{"id":21330,"date":"2024-03-01T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidaeuroprogettazione.eu\/monitoring-and-evaluation-in-european-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:22:20","slug":"monitoring-and-evaluation-in-european-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/monitoring-and-evaluation-in-european-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring and evaluation in European projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy in-depth discussion on monitoring in European projects: what it is for and how to develop a good framework<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Monitoring in European projects: new chapter<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We publish today <a href=\"https:\/\/euknow.it\/guida\/al-lavoro-progettazione-europea\/gestire-progetto-monitoraggio-valutazione\/\">a <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/euknow.it\/guida\/al-lavoro-progettazione-europea\/gestire-progetto-monitoraggio-valutazione\/\">\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new in-depth study <\/span>\n<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relating to &#8220;how&#8221; to work on European projects. It is organized into the following sections:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why and how to talk about monitoring and evaluation in European projects<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defining the logic of intervention: the Logical Framework and the Theory of Change<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example of Theory of Change<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defining indicators: &#8220;SMART&#8221; criteria, linearity and simplification<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Define the monitoring and evaluation framework<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example of Monitoring and Evaluation Framework<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This new chapter takes up the following themes and tries to answer the following questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Define terms.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  What are monitoring and evaluation and why are they important in European projects? What differentiates monitoring from evaluation?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Understanding the process.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  What needs to be done to set up a monitoring and evaluation activity? What are the phases of the activity? To what extent is this within the reach of one&#8217;s organizational resources and capabilities?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Set the intervention logic.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  What does the Logical Framework have to do with monitoring and evaluation? What is Theory of Change and how to use it in the context of European projects?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Choose indicators.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  What are the criteria for defining indicators that allow for adequate monitoring of the activity and are, at the same time, appropriate to one&#8217;s organizational resources and capabilities?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The monitoring and evaluation framework.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  What is a monitoring and evaluation framework and what is it for? What elements does it consist of and how to identify them? (with related examples)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If these questions interest you, read the new chapter now:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/euknow.it\/guida\/al-lavoro-progettazione-europea\/gestire-progetto-monitoraggio-valutazione\/\">3.6. Managing the project: monitoring and evaluation<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New insights on project management methods and tools and the concept of impact will follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See you soon and keep following us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy in-depth discussion on monitoring in European projects: what it is for and how to develop a good framework<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,2199],"tags":[2316,2325],"class_list":["post-21330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-archive","category-archive-news","tag-content-guide","tag-how-to-methods-for"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33725,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions\/33725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}