Key terms in monitoring and evaluation
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CloseA guide to the words used when discussing monitoring and evaluation.
Aims
Areas of change or difference the organisation or project plans to bring about.
Objectives
Areas of activity or steps an organisation or project plans to achieve its aims.
Inputs
Inputs are the resources that are put into the project, such as staff and volunteer time, funding and technical resources.
Outputs
Products, services or facilities that result from an organisation or project’s activities.
Outcomes
Outcomes are the changes, benefits, learning or other effects resulting from an organisation’s activities.
Impact
‘Impact’ can be used inclusively to mean the various levels of change or effects of an organisation. It is also used to mean the longer-term, broader or cumulative and sustained effects of an organisation’s outputs and outcomes.
Indicators
Well-defined information that shows how an organisation or project is performing.
Target
A defined level of achievement which a project or organisation sets itself to achieve in a specific period of time.
Milestone
A well-defined and significant step towards achieving a target, output, outcome or impact.
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CAF's jargonbuster defines and explains some of the terms funders and support agencies use.
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