Handbook on Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating for Development Results - UNDP - (2009)

This is a guide put out by the United Nations Development Program, with the aim of setting guidelines for that organization and its partners in creating good policies for the planning, monitoring, and evaluating portions of their projects. The handbook first provides the reader with a basic understanding of the purposes and guiding principles of the UNDP in this field, including their essential elements for planning, monitoring, and evaluating. The handbook goes into great detail describing the practicioning of the UNDP's essential elements for these processes. This document is greatly oriented towards a results-based approach to monitoring, making it especially relevant in the context of this month's newsletter, which has the same subject. Not only is this guide a useful tool for anyone who wishes to learn more about good ways to approach these subjects, but it is also a window on the UNDP's understanding of, and approach to, these processes.