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1-A) Collecting Information or Data Is Just One Part of The Process of Monitoring and Evaluation. What Is Meant by Data Analysis?

Data analysis is the process of evaluating data using analytical and statistical tools to discover useful information and aid in business decision making. It involves reflecting on the needs of the evaluation, collating the information quantitatively and qualitatively, describing the facts that emerge, and interpreting the significance of the data and why things happened as they did. There are several methods of data analysis including data mining, text analytics, business intelligence and data visualization. Monitoring and evaluation results can be used to improve project interventions by keeping staff in a learning mode, strengthen projects institutionally by communicating results to stakeholders, and contribute to global understanding of what works by sharing results across different projects.

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1-A) Collecting Information or Data Is Just One Part of The Process of Monitoring and Evaluation. What Is Meant by Data Analysis?

Data analysis is the process of evaluating data using analytical and statistical tools to discover useful information and aid in business decision making. It involves reflecting on the needs of the evaluation, collating the information quantitatively and qualitatively, describing the facts that emerge, and interpreting the significance of the data and why things happened as they did. There are several methods of data analysis including data mining, text analytics, business intelligence and data visualization. Monitoring and evaluation results can be used to improve project interventions by keeping staff in a learning mode, strengthen projects institutionally by communicating results to stakeholders, and contribute to global understanding of what works by sharing results across different projects.

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1- a)Collecting information or data is just one part of the process of monitoring and

evaluation. What is meant by data analysis?

After you have collected your data you will need to try to understand what the data is
telling you. Data analysis is that process of blending and understanding the information given
by them. It can be seen as a series of steps that must be followed. In his article intitled «What
Is Data Analysis and Why Is It Important?», Jay Sridhar define the data analysis as the process
of evaluating data using analytical and statistical tools to discover useful information and aid
in business decision making. There are several data analysis methods including data mining,
text analytics, business intelligence and data visualization.

We can identify more than four steps of data analysis :


 Reflecting – this step presents the needs of the evaluation and what the data
analysis must answer ;
 Collating – which involves bringing together the information. Quantitative data
may need to be organised through statistical analysis or using basic calculations.
Qualitative information needs to be organised thematically ;
 Describing – you should provide a description of the facts which have emerged
from the information gathered ;
 Interpreting – this step deals with trying to understand the significance of
your data and why things happened as they did.

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Monitoring and evaluation: a guide for community projects, November 2012 - Geoff Bates,
Lisa Jones -Centre for Public Health, Liverpool JMU

1 – (b) State any three uses of monitoring and evaluation results.


There are many uses of monitoring and evaluation results. The results can be use by the
project team to improve the project interventions, they can be communicated to the public
to search the backing and strenghen the project institutionally and they can contribute to
the global understanding of what works.
 Improve the project interventions- using the M&E results keeps the staff of the
project in a «learning mode». It helps them to understand about how and why the
project is working and to make the decisions about the best use of resources ;
 Strenghen the project institutionally – the M&E results can be communicated at the
local level, state level and national level to help the stakeholders and the community
to understand what the program is doing, how well it is meeting its objectives and
whether there are ways that progress can be improved. Sharing results can help
ensure social, financial and political support.
 Global understanding of what works – the experts and project workers can use the
M&E results of different projects to realise what strategies are having or not having
the intended impact and under which circumstances. Sharing these results
contributes to the global understanding of what works and what doesn’t work.

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