"Designed to help those who want to monitor and evaluate their work. This book advocates simple, low-cost methods appropriate for community development programmes, and can be used in the field by those who have no training in evaluation methodology. Has chapters on: understanding evaluation; Planning and organising resources; using existing knowledge and records; collecting more information; reposting the results of evaluation; using the evaluation results. Clear writing, how to do it with reasons for everything. Extensive bibliography. The examples refer especially to evaluation of (basic) health services." (Catalogue Intermediate Technology Publications 2000)