What We Do
Monitoring & Evaluation
When looking to improve accountability, decision making and program development, Monitoring and Evaluation tools are extremely helpful. They involve an assessment of the appropriateness, efficiency and effectiveness of a given project/program. Monitoring and Evaluation serves as a guide for project implementation and management, it provides stakeholders with information on the progress being made toward the achievement of objectives and any remaining disparity between targets and actual achievements. This important method identifies where a program is heading, how it will get there, whether it is using resources in the most cost-effective manner.
Using the project evaluation, we identify what is positively and/or negatively influencing target groups, individual households, institutions and the overall environment. It allows us to better understand to what extent the project results have been achieved and what impacts they have had in general, and on the target group in particular.
We cover the following services:
- Monitoring
- Evaluation
- Data quality review
- Program/project monitoring
- Development of monitoring plans
- Designing and implementing monitoring systems, including identifying indicators and data sources to assess outputs, outcomes and impacts
- Development of key performance indicators
- Development of monitoring and evaluation capacities
- Performance indicators
- Theory-based evaluation
- Formal surveys
- Rapid appraisal methods
- Participatory methods
- Public expenditure tracking surveys
- Impact evaluation
- Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Quality and completeness of data
- Data collection instruments
- Survey sampling methodologies
- Data collection procedures
- Data entry, storage, retrieval and documentation processes
- Data manipulation and analyses
- Data dissemination
Monitoring
The objective of the monitoring system is to learn from experience, increase internal and external accountability of performance, make informed decisions and maximize project performance. It is a means of checking how the action plan's implementation is progressing.
AIMSS offers the following services:
Evaluation
To assess the outcomes of a project, program or activity, program evaluation is a highly effective tool. This assessment is carried out from a perspective of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the given intervention. Our methods include quantitative and qualitative analysis, randomized pre and pro test evaluation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, ex-post comparison, and rapid assessment ex-post impact evaluations. The services range from small-scale rapid assessment and participatory appraisals to large-scale sample surveys.
AIMSS's evaluation tools include:
Data Quality Review
The data quality review is a key element of any smoothly functioning Monitoring and Evaluation system. Monitoring and Evaluation data are an important source of information to ascertain the progress being made towards the achievement of project results and also provide support to project managers in decision making. Ensuring that the data is of a high quality is essential to maintain confidence in decisions made based on the given data. Our data quality tools and mechanisms review data from the point of view of validity, reliability, timeliness, precision and integrity. The review covers: