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MONITORING TOOLKIT:

HOW TO DEVELOP A MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A COMMUNITY RIGHTS WORKERS PROGRAM

ICRW would like to thank the following organizations whose generous contributions made this toolkit possible: An Anonymous Donor Luwero Nakaseke Paralegals Association (LUNAPA) Uganda Land Alliance (ULA)

2010 International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Portions of this report may be reproduced without express permission of but with acknowledgment to ICRW.

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Design: Manu Badlani, By-line Design

PURPOSE OF THIS TOOLKIT

This toolkit is designed to introduce the reader to project monitoring and why it is an essential component of any community rights workers program. The reader is taken through a step-by-step process to develop a monitoring system. By following these steps, the reader can create a monitoring system specific to her/his own program. A Land Rights Organization in Uganda used this toolkit to design a monitoring system for its community rights workers program in Luwero district. Its experience is used as an example throughout the toolkit to provide a real-world illustration of the process. Though qualitative monitoring and feedback sessions with rights workers are also important sources of valuable information, this toolkit focuses on quantitative monitoring to understand the program and community needs.

INTRODUCTION

Monitoring is the repeated assessment of ongoing program activities to describe what the program is doing. Monitoring answers the “who,” “what,” “when,” “where” and “how” of a program: “What activities are carried out?” “Who is responsible for the activities?” “When and where do activities take place?” and “How or by what methods are activities carried out?” By regularly tracking the activities and performance of a program throughout its life, monitoring can explain what services a program is providing, how it is carried out, and what populations are benefiting. Organizations monitor their programs to understand the “big...