De Coninck - Planning, monitoring and evaluation in developing organisations : sharing training and facilitation experiences

PLANNING, MONITORING
AND EVALUATION IN DEVELOPMENT
ORGANISATIONS

Despite the many manuals and toolkits available, PME continues to pose difficulties to project planners and managers. In this volume, De Coninck et al. offer a user-focused, practice-grounded way to approach PME training and facilitation in civil society organisations. Useful suggestions, like adopting a total organisation approach to PMEthus reconciling PME and organisational learning, and many examples taken from the authors extensive field experiencemake this volume provocative and supportive reading for PME practitioners.

Teobaldo Pinzas , Director, ETC-Andes, Peru

This is one of the most accessible documents currently available for improving PME skills and systems of organizations working in the field of international development. This book will be useful for anyone working within NGOs as well as for facilitators of (short) training courses on results-based management.

Kees Biekart , Senior Lecturer, Institute of Social Studies (ISS),
The Hague, The Netherlands

Amazing document, especially considering the clever presentation of practical and conceptual material nicely intertwined with captivating light touches.

Tom Olila , Consultant in Organisation Capacity Building
and Finance Management, Kenya

An inspiring book for development practitioners, facilitators, trainers and consultants. A comprehensive source of inspiration and information for everyone involved in developing and improving PME in organisations. The book provides an open-minded and thorough reflection about PME concepts from an organisational perspective. It offers a wide range of practical experiences that are presented in a clear-cut, concrete and applicable manner. Essential reading for development professionals, a book to use and refer to over and over!

Jan Kuyper , Management for Development Foundation,
Training & Consultancy, The Netherlands

This book has synthesised the real PME experiences of NGOs across continents. It captures a wide perspective of PME, with a total organization approach, instead of a fragmented and reductionist approach of a single programme or activity. It strongly advocates and assists NGOs to customise their PME system as it considers each NGO as unique in its context. The book lays strong emphasis on learning and a process approach for PME. To learn, prove, and improve, it encourages formal, informal and participatory PME approaches. The constant learning process thus becomes a central theme of PME. Every NGO and all their stakeholders would immensely benefit from this book to enhance effectiveness, sustainability and a sense of programme ownership by the stakeholders.

Malla Reddy , Director, Accion Fraterna, India

This book is a valued addition to the available resources in the PME world, an interesting text for PME facilitators and those who are concerned with result-oriented planning, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions, whether at programme or organisational level. It offers a good combination of process-focused field examples and conceptual frameworks, without loading the concepts with theories on planning, monitoring or evaluation. The practical tips bring the readers to real life situations, as the analysis is supported by examples from various contexts across Asia, Africa and Europe. The book can be used both as a training guide and a handbook on planning PME for proving and improving.

M. Ehsanur Rahman , Deputy Director,
Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Bangladesh

PLANNING, MONITORING

AND EVALUATION IN DEVELOPMENT

ORGANISATIONS

SHARING TRAINING AND FACILITATION EXPERIENCES

J OHN D E C ONINCK , K HILESH C HATURVEDI ,

B EN H AAGSMA , H ANS G RIFFIOEN

AND M ARIECKE VAN DER G LAS

Copyright IC Consult, 2008

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Planning, monitoring and evaluation in development organisations: sharing training and facilitation experiences/by John De Coninck (et al.).

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Economic development projectsManagement.2. Economic assistance.3. Non-governmental organisationsManagement.4 Non-profit organisationsManagement.I. De Coninck, John.

HD75.8.P625338.91068 ' 3dc2220082008014315

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