An Assessment Of Monitoring And Evaluation Practice Of United States Agency For Development Loan Guaranteed Agribusiness Projects: A Case Study Of Coffee Processing And Exporting Business Project
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2019-07
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Addis Ababa University
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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are important management tools to track your progress and facilitate decision making. It is a system that is designed to address the “so what” question if it was result-based. Monitoring and evaluation allow organizations like USAID to answer questions like: What development interventions make a difference? Is the project having the intended results? What can be done differently to better meet goals and objectives? Based on census survey data obtained from twenty nine project personnel in the program, descriptive analysis was used to identify elements below a mean of three. This research paper highlights the planning, implementation & best practices of a project M&E and key challenges that are faced by project managers in order to enhance the chances of project success. Based the interpretation of the findings the current M&E system is constrained by SMART indicators, consistent stakeholder’s involvement, human capacity building plan, advocacy, communications & culture for M&E, emphasis on efficiency & cost-effectiveness, clarity & completeness of performance indicators, monitoring of ‘other influencers’/exogenous indicators and clearly defined objectives & appropriate indicators. All this combinations will not result in sustaining the longevity of interventions. And to ensure that, result based monitoring and evaluation should be employed. In doing so, it will improve the performance of organizations in seeking greater efficiency and effective use of resources
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seeking greater efficiency, Monitoring and Evaluation, objectives & appropriate indicators