Evaluating programmes

The process of evaluation in project or programme development is considered central to the development process. Two of the main approaches used are; the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) and Objective Oriented Intervention Planning (OOIP), both of which provide tools for planning, monitoring and evaluating development programmes and projects.

1. Planning
2. Monitoring current performance
3. Improving programmes
4. Assessing organizational performance
5. Assessing needs-resources

1. Planning community programmes
2. Improving impact analysis of programmes
3. Formulating management and training
4. Evaluating programmes truthfully
5. Evaluating family planning
6. Encouraging donor evaluations
7. Designing youth programmes
8. Designing sex education programmes
9. Assessing development assistance

1. Improving implementation of programmes against problems
2. Extending successful projects

1. Using critical path method
2. Publishing relevant project data
3. Producing informative project descriptions
4. Planning projects
5. Improving project programmes
6. Developing operational research
7. Demanding evaluation
8. Creating evaluation methods

1. Avoiding evaluation

1. Inappropriate management of development projects
2. Inappropriate design of development projects
3. Inadequate implementation of plans and programmes against problems
4. Inadequate health services
5. Inadequate family planning programmes
6. Inadequate education system
7. Government incompetence
8. Falsification of programme evaluations