Data and Monitoring Tools

Monitoring and research are essential processes in ensuring the relevance and effectiveness of programs, and the scope and type of service provision. They are integral components of analysis, strategic planning, and implementation for government and non-governmental organisations seeking to effect change, support or provide services.

Monitoring is an on-going process of gathering information e.g. statistics and tracking inputs and outputs, enabling the evaluation of what is working, and providing a mechanism for accountability. Combined with research, it facilitates the planning of improved resource allocation and service delivery. Research and monitoring can also help raise awareness of the gravity of a situation, both nationally and internationally. It should help convince those who are putting time, energy and money into supporting programmes that their efforts are worthwhile and should be continued.

Results of monitoring and evaluation should be fed directly back into programmes to correct weaknesses and improve performance. The outcomes of research and monitoring should also help improve child care policies. Results can be used to inform future programme design, prompting a decision to replicate an effective intervention in other areas or to discontinue an intervention because it is expensive and not making any beneficial changes.

The literature in this section provides statistical data on vulnerable children from a wide range of sources, as well as guidance and examples of data collection, indicators, analysis, and research methods regarding issues relating to vulnerable children.

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How Much Does My Service Cost: A Guide to Unit Costing

Peter Gross, EU Child Welfare Reform Project Georgia , 13 May 2009

This workbook aims to introduce service managers and accountants to the ideas, concepts and methodologies of unit costing, to help them establish a price for their service per child and per unit of time.

Developing Indicators for the Protection, Respect and Promotion of the Rights of the Child in the European Union

European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) , 01 Mar 2009

Outlines the development of a common set of indicators for EU member states to measure children's rights and collect data.

Manual for the Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care

Better Care Network and UNICEF, 2009

Manual to assist countries in strengthening their information system around children in formal care through data collection around 15 global indicators

Policy Analysis Tools for Policy/Implementation Indicators (Indicators 13-15)

Better Care Network and UNICEF Headquarters, 2009

This document includes a portion of the individual worksheets accompanying the Manual for the Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care.

Policy Analysis Tools for Policy Implementation Indicators 13-15.doc

Child Development Index

Save the Children UK, 2009

Analysis of the considerable variation between countries, globally and within regions in terms of the rights, opportunities and wellbeing that children enjoy and the national political and policy choices affecting them.

Information Collection Tools for Quantitative Indicators for the Manual of Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care (Indicators 1-12)

Better Care Network and UNICEF Headquarters , 31 Dec 2008

The information collection tools from the Manual for the Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care - a manual to assist countries in strengthening their information system around children in formal care through data collection around 15 global indicators.

Information Collection Tools for Quantitative Indicators.doc

Demographic Evidence of Family and Household Changes in Response to the Effects of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS, 01 Dec 2008

Assessment on the impact of HIV/AIDS on key aspects of family life cycles