Best Practices
Community Based Planning and Monitoring Process
Community-based Monitoring involves drawing in, activating, motivating, capacity building and allowing the community and its representatives e.g. community based organizations (CBOs), people’s movements, voluntary organizations and Panchayat representatives, to directly give feedback about the functioning of the developmental programmes. The community monitoring process will involve a three-way partnership between service providers and managers, the community, community-based organizations, NGOs and Panchayati Raj Institutions. The emphasis will be laid on the developmental spirit of ‘fact-finding’ and ‘learning lessons for improvement’ rather than ‘fault finding’.
Stages of CBM: Community-based monitoring process includes preparatory activities, capacity building and training of trainers, community assessment, interface meeting and finally the evaluation.
Stages of CBM: Community-based monitoring process includes preparatory activities, capacity building and training of trainers, community assessment, interface meeting and finally the evaluation.

