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Three Approaches to Monitoring: Feedback Systems, Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Logical Frameworks

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  • Alex Jacobs
  • Chris Barnett
  • Richard Ponsford

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This article compares key attributes, strengths and weaknesses of three different approaches to monitoring development interventions: the logical framework approach, participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) and feedback systems. Academic and practitioner literature describes how logframes meet the needs of senior decision‐makers to summarise, organise and compare projects. PM&E meets the needs of field staff to work sensitively with intended beneficiaries and support their learning and empowerment. Feedback systems appear to link the two, providing performance data for managers and creating incentives for implementing staff to focus on their intended beneficiaries. Feedback systems build on the rich heritage of PM&E and are compatible with logframes. They may help provide a manageable and effective approach to accountability that links the means and the ends of development interventions. Feedback systems are at an early stage of development. There is a lot to learn about how and where they work best.

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  • Alex Jacobs & Chris Barnett & Richard Ponsford, 2010. "Three Approaches to Monitoring: Feedback Systems, Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Logical Frameworks," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(6), pages 36-44, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:41:y:2010:i:6:p:36-44
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    1. Katsutoshi Fushimi, 2022. "Perceived Home and Host Country Institutional Environment Pressures by Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency's Constituents," Working Papers 228, JICA Research Institute.
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