ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the processes and tools used in monitoring projects. This includes looking at the kinds of indicators needed when mapping a project’s progress towards its objectives, as well as how to design a monitoring system to track these. The chapter includes case studies on adaptive and responsive management, and reflecting on the importance of participation. It also reviews how much monitoring is done in the interests of donors rather than for adaptive management, meaning that opportunities for learning may be lost. The institutional challenges of making dynamics between unequal actors in the aid chain is identified as a constraint to more innovative approaches. Pervasive monitoring is considered part of a series of technologies for top-down surveillance of aid that contemporary project management systems entail.
