Tools for monitoring and evaluation

Logframer offers the following tools to design and manage your monitoring system:

Tools: Monitoring tool

The Monitoring tool is a very powerful and interactive tool. It allows you to monitor your project for its entire duration, using the different types of indicators you've selected. Basically, you'll get a complete monitoring and evaluation system at one click of a button.

The Monitoring tool is a report that you can export to MS Excel. In the Import/export section of the File toolbar, click on the Create Monitoring Tool button.

You can select if you want to view all indicators or the indicators of a specific level (goals; purposes; outputs; activities). You can also select a specific target group, or the indicators for all target groups.
Note that it may take some time to export this report, especially if you have many indicators. When Logframer opens Excel, don't do anything in Excel (clicking in a cell etc.) because this will terminate the exporting process.

One final remark is that the different scales (Thurstone, Likert, Guttman) are only partially included, in the sense that you can only register the total scores. The actual tables with the statements and response scales are not included. The idea here is that you print the list of indicators, fill the forms out in the field and then you enter the results in this table.

Monitoring tool exported to MS Excel


 

Tools: Questionnaires

Underneath the usual settings of the Print Settings bar, you can set different options to select what information you want to include in the questionnaire.

You can select:

  • Which indicators you want to include, meaning from which level of your logframe: impact indicators, outcome indicators, output indicators, activity indicators (progress indicators) or all indicators.
  • To which target group the indicators belong: when designing indicators, you can set to which specific target group each indicator belongs. This way you can create different documents (questionnaires) for different target groups, only showing the relevant indicators for that specific group. Using the Target group setting, you can select any of the target groups you've identified, or else choose to include all target groups.
  • Which type of information to include in the document:
    • Purposes and outputs: if you uncheck these options, you will only see the actual questions (indicators) on your form. If you check them, they will be used as headers.
    • Responses: if you check this option, you will get the options lists and space to enter the responses to the questions. If you uncheck this option, only the actual indicators will be listed.
    • Value ranges and targets: if you check this option, the value ranges and targets will be included in curly brackets {}. If you include the value range, the person completing the list will be able to see what minimum and maximum values he or she has to respect. Including the targets is more for internal use - you probably don't want the respondents to know what the 'right' answer is.
       

Tools: Performance Measurement Framework

The Performance Measurement Framework is tool used for Results Based Management. It is a table that presents an overview about:

  • The expected goals, purposes or outputs
  • How you will follow-up progress (indicators)
  • The target type: score/beneficiary or of the whole target group
  • The baseline and targets
  • What data sources (verification sources) you will use
  • How you will collect data
  • At what frequency
  • Who's responsible for the data collection.

The Performance Measurement Framework is a report that you can either print or export to MS Word or MS Excel.

You can select if you want to view all indicators or the indicators of a specific level (goals; purposes; outputs; activities).

PMF exported to Excel