DoView is ideal for building monitoring and evaluation plans based around a visual outcomes model (logic model). There are great advantages in having all the information in the one place that you need to discuss your monitoring and evaluation plan with stakeholders. You will find that when you are using your DoView visual monitoring and evaluation plan in a stakeholder or evaluation team meeting (DoView has been optimized for use in meetings with a data projector) all the information you will will just be a click away.

 

You DoView monitoring and evaluation plan can then become a 'living document' which you keep up-to-date as a way of controlling the implementation of your evaluation. When you need to report to stakeholders on how the evaluation is tracking, you just need to either send them a copy of the plan in DoView, as a PDF, or put the plan up as a web page model.

 

To build a DoView visual monitoring and evaluation plan

 

1. Draw an outcomes model using the method described in the Examples of Use: Outcomes Model Section.

 

 

 

 

2. Identify any indicators (measures of an outcome) and put them onto the model next to the outcomes they measure. You can erase the drawn lines and arrows from this version of the model so that you have room to see the indicators. If you make the model out of clones, then if you update the name of a step in the model, it will be updated in the cloned version immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

If you wish, you can list the indicators by copying and pasting them as clones onto another page.

 

 

3. Identify any evaluation questions and put them onto the model next to the outcomes they measure.

 

 

 

If you wish, you can list the evaluation questions by copying and pasting them as clones onto another page.

 

 

 

 

4. Identify possible, or actual evaluation projects, and put them onto another page in your model using items to represent them. Put the relevant evaluation questions under them.

 

 

 

 

Tip: The notes field of the evaluation project items' row in the details table has been displayed on the page (Right-click > Show Details > Notes). Only one field from an object's row can be displayed at a time on a page and only certain objects (items, indicators, questions) can have fields displayed on a page in this way.

 

5. If you wish, you can also use DoView to build a simple project plan on another page for each actual evaluation project you are planning to undertake.