To add indicators to a goal, purpose, output or activity, you just start typing in the empty cell to its right in the Indicators column.
Indicators can have sub-indicators. This enables you to split more complex indicators into their basic components. You can add as many levels of sub-indicators as you want.
Adding sub-indicators and parent indicators:
The total value or total score of the indicator is calculated automatically based on the values of its sub-indicators:
For each type of indicator you can register a baseline value. The baseline is the measurement you make before your project (or at least any of the project's activities) starts.
Some types of indicators use targets, while others have none. If you use targets, you can specify different targets according to the calendar of the Monitoring Deadlines.
Some information can be found or registered centrally, for instance impact indicators that take information from government statistics. These can be entered by someone at your office.
In other cases you may have different teams in the field that register information about their beneficiaries or intervention zone. To get the total results at project level you may have to make a total of the numbers of the various teams.
It's also possible that you need to register information for every beneficiary (or a sample of the group of beneficiaries). The total number/score for that indicator at project level is then calculated as the total sum of the beneficiaries.
In the Indicator Details pane, select the Registration tab. Use the Registration drop-down box to select one of these three options:
Select the target group for which the indicator will be used. You can also use an indicator for all target groups
Use the Aggregate drop-down list to choose how you want to aggregate the information from the different teams or beneficiaries:
For value-based indicators, you can choose how you will define your targets:
In the Indicator Details pane, select the Scoring tab and go to the Targeting box (on the right). Select one of the three options.
To set the actual targets, go to the Targets tab.
If you use a simple target value, you can enter it directly in the cells
If you use a value range, a pop-up window will appear (double-click on the cell if it doesn't) where you can set a minimum value and/or a maximum value. To do so, select the sign (<; >; <=; >=) and enter a value. If you don't select a sign, the min/max value won't be used:
For questions with targets, you can choose which (total) value the indicator will produce:
To set the actual scores: