Prepare the M&E reports

Prepare the Evaluation reports

Executing the M&E action

Attention: do not confuse project monitoring with project evaluation.

Project monitoring is identical with the measurement part of project performance measurement and belongs to the project execution and control phase of project management. Monitoring and reporting the project performance is to review the project progress against expected milestones, timelines and costs.The purpouse of reporting is to share the information required to manage Manage CSSQ (Cost, Scope, Schedule, and Quality). It is functional to the objective of delivering the project outputs with the expected quality and within the time and cost costrains defined in the project plan document.

Project evaluation is not a part of project execution but is a different phase of the programme cycle. Project evaluation is not done by the project manager but by the project sponsor (e.g. the Programme Manager, etc.) or by someone supporting her/him. It requires Project Status reports as a fundamental input. Its outputs are projects evaluation reports and program lessons learned.

Attention: do not confuse project performance with employee performance!

When monitoring and reporting the project performance you are comparing:

what the team implementing a project plan has achieved (in terms of reaching the expected milestones and deliver the expected project outputs within the decided schedule and budget definitions) and

the expected achievements as stated in the project plan document.

When monitoring and reporting the employee performance you are comparing

what the individual employee has achieved and

what the individual was supposed to achieve (on the basis of the agreed employee performance objectives.

Reporting project performance is also a component of project information distribution and is also an essential component for the following features of project execution.

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