All have usefulness at an aggregate level, though most of them present measurement problems. None of them provide the immediate, local usefulness of nutrition indicators in local areas and in different groups in the population. Clinic statistics should be made widely available, and analysed at local, district, provincial and national levels as a part of the planning processes. Programme Monitoring and Evaluation at the Local Level Officials working for Rural District councils and Rural councils will be obliged to learn the RDP business planning processes to ensure that rural dwellers benefit from the use of government funding. The use of formal programme monitoring and evaluation procedures will be required to ensure the continued release of project funds, but will also serve to inform local development affords.
Monitoring is concerned with the effect of the activities of the organisation.
Evaluation is the process of measuring the effect of what was achieved. Both will require a management information system. Monitoring and evaluation can be achieved with relatively straightforward and well established procedures and frameworks such as the 'logical framework' and 'objective tree' structures. Rural development involves a large number of functions and levels so there is a need to ensure some order of coherence in planning and reporting. A common strategic and reporting framework has therefore been proposed that will allow the necessary flexibility to enable local conditions to be taken into account.