Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING

In order to ensure that our investments are having the greatest possible impact on undernutrition, The Power of Nutrition is committed to a rigorous approach to monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

THE POWER OF NUTRITION CARRIES OUT IN DEPTH ASSESSMENTS THROUGH THE LIFETIME OF EACH OF OUR INVESTMENT PROGRAMMES

PROGRAMME MONITORING

The Power of Nutrition carries out in depth assessments through the lifetime of each of our investment programmes to measure progress and impact against core objectives and key performance indicators:

  • Rapid service coverage assessments to identify barriers to access and for early indications of whether projects are on track to contribute to reduced stunting;
  • Operational research and pilots to test innovative approaches to improve service delivery and utilization or encourage healthy feeding behaviours.

EVALUATION

We use these assessments to determine the long term impact that our investments are having and how the programmes we help to fund are contributing to changes in household nutrition practices and the prevalence of stunting, wasting or anaemia, through quasi-experimental studies, qualitative interviews and case studies, or triangulation with national surveys, such as Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).

WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONSTANTLY IMPROVE HOW WE WORK

LEARNING

We are committed to using this information to constantly improve how we work and to sharing lessons learned from our investments’ successes and challenges with our partners and the nutrition community more broadly. We regularly join missions with implementing partners and governments to discuss results and how programmes can be improved for greater impact.