The Difference between Monitoring and Evaluation
Genuine Evaluation, a blog by Patricia J. Rogers and E. Jane Davidson about evaluation, posted on the differences between monitoring and evaluation. The two terms are often used together and a distinction is not always made between them. Davidson describes this in the excerpt below.
I often see the terms monitoring and evaluation used in the same breath, and have heard many comment that M&E is usually much more M than E.
It seems to me that the lack of a clear distinction between the two means that evaluation is getting shortchanged.
So, what is the difference?
Monitoring and evaluation ask and answer very different kinds of questions – and therefore need different methodologies to generate the answers to those questions.
The full blog post provides an in-depth look at how monitoring and evaluation differ. Read the post on the Genuine Evaluation site.
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Dr.Raziq Asar.
February, 7, 20014 at 11;20 am.
Thank you very much for good explanation between these two terms.
To me one of the biggest differences between monitoring and evaluation is:
Monitoring is looking forward and evaluation is looking backward. For example, presume, we have a patient in a hospital with critical condition. Although, all doctors did their best if cure him, unfortunately he died after five days staying there. Checking the patient condition in a daily basis, and adjusting treatment plan accordingly, was monitoring. On the contrary, now we are investigating to find the reason why he died, like doing autopsy, reviewing his disease history and treatment plan, is an evaluation.
Thanks ,
Dr. Raziq Asar/ Kabul- Afghanistan.
This changes my attitude