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Monitoring and Evaluation

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Policy formulation and execution; Project planning and implementation; Tracking and assessment to surpass achievement on intending target of task

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The concept of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has emerged in the field of development admin-istration as a techniques of objective planning and project implementation. Monitoring and evalua-tion is an approach to understanding the planning and implementation of development projects for achieving the desired goals and targets. M&E are extremely effective tools for improving plan for-mulation and implementation, eliminating time and cost overruns, and discovering organizational physical, financial, technical, motivational and/or administrative inadequacies with a view to remove the obstacles as well as improving beneficiary satisfaction to the level of expected objectives. M&E starts with the challenge of minimizing gaps between what is planned and what is actually implemented, what has been intended as the outcome of...

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  1. Department of Development Studies, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh

    Nasim Banu

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Banu, N. (2018). Monitoring and Evaluation. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3376-1

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