Proving and Improving Impact

Freedom from Hunger is committed to building the capacity of implementing organizations to systematically and regularly monitor and periodically evaluate their performance. A key component of a performance management system, monitoring and evaluation allows organizations to

• assess the quantity and quality of  products and services delivered;

• measure the effectiveness and impacts of products and services; and

• provide organization leadership with information they need to make critical decisions about their performance.  

Our staff help implementing organizations address performance at three levels using monitoring and evaluation processes and tools that are user-friendly, cost- and time-efficient, and locally and organizationally appropriate. 

• Organizational Performance.  Includes periodic institutional capacity assessments to measure the effectiveness of all departments of an organization to support and deliver its services.
• Financial Performance.  Includes monitoring key financial and operational indicators. 
• Social Performance.  Includes monitoring intermediate changes in client knowledge and behavior as well as longer-term impacts, particularly in the areas of food security, women’s empowerment, social capital, financial well-being and health and nutrition.
  

In addition to supporting implementing organizations to regularly monitor their performance, Freedom from Hunger periodically evaluates the success of partner programs and supports organizations to complete their own impact evaluations as well.  Read more about impact evaluations that have been conducted by Freedom from Hunger and our partners.

Follow the links to learn more about monitoring and evaluation.  Contact Bobbi Gray (bgray@freefromhunger.org), our Research and Evaluation Specialist, if you have any  questions.