Getting Started with Monitoring & Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Beginners

Make Monitoring & Evaluation practical from your first project

A step-by-step introduction for students, programme officers, NGO staff and emerging M&E professionals.

Getting Started with Monitoring & Evaluation: A Practical Guide for Beginners is a revised and expanded 2026 guide that connects programme design, credible evidence and better decisions.

What you receive

• The complete 97-page PDF and an EPUB edition, available through Selar after purchase.

• 16 chapters, with practical exercises and checklists.

• Nine appendices, including an M&E plan template, indicator reference sheet, data-quality assessment template, evaluation matrix and results-report template.

• A complete fictional worked example, BridgePath, showing how the parts of an M&E system fit together.

What you will learn

Results chains and Theory of Change; useful indicators; baselines, targets and disaggregation; data collection and sampling; data quality, ethics and safeguarding; analysis, reporting, evaluation and adaptive learning.

Public sample: selected excerpt from Chapter 1 only

The complete book is available after paid checkout.

Monitoring and Evaluation is often introduced as a collection of tools: indicators, forms, databases, surveys and reports. Those tools matter, but they are not the purpose of the work. The purpose is to help people make better decisions with credible evidence.

Projects begin with promises. A training project promises improved skills. A health project promises healthier lives. A livelihoods programme promises greater economic security. M&E asks whether the work is being delivered as planned, whether people are experiencing the intended change, why results are or are not happening, and what should be done next.

About the author

Kingsley Adimabua is a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning professional with more than a decade of experience across development and humanitarian programmes. His work covers results frameworks, indicators, data systems, data quality, evaluation, reporting and learning.

Before you buy

This is a digital book in PDF and EPUB formats. The templates and checklists are inside the book. After purchase, access your files through your Selar purchase email or account.

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