Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan

A Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan is your project or program’s roadmap to implementing your Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning
related activities as intended, in a timely and efficient fashion, and to ensure continuous
learning throughout the project and program cycle. Specifically, organizations
defines a Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan as a management tool that can be used to monitor and evaluate
interventions, projects or programs. organizations’ Essential Standards states that
all projects/programs should be covered by a Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan with appropriate resources
in place to implement the plan. Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plans come in different forms and agencies refer to such tools using a variety of
terms, including M&E Plan, Performance Monitoring Plan, Monitoring Matrix and
others. However, a Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan should not be confused with a project or program
framework or results framework, a tool for project planning, design, management, and
performance assessment that illustrates project elements (such as goals, objectives,
outputs, outcomes), their causal relationships, and the external factors that may influence
success or failure of the project. Please refer to Session 3 on program frameworks,
objectives and indicators to learn more about program frameworks.
Overall, a comprehensive Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan demonstrates the linkages between the activities we
implement and the changes we seek to achieve. A comprehensive Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning plan simplifies
complex information by transforming programming strategy into concrete and practical
activities. It forces us to think systematically about each of the components of our
project/program.