Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation is part of the program that has its own challenges, due to the complexity of the future changes and the extent of the geographic work range of the partners. Monitoring and evaluation system, design and arrangement is conducted by independent organization, to monitor the progress compared to the logical framework. The monitoring and evaluation system will provide information on the progress and achievements of the program, problems to be anticipated, interesting and good lessons learned, and other occurrence each year. Stakeholders will further discuss and analyze the information generated and formulate the future strategy balancing the activities and the partnership.

There are two basic requirements in Monitoring and Evaluation implementation, based on the objective and the utilization of the monitoring results. First, short and medium term need, which includes reporting, administration and knowledge management required to track the progress of activities and program management. Second, long-term need, where the aim of monitoring is to measure the impact of the program to the beneficiaries, such as the economic development and poverty alleviation targets, and institutional and policy changes,in particular right and access to the forest resources; access to justice; access to financial support such as credits and business opportunities.

The result shall be used for more strategic objectives, such as to develop policy arguments, to influence government policy, to monitor the policy implementation and public oversight, to bring the knowledge management resulted from monitoring and evaluation into public discourse, and to provide recommendations to MFP management. For those reasons, MFP should be able to carry out effective monitoring and produce monitoring and evaluation concept, including M&E tools development that can be used to oversee the MFP II.

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