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Assignment Lesson 7.

1. A baseline survey it's a kind of survey that is being conducted during the monitoring and
evaluation process to define the impact of a project. It should take place when the project is
being initiated so at the beginning of the project but after a decision of implementing it.
Baselines surveys are important to any project for they are the starting point for a project.
Through its results, a baseline serves as a benchmark for all future activities, where project
managers can refer to for the purposes of making project management decisions. Projects are
designed to deliver measurable results, and a good baseline survey must answer the
counterfactual so as to measure and distinguish those results from other variables. Therefore
conducting base line survey before a particular project has commenced has the following
importance; it helps to determine what variables to measure, i.e., specifying the substantive
content of the study. In academic research, this usually means elaborating a set of hypotheses.
By contrast, for the type of research necessary for a monitoring and evaluation system, the step
consists of determining what information policymakers, program planners and administrators
require in order to ascertain whether or not the program is functioning properly and why this is
so. This step is perhaps the most difficult since programs do not always specify their objectives
clearly and in measurable terms. Indeed, many of the objectives of a given program are not
even stated formally.

2. Monitoring is the systematic gathering and analyzing of information that will help measure
progress on an aspect of your project. Ongoing checks against progress over time may include
monitoring water quality in a catchment or monetary expenditure against the project budget.
Monitoring is not evaluation as such but is usually a critical part of your evaluation process and
should therefore be included at your project planning stage.

3. In addition to daily control over operations, deadlines, and any problems that may arise, the
institution promoting a development program, or an administration responsible for policy
implementation, should also perform periodic evaluations of the program or policy as a whole.
This is needed to gauge the results obtained by each stage of implementation of the program or
policy, within its economic, social, cultural, institutional, and environmental context. A system of
appropriate indicators must be developed for the purposes of such evaluations - which relates
directly to project monitoring. The system of indicators should be divided into two sub-systems.
The first of the two is composed of those indicators that allow a sort of ‘reality monitoring’.

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