PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION- A PRIMER

by Henrietta Newton Martin
PROJECT MONITORING AND EVALUATION- A PRIMER
Author: Henrietta Newton Martin
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2022-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3755417340
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This Handbook is best suited for every student of Project Management as it is perspicuously crafted to the understanding of the students of Project Management. Project Monitoring , Control and Evaluation is a sine qua non of every project , be it a minor project or a major one, big or small, irrespective of the type of project.There can be no succesful projects without iterative monitoring, evaluation and control. Thereby project monitoring and project evaluation are the iterative strategic tools in project management. It is endeavoured to keep the content as simple as possible; Brevity in expression does not in any way mean dearth of available material or that the allied topics are insignificant. The purpose of brevity is solely to encapsulate the principles adumbrated in this book in a perspicuous manner. This easy-to-understand edition is a recommended must-have for every student of Proejct Management.

Developmental Evaluation

by Michael Quinn Patton
Developmental Evaluation
Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010-06-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1606238868
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Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.

Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs

by James F. McKenzie
Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs
Author: James F. McKenzie
Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Health education
ISBN: 9780321495112
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Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer provides students with a comprehensive overview of the practical and theoretical skills needed to plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs in a variety of settings. The Fifth Edition features updated information throughout, including new theories and models such as the Healthy Action Process Approach (HAPA) and the Community Readiness Model (CRM), sections on grant writing and preparing a budget, real-life examples of marketing principles and processes, and a new classification system for evaluation approaches and designs. It has been thoroughly reviewed by both practitioners and professors to reflect the latest trends in the field. "I too just took the CHES exam in April and passed...What I found to be most helpful was reading over "Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer (4th Ed.)" by Mckenzie, Neiger, & Smeltzer. I think it would give individuals who have been out of school for a while a good "refresher" on not only the terminology, but also core concepts." Joseph D. Visker, MS,CHES, Department of Health Education & Recreation Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Monitoring and Evaluation

by Bongs Lainjo
Monitoring and Evaluation
Author: Bongs Lainjo
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990977834
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Most manuals currently available emphasize either M and E or Evaluation. Here is a primer with a significant difference. If you are already an expert or still a neophyte with a strong urge to improve your skills including those who have always wanted to know but feared asking, here is a manual for you that is unique, inclusive, and practical in several extraordinary ways.The primer covers a range of concepts, illustrations and real life cases studies. The vignette on the cover is a comprehensive example of what it is all about.The handbook leads the reader from a program management life cycle to strategic frameworks to a model designed by the author on performance indicators quality control including case studies. It has been implemented in Asia and Africa with an oral presentation made at a Canadian Evaluation Conference in Toronto, Canada. The real life cases include basic and advanced studies like randomized control trials using a quasi experimental design conducted during one of the author's evaluation assignments.The data management systems (DMS) section follows the same approach above with a framework that includes all the relevant DMS components including sections on basic statistics complemented with illustrations and more real life case studies. Concepts, illustrations, and cases cover statistical means, sampling protocols and student tests among others.

Utilization Focused Evaluation

by Ricardo Ramírez
Utilization Focused Evaluation
Author: Ricardo Ramírez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2013
Genre: Evaluation research (Social action programs)
ISBN: 9789839054613
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Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management

by William H.A. Johnson
Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management
Author: William H.A. Johnson
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1606495976
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Projects have become the de facto method of implementing business strategy and operations. As such, understanding how projects relate to business strategy and managing projects strategically is increasingly important to effective and efficient business management This book is designed as a short and concise treatise on how to go about doing that. The authors start by figuring out how the project relates to the rest of the business and environment and what separates it from other projects and functions. They go on to discuss how you can use principles of strategic management to better organize and manage the various projects you may be dealing with on a daily basis so that they are strategic in nature. In essence, this book details how to approach answering the important strategic questions in project management like—“Why is the project being implemented? How does the project relate to the major strategic goals of the organization? How do we accomplish the performance goals for the project so that they help achieve the major strategic goals of the organization?”

A Practitioners’ Manual on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Projects

by Dharmendra Chandurkar
A Practitioners’ Manual on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Projects
Author: Dharmendra Chandurkar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443896098
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This volume has been developed as a step-by-step guide for professionals involved in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating developmental interventions. It introduces and elucidates the key concepts and procedures involved, starting from the fundamentals of project design and management, the basics of monitoring and evaluation, and the development of a performance monitoring plan to different approaches to monitoring, choosing appropriate evaluation designs, approaches to evaluation, the analysis of monitoring and evaluation, and finally implementing this information in a project environment. In order to provide further context, the manual uses real project examples which help in buttressing the understanding of the readers and enable adoption of these practices in such projects.

Utilization-Focused Evaluation

by Michael Quinn Patton
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1986
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:
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The second edition of Patton's classic text retains the practical advice, based on empirical observation and evaluation theory, of the original. It shows how to conduct an evaluation, from beginning to end, in a way that will be useful -- and actually used. Patton believes that evaluation epitomizes the challenges of producing and using information in the information age. His latest book includes new stories, new examples, new research findings, and more of Patton's evaluation humour. He adds to the original book's insights and analyses of the changes in evaluation during the past decade, including: the emergence of evaluation as a field of professional practice; articulation of standards for evaluation; a methodological synthesis of the qualitative versus quantitative debate; the tremendous growth of 'in-house' evaluations; and the cross-cultural development of evaluation as a profession. This edition also incorporates the considerable research done on utilization during the last ten years. Patton integrates diverse findings into a coherent framework which includes: articulation of utilization-focused evaluation premises; examination of the stakeholder assumption; and clarification of the meaning of utilization. --Publisher description.