Monitoring

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Monitoring

• IASC CAP Workshop

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Why monitor?

• To continually assess that our programmes are
  relevant for affected populations and are not
  doing harm i.e. being accountable
• To inform our humanitarian strategy
• To demonstrate the positive impact on
  beneficiaries when programme objectives are met
• To demonstrate the negative impact on
  beneficiaries when projects are not implemented
  because of under funding or incompetence
• To earn credibility

IASC Consolidated Appeals Process
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What is monitored in the CAP?

• The BIG picture
• Has the situation changed?
• Have the needs changed?
• Does our overall response need to adapt?

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In other words.

• Monitor two main variables
• The changing nature of the threats and violations
  ranged against protected persons (the situation)
  and
• Their experience of your strategy and activities
  (the outcome of our actions)
• --from the ALNAP humanitarian protection
  guidance booklet,
• Hugo Slim and Luis Enrique Eguren

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Monitoring in the CAP
Monitoring is one area where a study of the CAP
is like holding a mirror up to the humanitarian
system as a whole. Weak monitoring and impact
assessment are not weaknesses in the CAP, but
much wider weaknesses in the humanitarian system
as a whole, which the CAP reflects. --An
External Review of the CAP, 18 April 2002
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Efforts to improve monitoring in the CAP

• IASC Needs Assessment Framework
• Revised CAP Technical Guidelines
• Mid-year Review of the CAPs
• Good practice on monitoring DPRK, Angola, North
  Caucasus, oPt

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Monitoring Matrix Good practice from DPRK
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Monitoring Matrix Good practice from oPt