{"id":52,"date":"2011-07-28T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/free-planning-monitoring-evaluating-for-devel"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:34:24","slug":"free-planning-monitoring-evaluating-for-devel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/07\/free-planning-monitoring-evaluating-for-devel\/","title":{"rendered":"Free: Planning, Monitoring &#038; Evaluating for Development Results (handbook)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another example of the plethora of free, detailed information available online to help nonprofits, NGOs, and other mission-based efforts. Various offices of the United Nations, as well as state and national governments all over the world, publish these kinds of materials online. Meeting government and international standards &#8211; even if you have nothing to do with the UN or government, even if you aren&#8217;t in a developing country, even if you work just locally and never internationally &#8211; is going to help your organization land grants \/ donations and build credibility.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/web.undp.org\/evaluation\/guidance.shtml#handbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handbook on Planning, Monitoring &amp; Evaluating for Development Results<\/a>, recently updated, addresses planning, monitoring, and evaluation in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)<\/a> and its evaluation policy. It provides practical tools to strengthen results-oriented planning, monitoring, and evaluation in UNDP &#8211; but <strong>anyone who works to improve communities anywhere will find this manual helpful<\/strong>. The contents include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planning, monitoring, and evaluation for development results<\/li>\n<li>Planning for results: Practical applications<\/li>\n<li>Planning for monitoring and evaluation<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring for results<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating for results<\/li>\n<li>Initiating and managing an evaluation<\/li>\n<li>Assuring the quality of evaluation design and methodology<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing the use of knowledge from monitoring and evaluation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s 220 pages long and available in English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>fundraising, fund, raising, donors, donations, funding, credibility, donating, evaluation, evaluating, planning, monitor, monitoring, design, project, program, programme, results, charities, charity, NGOs, non-governmental, organizations, nonprofit, civil, society, transparency, accounting, accountable<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another example of the plethora of free, detailed information available online to help nonprofits, NGOs, and other mission-based efforts. 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