Assessing the programme
Monitoring visits by Australian staff in 1997 and 1998 provided the opportunity for Solomon Island staff to get together and take a look at their work.
The aim of the monitoring visits was to develop a picture of the program for APACE management, however the information was also useful to program staff in the Solomon Islands. It was intended that monitoring should be as useful to the country office as it was to the Australian organisation.
Six criteria were used to evaluate the program:
- relevance
- effectiveness
- efficiency
- progress
- impact
- sustainability.
These were derived from criteria used by Oxfam. In addition to these, the program was monitored against its objectives.
The 1998 monitoring visit of October and November disclosed a program making headway despite limitations imposed by too few financial, material and staff resources.
