Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation for Impacts

This book entitled Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation for Impacts' aims to support learners in becoming more results-oriented in their initiatives. The book recognizes that planning, monitoring and evaluation is paramount in project management. Recognizing that results planning is a prerequisite for effective program design, monitoring and evaluation, the book integrates planning, monitoring and evaluation in a single document. It is known that project management practices and procedures operate across a wide range of applications, from agricultural projects in Africa to complex engineering projects in Australia. Project management is, perhaps, the world's first truly international area of professional practice. The growth of project management as an international discipline has been driven by the growth in the complexity of projects around the world. People have always developed projects. In their simplest form projects are one- off or unique. They have a single aim and a series of separate definable objectives. They have a finite lifespan and they are usually intended to bring about change.