Abstract:
Much of retrospection and reassessment of past undertakings and activities is
necessary so to gain confidence in future tasks and ensure success. Review is
mandatory and important in development projects. Many projects and programs suffer
losses because of lack of or inefficient and ineffective monitoring and evaluation.
Monitoring and evaluation helps in identifying the problem before hand or in time,
hence, taking precautionary and even corrective measures in time. To win the favor of
the donors and creditors, the evidence that the projects and programs initiated are
succeeding is inevitable. The type of evaluation depends on the object being evaluated
and the purpose of the evaluation. Monitoring and evaluation should be incorporated
in the planning of a project or program. The monitoring and evaluation process may
be presented in several phases. Methodology adopted was review of literature and the
conclusions were made based on arguments elicited in the paper.
