Effective Monitoring and Evaluation

Effective Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is essential for civil society organizations and groups, ensuring credibility and learning for impactful interventions. At Steps, we provide tailored support in M&E, focusing on planning, monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment. Our approach emphasizes participatory methodologies in program design, aiming to catalyze change and enhance effectiveness through comprehensive guidance in program cycle management and proposal development. This includes:

  • Supporting organizations and groups in developing M&E frameworks and plans that align with their mission, goals, and activities and that are people-centric.

  • Facilitate reflection processes to collect lessons learned, best practices, and areas for improvement from M&E findings.

  • Design and deliver training to strengthen organizational capacities in M&E, including data collection, tools, analysis and reporting. 

  • Conduct evaluation and impact assessments, including developing and implementing methodologies.

  • Support in understanding the context, including context and stakeholder analysis, power and relationship analysis, etc.

  • Assisting in the development of high-quality project proposals, including conducting needs assessments, defining objectives, outlining activities, and preparing budgets. 

M&E
Evaluation and Impact Assessments
Program Design
Developing Theories of Change
Strategy Work
Data Collection
Context Analysis

Facilitating of evaluation of FTN project with partner organizations

Working with community activists in Future Together Now project with forumZFD

Facilitating evaluation of Future Together Now Project

Steps was responsible for supporting partners in implementing community assessment, supporting their organizational development, coaching delivery of workshops and assessing impact of Active Citizens project.

A project implemented in partnership with the British Council.

This process studied the impact of the Active Citizens project on the teachers, students and their surrounding community in Chekka, Zgharta, Klayaat and Rmeich. Steps implemented 5 focus group discussions (FDGs) and 9 in-depth interviews, covering as well the impact of the 8 social action projects (SAPs) supported by the project.

Reflection and Assessment of "Rainbow of Hope II" project

Steps was responsible for designing and facilitating the reflection of the project in three main areas in Lebanon.

A project implemented in partnership with Search for Common Ground.

Steps was responsible for designing and implementing the evaluation process for the Active Citizens (AC) program in Lebanon, with a focus on Most Significant Change, titled "Active Citizens Impact Quality Evaluation Study Report". 

A project implemented in partnership with the British Council.

The evaluation looks at the past AC journey in terms of evaluation, learning and measuring the impact of the programme in local communities through CSOs, private sector, secondary public schools as well as with higher education and recommends future directions in Active Citizens.

The report starts with the background of AC in Lebanon, presents the most significant change stories that were collected and then proposes areas of improvement and key recommendations for British Council.

The most significant change stories were collected through in-depth interviews with key stakeholders ranging from AC facilitators, programme team, and partners.