As part of delivering your project, you are required to monitor and evaluate the benefits and progress that you make.
This will happen in two ways, which are set out below.
Based on your Digital Planning Maturity Assessment (DPMA)
You will have started by defining your baseline DPMA, with an Action Plan to focus on one or more area to improve your LPAs maturity in.
Once you complete your Action Plan and the project, you will be asked to reflect on your DPMA results and see where or if you have improved your maturity as part of the project.
The difference will be the benefit of the improvements you have delivered.
Using our 8-step approach to monitoring and evaluating your project
We suggest where you are undertaking improvement work you follow our 8-step approach to monitoring and evaluating your benefits - providing data on how you have increased impact and or efficiency of your planning departments.
The following 8 steps will allow you to successfully monitor and evaluate changes to your work
- Confirm the outcomes and how we will measure them
- Define the data we need to collect
- Find where the data is and decide how to collect what is missing
- Update our data collection methods and tools to fill any gaps
- Start collecting and reporting baseline measures
- Plan and run pilots and test projects
- Report our data and share learnings
- Monitor and update M&E tools and processes
Read the full Monitoring and Evaluation approach and how to do it here