A handbook on monitoring and evaluation of agriculture and rural development projects

This handbook is directed primarily to those working within a specific project, whose task it is to operate the monitoring and/or evaluation systems, and secondly to those responsible for management of the project so that they may better assess what they can expect their monitoring and evaluation operations to provide. The handbook, which addresses agriculture and rural projects, elaborates on the concepts deemed essential for monitoring and evaluating projects during implementation and provides a framework for such systems. The handbook is broken down into the following 10 parts: Part I : the framework for monitoring and evaluation of agriculture and rural development projects; Part 2 : monitoring; Part 3 : evaluation: conceptual issues and basic objectives; Part 4 : the selection of appropriate variables and indicators; Part 5 : sources of data for monitoring and evaluation; Part 6 : direct observational methods; Part 7 : sampling and sample survey design for monitoring and evaluation; Part 8 : data collection by interview and measurement; Part 9 : data handling and analysis; and, Part 10 : data presentation.