Monitoring & evaluation

Learning from experience

DanChurchAid (DCA) supports its partners in the south in their struggle against poverty and inequality and for improved livelihoods and human rights. But how do we know that we are reaching our goals? That we deliver high quality assistance, and that we are making a difference? And how do we become better at what we do? Read more: Learning and Quality Assurance in DCA...

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Monitoring

Together with its partners DCA monitors progress towards the desired results of every project and programme through programme and project reviews, project visits and ongoing dialogue with the partners that implement the projects. DCA has developed a set of guidelines and tools to support this work in the field and to ensure that the information is disseminated throughout the organization for internal learning and accountability purposes.

Evaluation

To complement the ongoing monitoring, DCA carries out independent evaluations that are publicly accessible via this site (view box to the right). The evaluations are in depth assessments of a project or a programme at final point to assess the extent to which they had the intended effect. The purpose is to learn from experience, positive and negative, to become better at what we do, to ensure a certain level of accountability, and to document the experience for institutional memory.

DCA’s evaluation policy describes why and what we evaluate and the criteria and principles we adhere to. The guidelines support the implementation of the policy. The first programmes are finalizing this year (2007), so we have yet to carry out the first programme evaluations. As they are finalized, they will be accessible on this site.

Contact information
Head of Programme Development
Cecilie Bjørnskov-johansen
cbj@dca.dk
Tel: +45 3318 7862
Cell: +45 2969 9132