| Sumario: | Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) activity is essential in any project management and helps to
verify if a project has met the planned activities, outputs and outcomes. We present here M&E
framework for the Ecohealth Field Building Initiative Leadership Initiative (FBLI) in South East
Asia using Outcome Harvesting as a tool. Outcome Harvesting as a variation of Outcome
Mapping - a M&E concept focusing on one specific type of result: outcomes as behavioral
change - has been used to monitor and evaluate the achievements of hundreds of networks,
non-governmental organizations, research centers, think tanks, and community-based
organizations around the world.
We will describe the process of monitoring used in the FBLI program i.e. how proposed tools
such as detailed monitoring and the quarterly bulletin, the self-reflection tool, as well as
Outcome Harvesting are integrated to monitor and evaluate the expected outputs as well as
what the program’s varying hopes and expectations are, laid out in the project proposal as what
the program would love to see, like to see and expect to see in the field of Ecohealth building in
South East Asia.
The five year FBLI program, funded by the IDRC, is a research project aimed at positing
Ecohealth as a sustainable dynamic field in the region. The three major components of the
project, namely capacity building, knowledge translation, and research, are the progress
markers that can be considered as indicators of behavioral change in boundary partners as well
as desired outcomes in the Ecohealth field. These provide a basis for monitoring the progress
and outcomes of the program.
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