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Donor and Stakeholder Monitoring

Donors or other stakeholders monitor results to account for their investments and inform future decision-making. Donors will generally require some form of program and financial report from your team to keep them informed of program progress. They will usually provide the format. Your team should make sure that you understand what the donors want to see in the reports and how they want to see it. If you know that you will have difficulty collecting some of the information on a regular basis, discuss this with your donor to determine how you should proceed.

Because community mobilization programs by their nature tend to evolve slowly, donors may need extra assurance that programs are on track. It usually helps to involve donors through field visits or other means so that they can observe the process. If a field visit is not possible, a video or visit from program participants to the donor may be helpful. This approach is particularly important if the donors involved have never experienced community work and have relatively little or no day-to-day contact with marginalized or disadvantaged community groups and the context in which they live.

Individual and Family Monitoring
Community and Group Monitoring
Program Team Monitoring