October 2007, Theresa Finn, MEASURE Evaluation; United States Agency for International Development
Objectives of the Guide
The overall objective of this guide is to encourage program monitoring and evaluation and improve the quality of work in the population-healthenvironment area. To this end, the guide provides a comprehensive listing of the most widely used M&E indicators for population-health-environment programs in developing countries. The indicators are organized using a generic conceptual framework that maps the pathways through which programs achieve results, constituting a logical framework for developing an M&E plan with the most appropriate indicators.
This guide focuses on indicators of all stages of program achievement and across multiple sub-specialties within each technical area. This guide also presents a list of standard indicators to unify a national PHE project and discusses data collection and sources, data quality, and information-use protocols. This guide does not, however, present all the possible indicators
that may be applicable to every PHE program. Local, program-specific indicators should be developed with careful consideration to resources and utility.
The specific objectives of this guide are to:
- compile in a single publication a menu of population-health-environment indicators judged most useful in monitoring and evaluating PHE programs at both the program and the population/habitat levels;
- define these indicators in an effort to encourage the use of standardized definitions of indicators and terminology across PHE programs, countries, and donor agencies; and
- promote the M&E of PHE programs by making indicators available and easier to use.
