Stichting Connect International

PMER stands for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation (& baselines) and Reporting. It provides the basis for the management of information in the organization, with exception of the financial administration and management. Included are the following tools:

MONITOR
A management information tool, programmed in Excel and in SPSS, for planning, monitoring of activities and realized output, and processing monitoring data into a large number of user friendly overviews for different users, like beneficiaries, fieldworkers, managers of the organization, authorities, donors and other stakeholders. The user develops activity and product indicators in the tool that form a basis for the qualitative monitoring forms. The overviews can be combined with financial reports to form reports for managers that combine figures for planning vs. realization of narrative and financial data next to each other.

SURVEY
A tool for development of normative surveys, storage of data from such surveys and reporting survey results. Normative surveys investigate how good or bad the situation is regarding subjects covered by the survey questions. The method does not obtain detailed information about causes of the situation or reasons for improvements or deteriorations found. SURVEY can be used to generate baseline information for planning and prioritization of required activities, to evaluate projects (assess outcome and impact) and to execute research. Data entry is done in an Excel file (SURVEY.xls) which contains the household survey questions grouped under standard topics and generates a number of standard reports. Per topic a maximum of 5 questions can be included. Per question 4 standard answers are formulated, ranging from bad (score 1) to good (score 4), with a score 5 for ‘no answers’.

PMER STANDARDS
A tool providing minimum standards and norms for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation (& baselines) and Reporting (PMER).

BUDGET
A strong and user friendly tool for development and planning of project budgets, that allows very easy and quick development of budgets during the project design phase and whenever budgets need to be changed, providing automatically generated Results and Line budgets.