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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MGLSD and Districts Capacity Assessment Scores and the Methodology Used to Determine the Scores

Uganda Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, 2006

The methodology and tools used to score a capacity assessment to determine Uganda's MGLSD and district management capacity needs to provide leadership and coordination of the national response to OVC and AB/Y.

Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children Affected by AIDS

UNICEF, UNAIDS and PEPFAR, 2006

This report contains new and improved research and statistical infortmation on orphans and vulnerable children, including what governments, NGO's, the private sector and the international community can do to better respond.

A Rapid Assessment of Children's Homes in post-Tsunami Aceh

Florence Martin and Tata Sudrajat, 2006

Examines institutional and family care in post-Tsunami Indonesia. Includes situational analysis, key issues, and recommendations.

TransMONEE Database

UNICEF Innocenti Reserach Centre, 2006

A website that contains statistical information on children in 27 countries across Central and Eastern Europe. The site contains relevant child protection indicators, including the number of children in institutional care.

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Relationships between Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation in Crisis and Unstable Contexts

N/A, 2006

One-page flow-chart diagram outlining the purpose of and relationship between assessment, monitoring, and evaluation processes.

Alternative Care Workshop, Bangkok 2005: Workshop on Indicators and Information System

29 Nov 2005

This document provides an outline of the Workshop on Indicators and Information Systems, held on day 2 of the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.

Methods of Assessment: Alternative Care Workshop Bangkok 2005

29 Nov 2005

This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.

Rapid Child Protection Assessment Form

N/A, 2005

A simple, one-page form designed to assess child protection needs in immediate relief situations.

Rapid Child Assessment Form

Monitoring and Evaluating National Responses for Children Orphaned and Made Vulnerable by HIV/AIDS

Mary Mahy, 2005

Description and findings of a pilot survey designed to monitor and evaluate national responses for children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Shows that over 99% of all children live in family care.

http://www.crin.org/docs/Mahy_pilotresults.ppt

Children and Disability in Transition CEE/CIS and Baltic States

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005

Report presents and analyzes new research and data around children with disabilities in the region, the effects of institutional care, and the need for family support services.