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Baseline study Efficient monitoring and evaluation will not be possible without baseline data. A collection of baseline data should be conducted before the project is implemented, and this data collection will constitute the beginning of the M&E process. A baseline study could start out with a national consultation, or make use of existing national data gathering efforts to assess the OVC situation. It should contain both qualitative and quantitative information, and generally be based on the indicators identified in the previous section. A baseline study can be conducted by local consultants and NGOs, ideally in partnership with communities. Involving the community from the start is a way to increase community buy-in. A baseline study should provide data on service input and output indicators (primarily for monitoring purposes), as well as background data that can later be used to assess project outcome and impact (primarily for evaluation purposes). A baseline study should thus comprise an overview of data collected by other related projects and studies in the project area, an overview of relevant macro statistics, a survey of relevant institutional and legal indicators, ideally a set of local indicators collected by the communities in a participatory way, but, most importantly, a baseline study should collect data on the indicators that you have chosen to evaluate the impact of your project, so that the data collected during the final evaluation can be compared with data collected during the baseline study and used to document changes that ideally are the result of the project itself, once exogenous factors have been taken into account. |
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