A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs

This resource from MEASURE Evaluation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) addresses evaluation of the current generation of population, health, and environment (PHE) projects. It intends to provide a tool that can help measure the results of integrated PHE projects and demonstrate the benefits of the PHE approach to achieving larger development goals. Because, according to the author, no single implementing organisation can be a technical expert in all three fields, PHE field practitioners need a guide to indicators across the population, health, and environment fields. This guide, as stated in the introduction, is designed to meet these needs within a realistic framework that was developed in consultation with current PHE practitioners. Their guidance helped select recommended indicators in each field, with emphasis on those that have been tested in past PHE projects.

Also available with this guide is a CD-ROM or downloadable PDF document containing MEASURE Evaluation’s M&E Fundamentals: A Self-Guided Minicourse, which covers the basics of programme monitoring and evaluation in the context of population, health, and nutrition programmes. It also defines common terms and discusses why M&E is essential for programme management. Please see the related summary below for more information on this document.