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Published By: HVAP on: 2014-11-17
From 12th to 14th November 2014, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has organized workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation for IFAD related program staff in Kathmandu, Nepal. With the support from FAO, IFAD set up the workshop for the staff from HVAP, WUPAP, PAF, KUBK and LFLP. From HVAP, Senior Agriculture Officer-Mr. Hari Prasad Gurung, Planning Officer-Mr. Shirish Pun, M&E Expert-Mr. Krishna Thapa, MIS Expert-Mr. Hikmat Rokaya and Knowledge Management Communication Advisor-Mr. Bhakta Karki and Liasion Officer-Mr. Govinda Pokharel participated on this workshop.
The purpose of the workshop was to promote effective M&E practices and tools in IFAD funded projects and critically discuss on field based M&E issues. From the workshop, M&E, MIS and KM Expert and Program Manager and other staff learnt how to set up a framework for monitoring and evaluation for their organization and explored M&E options for the work of respective IFAD funded 5 different projects. Some of the main lessons learnt were that monitoring and evaluation must be structured and must be planned for at the start of a programme or project.
The session was facilitated by Senior M&E Specialist-Jim Hancock, Maria Donnat and Dr. Krishna Babu Joshi and Bashu Aryal. According to them monitoring is a continuous exercise to answer the question ‘are we on track?’ whereas the periodic evaluation exercise, mostly at the end of a programme or project, answers the question ‘how have we done?’. As such, monitoring can help the organization define corrective actions before it is too late, whereas evaluation provides lessons learnt for the organization’s future. "All the IFAD projects have their own M&E frameworks, I hope this workshop will help to come up with a common framework”, said facilitator Jim Hancock.