An Assessment of Monitoring and Evaluation practices of Local NGO’s: Case study of Nutrition Plus Holistic Home Care
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2017-06-03
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This research had the general objective of assessing the monitoring and evaluation practice of
projects conducted by local NGO’s by taking one Local NGO as a case study (NPHHC). To
achieve this objective the research used a descriptive research design which used both primary
and secondary data collection method. For the primary data the research used questionnaire
and interview and for the secondary the research employed document reviews. The research
employed purposive or judgmental sampling technique and selected 22 sample respondents out
of the 54 employees at NPHHC, the primary data gathered through the questionnaire was
analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) and the results were presented
using tables, frequencies and percentages and charts. The research found that the monitoring
and evaluation practices of the organization has many ineffectiveness, while it has a good
monitoring and evaluation plan which incorporates specific and measurable objectives, data
collection methods, frequencies of data collection and personnel assigned for M&E, it lack to
plan for dissemination of result and it also lacks usage of lessons learned for decision making. In
addition while Indicators are set for objectives, activities and inputs there are no indicators that
measure the result of the interventions. The study also found that baseline data collected are
moderately utilized through the project lifecycle and frameworks are only employed if the donor
requests for it, similarly evaluations are only conducted by donor or government and not the
organization. The study recommends that the organization conducts income generating activities
to reduce the dependency on donor, provide trainings for the staff and build capacity and
expertise and mainly establish its own standardized monitoring and evaluation frameworks and
system
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Local NGO