Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results

This handbook, updated edition of the 2002 edition, seeks to address planning, monitoring, and evaluation in the context of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its evaluation policy. These documents provide the prescriptive content on what needs to be done, by whom, and by when. This handbook complements this content by providing UNDP programme units with guidance on 'how to' and practical tools to strengthen results-oriented planning, monitoring, and evaluation in UNDP.

The guiding framework of UNDP for planning, monitoring, and evaluation is provided in the ‘Programme and Operations Policy and Procedure’ (POPP), the evaluation policy , and the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) 'Standards for Evaluation in the UN System'.

The contents include the following:

1. Planning, monitoring, and evaluation for development results
   
2. Planning for results: Practical applications
   
3. Planning for monitoring and evaluation
   
4. Monitoring for results
   
5. Evaluating for results
   
6. Initiating and managing an evaluation
   
7. Assuring the quality of evaluation design and methodology
   
8. Enhancing the use of knowledge from monitoring and evaluation