Influence of participatory monitoring and evaluation on program performance in non-government organisations

Abstract

The study was conducted in order to establish the effect of participatory Impact Monitoring and agricultural performance of non-government organizations particularly on Sustainable Agricultural Program at CARITAS Kampala in the Sub counties of Nansana and Gombe. The aim of the study was to examine the role, challenges, tools and strategies CARITAS Kampala is using to promote uptake of participatory impact monitoring and establish the effectiveness of PM&E at CARITAS Kampala Nansana and Gombe sub-counties while executing the Sustainable Agricultural Program whose overall objective is to contribute to overall poverty alleviation through improved food security and income at household level. The sample size was 213 respondents randomly selected from Nansana and Gombe subcounties out of which 9 were program staff purposively selected from CARITAS. Results show that participatory impact monitoring and evaluation positively contributed to increased organizational performance in non-government organization though with a few challenges in execution of the program and from these results, it can be concluded that improving the performance of PM&E in organizations plays a significant role on organizational performance in non-government organizations. Thus the study recommends that management of CARITAS should take on projects and programs that encourage the uptake of monitoring and evaluation and more so PM&E and also encourage CARITAS staff and farmers to take note of the effective techniques and tools of PM&E while considerably seeking remedies to the challenges of the PM&E in its execution.