M&E Plan Estimator - Standard of Proof

1. How large or complex is the programme, policy, activity or intervention (the 'evaluand') ?

The evaluand is small, involving few people or groups in the delivery, and benefiting small cohorts (e.g. pilot-size initiatives, or a simple activity or output).

The evaluand is simple in design and delivery, but involves many people; or it is a complex design involving few people.

The evaluand is large and complex, involving many different components of a system or systems, and/or across sectors or populations of people

2. What is the purpose of your monitoring and evaluation activities?

Funders want to decide about ongoing funding decisions and understand what was achieved through the evaluand.

Our delivery teams and/or designers want to learn to make adjustments to the evaluand.

People want to periodically track progress against a range of indicators.

Advice and technical support for our team, or capability building in relation to monitoring and evaluation.

Other purposes

3. How well is the evaluand understood and documented?

We understand the activities, the expected outputs or deliverables, and what and what we expect to achieve as a result. This is well documented in our logic model or theory of change.

We need our activities, the expected outputs and outcomes to be pulled together as a logic model of theory of change.

4. How would you like to be involved in the design of the monitoring and evaluation plan?

We want an evaluation specialist to design the plan independently, with minimal effort from our team(s).

Our team wants to contribute information for the plan, but we want an evaluation specialist to design the plan.

We want the plan to be co-designed with an evaluation specialist.

5. How many people in your team(s) would like to be involved in developing the monitoring and evaluation plan?

1 or 2 people

3 to 6 people

Likely more than 6 people

6. Do you know what questions you'd like answered?

Yes, and this is agreed with all those involved.

Yes, but this is not yet agreed internally.

No.

7. Do you know what success looks like for the evaluand?

Yes, and this is agreed with all those involved.

Yes, but this is not yet agreed.

No.

8. Do you know the range of indicators that would suggest the evaluand has achieved what was expected?

Yes, and these indicators are clearly defined.

Yes, but these indicators are not yet documented or agreed.

9. Do you have relevant data and data systems available?

We have a lot of relevant data available.

We have no relevant data available and/or data systems collecting information during the delivery.

We have some relevant data and/or data systems available, but we may need more

It's unclear if we have relevant data and data systems.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan Estimator