USAID: Results Orientation and Communication
Summary
Benefits
- Promotes accountability for impact, not just effort
- Promotes analysis of mechanisms, to identify appropriate points for measurement
- Participatory approaches promote good/better practice
- Promotes documentation
- for advocacy
- for fund raising
Dangers
- Casual models are under development and sometimes hotly contested
- Available indicators can drive programming
- 'Quantiphrenia' can drive indicator selection and programming
- Resources devoted, or diverted, to evaluation - how much is enough?
- Large investment needed in capacity building for monitoring and evaluation.
Source
USAID Power point presentation: Behavior Change Interventions (BCI), April 1999.
Placed on the Communication Initiative site August 30 2001
Last Updated May 14 2008
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