Sustainable Development Framework
EDANZ Tools for Sustainable Economic Development
The Economic Development Resources section of this website has been based on a generic monitoring and evaluation framework used by numerous industries internationally i.e. economic development, local and central government, tourism, business, education, health and community, to name but a few.
It offers a step by step guide to the monitoring and evaluation process, a suite of best value economic indicators, background information relating to sustainable economic development and a number of very practical tools for planning and monitoring economic growth.
The user friendly structure of the resource means that you can choose to access all tools and indicators using your menu on the left or step through the monitoring and evaluation process and access the relevant tools and indicators as and when they are needed on your journey.
The tools and indicators have been sourced from reputable organizations internationally and are offered for your use and feedback.
Put simply, monitoring will give you the evidence you need to prove you are "doing things right" and evaluation will give you the evidence you need to prove you are "doing the right things".
This monitoring and evaluation resource offers ready access to appropriate tools, statistics and indicators that will enable you to:
- develop a strong economic profile
- engage with your stakeholders to plan best value interventions
- demonstrate the logic flow between your intervention, outputs, impacts and outcomes
- build your own qualitative and quantitative indicators
- communicate and report progress to your stakeholders
Your Monitoring and Evaluation journey has just five steps:
- Step One - Situational Analysis
- Step Two - Planning Aims and Indicators with your stakeholders
- Step Three - Establishing priorities
- Step Four - Monitoring progress
- Step Five - Evaluating and Reporting
In addition, this resource base includes includes further information specific to:
Situational Analysis
Successful planning is in large part dependent on the quality of your situational analysis. As a consequence it should be as comprehensive as your time and resources allow.
Resources in this category: 3
Planning
Resources in this category: 14
Prioritising
You have completed your planning and there are a number of potential interventions that appear on the surface to have equal merit and yet not all can be completed with your resources? How do you decide which is going to be the best value to pursue?
Resources in this category: 3
Monitoring
Now that you have finished establishing your aims and indicators you are in a position to idenitfy any additional data that you may need to establish baselines and monitor progress.
Resources in this category: 6
Evaluation
By now your intervention will have been largely or completely implemented and you will be ready to undertake a post evaluation. A key ingredient of post evaluation is learning from the past and informing the future. Below are a number of resources and tools that can help you evaluate the success or otherwise of an intervention.
Resources in this category: 12