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Monitoring enables assessment vis-à-vis the established milestones or work-plan of a programme or project; it generates immediate and tangible feedback.

Evaluation on the other hand questions the validity of the project design: its objectives, relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. It focuses on quality and results.

In tandem, the M&E tool enables early feedback and course corrections, which helps to improve programme or project design, method and plan of implementation, and quality of results.

INTEGRATION has developed a tailor-made M&E concept on behalf of the European Commission, which works particularly well with the Logical Framework (Logframe) planning technique and Project Cycle Management (PCM) used by the EC.

In our monitoring system, reports are simultaneously distributed to all stakeholders, in order to avoid delays in the sharing of information. Each of our M&E reports contains a narrative summary as well as a set of specially-developed and easily adaptable "Project Profiles" which enable easy horizontal and vertical comparison of projects as well as unified assessments. They serve as an early warning system for potential problems and as checklists for initial as well as subsequent monitoring visits. These "Profiles" have proven to be easily understandable by professionals from different backgrounds.