I would like to learn about the most commonly used statistical methods in monitoring and evaluation of projects and programs. The practitioners of M&E may be able to tell us the methods they frequently use for measuring specific aspects of a project or program. It is also helpful to mention the common dimensions that a person in-charge of M&E has to measure. This also allows one to guess what can be an appropriate method to measure such dimensions.
I appreciate sharing your experience and information in advance.
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Najibullah Hassanzoy
What statistical methods are commonly used in the monitoring and evaluation of projects and programs?
The statistical methods is part of the quantitative research methodology which can be determined better after knowing your research problem, research objective(s), research question(s), conceptual framework / research model & hypotheses. Based on your conceptual framework / research hypotheses, you can have some ideas what are the suitable statistical methods to be used e.g. testing for relationships among variables, simple / multiple regression, mediation / moderating effect, analysis of variance / differences etc. Wishing you all the best.
I think it depends on the hypothesis or questions you intended to find answers for.
Dear friends,
Thanks for your participation. Actually, I am not asking about methods for analyzing a specific research problem. I, rather, want to know about the common methods that are used by practitioners of monitoring and evaluation of development programs and projects. As we know, there are numerous statistical and econometric methods, it is very interesting to work on those methods that are applicable to impact evaluation of projects and programs. There is one book by world bank, but it is not very rich in statistical terms. If you have experience in monitoring and evaluation, please share your experience with us. It may also be very helpful if you can share the types of outcomes you are interested to measure so that we can guess of an appropriate statistical method.
Thanks for your cooperation in advance.
Regards,
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