Home Office Support The [name of activity] receives technical support from the home office (HO) M&E staff. [Name of IM awardee] in Washington has assigned a long-term M&E expert to the project. His/her most essential services or responsibilities will be to ensure that high standards are maintained and activities are consistent with best practices in the field. From project start-up, the HO provides specialized assistance in finalizing the M&E Plan and offer specialized training to the M&E team, when needed. REPORTING DATA SCHEDULE (Guidance: Provide a matrix (Gantt chart) indicating the planed tasks, frequency, timeline, responsible persons, etc., for performance monitoring. If the monitoring schedule is already included in the workplan, relevant information may be copied and pasted here from it.) Describe the various reports (with timing) that will be provided to USAID and what relevant M&E type content will be included in each. Include details of how USAID will receive indicator data (Quarterly PDT for example), evaluation data, DQA-type data and data from special studies, assessments and other non-indicator type data. Discuss relevant database systems for M&E data including databases, USAID’s TraiNet, etc. State that the project will cooperate with non-scheduled requests for specific M&E data updates. Figure 3. insert Gantt chart here Sample text: Activity will produce monthly and annual reports. third month or quarterly Activity will collate – – and update the performance data and review this with the COR. This will provide significant input to the quarterly update of the work plan schedule as activities planned for the following quarter in a general schedule are able to be scheduled more exactly. Activity will provide quarterly Performance Summaries for the Mission. At the end of the fiscal year, the activity will submit an annual performance report including a compilation of the year’s actual achievement versus targeted for each indicator as well as explanatory narrative. All reports are presented in to the COR before final submission.
Home Office Support The [name of activity] receives technical support from the home office (HO) M&E staff. [Name of IM awardee] in Washington has assigned a long-term M&E expert to the project. His/her most essential services or responsibilities will be to ensure that high standards are maintained and activities are consistent with best practices in the field. From project start-up, the HO provides specialized assistance in finalizing the M&E Plan and offer specialized training to the M&E team, when needed. REPORTING DATA SCHEDULE (Guidance: Provide a matrix (Gantt chart) indicating the planed tasks, frequency, timeline, responsible persons, etc., for performance monitoring. If the monitoring schedule is already included in the workplan, relevant information may be copied and pasted here from it.) Describe the various reports (with timing) that will be provided to USAID and what relevant M&E type content will be included in each. Include details of how USAID will receive indicator data (Quarterly PDT for example), evaluation data, DQA-type data and data from special studies, assessments and other non-indicator type data. Discuss relevant database systems for M&E data including databases, USAID’s TraiNet, etc. State that the project will cooperate with non-scheduled requests for specific M&E data updates. Figure 3. insert Gantt chart here Sample text: Activity will produce monthly and annual reports. third month – or quarterly – Activity will collate and update the performance data and review this with the COR. This will provide significant input to the quarterly update of the work plan schedule as activities planned for the following quarter in a general schedule are able to be scheduled more exactly. Activity will provide quarterly Performance Summaries for the Mission. At the end of the fiscal year, the activity will submit an annual performance report including a compilation of the year’s actual achievement versus targeted for each indicator as well as explanatory narrative. All reports are presented in to the COR before final submission.
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