Rick James
OPS No. 36, 2001, 42 pages, ISBN 1-897748-64-7, £8.95
Capacity-building and monitoring and evaluation have become two of the most important priorities of the development community during the last decade. Yet they have tended to operate in relative isolation from each other. In particular capacity-building programmes have been consistently weak in monitoring the impact of their work. This publication aims to help NGOs and donors involved in capacity-building develop appropriate, cost-effective and practical systems for monitoring and evaluation. While not underestimating the complexity of this task, this publication puts forward some practical guidelines for designing monitoring and evaluation systems based on experiences with three organisations in different parts of Africa.