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Resources for Monitoring and Evaluating Household Energy Projects

[top] [end]General introductions and resources

• OECD-DAC Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results-Based Management (161 KB) contains descriptions of all the key terminology in English, French and Spanish. To keep everything clear, this is the terminology we will try to use in MandESIG
• The June 2008 issue of Boiling Point focused on Monitoring and Evaluation of Household Energy Projects and contains MANY useful resources
• European Commission's Project Cycle Management manual (1,397 KB) and Training Handbook (2,842 KB)

[top] [end]M&E of Energy for Development

• GVEP knowledge base on Monitoring and Evaluation of Energy for Development, which includes the Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation for Energy Projects (607 KB) from the Monitoring and Evaluation in Energy for Development (M&EED) International working group.
• The June 2008 issue of Boiling Point focused on Monitoring and Evaluation of Household Energy Projects
• Evaluating household energy and health interventions: a catalogue of methods, a WHO publication by Jonathan Rouse discusses "evaluation options in the areas of Adoption, Market development, Performance, Pollution levels and personal exposure, Health and safety, Time, socio-economic and other impacts and Environmental impacts. It provides methods that range from simple questionnaires to complex monitoring techniques, and outlines practical issues related to study design, ethical considerations, data analysis and reporting." (download the full PDF from HEDON here) (1,445 KB)
• DEA Assessment Framework - "The Assessment Procedure is the methodological core of the DEA project. The guideline describes in practical terms how to approach the task of conducting an Impact Analysis of an energy intervention. The methodological approach, termed the DEA Assessment Framework, has been based heavily on findings and recommendations in the recent literature related to impact analysis."
• Monitoring and Evaluation of the Impact of Renewable Energy Programmes - a toolkit for applying participatory approaches, Written by Kavita Rai - large file (6MB)

[top] [end]Key tools and techniques

[top] [end]Stove performance testing

• Water Boiling Test (WBT)
• Comparative Water Boiling Test, the Comparative Water Boiling Test for Charcoal, and the same test description in French.
• Chinese Standard WBT
• Indian Standard WBT
• Controlled Cooking Test
• Field Trial - field trials are used to measure the impact of an improved stove in use. It depends on measuring the impact on household fuels over an extended period in a number of households
• Household Smoke Monitoring - a step by step guide including interviewers datasheet and manual

[top] [end]Project design and development

[top] [end]Strategies and structures (logframe etc.)

[top] [end]Logical Framework (logframe)

• A Guide for developing a Logical Framework from the Centre for International Development and Training, University of Wolverhampton, UK (112 KB)
• The European Commission's Project Cycle Management manual (1,397 KB) has quite a lot on developing logframes.

[top] [end]Results Based Monitoring / Management

• BP55: Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit: Six steps to Results Based Monitoring (RBM) by Melanie Djédjé from Boiling Point issue 55

[top] [end]Outcome mapping

• The Outcome Mapping User Community - Outcome Mapping focuses on measuring changes in the behaviour of the people with whom a development initiative works most closely. Outcome mapping limits its concern to those results – or “outcomes” – that fall strictly within the program’s sphere of influence. It considers only those activities where the program can claim it contributed to a direct effect.

[top] [end]Assessment of risks and planning to avoid them

[top] [end]Monitoring

OECD-DAC glossary of terms (161 KB)

[top] [end]Introductions to project monitoring, key issues, etc.

[top] [end]Approaches, Tools and Techniques

• Outcome Mapping
• Most Significant Change overview and the Most Significant Change guide (1,256 KB)
• Monitoring and Evaluation of the Impact of Renewable Energy Programmes - a toolkit for applying participatory approaches, Written by Kavita Rai - large file (6MB)

[top] [end]Tracking of risks

[top] [end]Adaptive management

[top] [end]Case studies, lessons learned, examples

• Cookstove Voluntary Carbon Methodology Developed by ClimateCare. This methodology has been developed for large-scale projects disseminating improved cookstoves. It will help to launch large-scale programmes on and act as a guideline for the CDM small-scale projects

[top] [end]Evaluation

OECD-DAC glossary of terms (161 KB)

[top] [end]Introductions to project evaluation, key issues, etc.

[top] [end]Approaches, Tools and Techniques

• Monitoring and Evaluation - Some Tools, Methods & Approaches (116 KB) - gives pros and cons of various approaches (almost all are evaluation approaches not monitoring)
• Outcome Mapping
• Appreciative Inquiry (AI) commons - AI is billed as a "very easy, powerful and positive way to enable change. You start by looking at what works and how to make this better.", and includes a 4-stage process of "discovery", "dreaming", "designing" and "delivery"
• WHO's Evaluating household energy and health interventions: a catalogue of methods (1,445 KB)
• UN standards and norms for evaluations

[top] [end]Case studies, lessons learned, examples

[top] [end]Other resource lists

• List of tools from Monitoring and Evaluation Tools - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• Guidance for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies from OECD-DAC (207 KB)
• World Bank Evaluation, Monitoring and Quality Enhancement
• Monitoring & Evaluation Capacity Development
• Monitoring and Evaluation News - a community website and email list

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