CARD specializes in concurrent, mid-term, end evaluations, physical and financial Monitoring of various development programmes. The Centre has been identified as a nodal agency for the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India for monitoring and evaluation of centrally sponsored schemes of rural development. We have given a new dimension to monitoring process by adopting participatory monitoring system rather than practicing the policing system. The other regular partners in Evaluation Studies include; the Planning Commission, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and various International donor agencies. The main objectives of monitoring assignments include:

• To maintain the flow of authentic and reliable information about the performance of the programmes of Ministry from the district level to the Ministry.



• To obtain qualitative feedback about the implementation and policy environment at the district level in order to remove bottlenecks in the implementation and make it more effective.



• To check and verify the physical achievements reported by the district level implementation agencies the evaluations are generally carried out to make an objective assessment on how the project activities are going, how well the participants are doing and what effect it is having on intended beneficiaries. The outcome is used to improve the performance.