IMAS Mine Risk Education Best Practice Guidebook 7: Monitoring

This guidebook is part of a series of twelve best practice guidebooks that provide practical advice for implementing the mine risk education (MRE) component of the International Mine Action Standards. The series addresses a wide range of issues, including coordination of mine risk education, dissemination of public information, implementing projects, establishing community mine action liaisons, and mine risk education in emergencies.

Guidebook 7, shows how to monitor your project or programme and also discusses how to plan and integrate monitoring into a project or programme's routine activities.

Section 1 explains what monitoring is: what its purpose is and how it differs from evaluation.
Section 2 reviews briefly how a monitoring system fits into the project cycle.
Section 3 describes what issues should be covered by a monitoring system.
Section 4 describes the core elements in developing a monitoring system, including who should monitor, when should monitoring take place, and the need for appropriate indicators within a monitoring system.
Section 5 stresses the importance of using the results of monitoring to improve project or programme performance. It also describes how to feedback the results to donors, beneficiaries and other stakeholders.