Report
MSC（Most Significant Change）, Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Tool:
Consideration to Four Characteristics of MSC Based on its Implementation in Bangladesh NGO
2014 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 61-77
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2014 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 61-77
MSC（Most Significant Change）is a participatory monitoring and evaluation tool widely utilized by international NGOs. Author has analyzed four characteristics of MSC based on literature review and MSC implementation in Bangladesh NGO, considering MSC is effective for learning purpose evaluations of Japanese NGO projects. The four characteristics are as follows: 1）a monitoring and evaluation tool, 2）a participatory evaluation tool, 3）a qualitative analysis tool and 4）means for organizational learning.
After the MSC practice in Bangladesh, it has been observed that MSC has advantages of participatory evaluation, such as awareness raising, capacity building and mutual understanding of stakeholders and some functions to compensate for limitations of participatory evaluation, such as “validity” and “representativeness” to some extent.
Furthermore, regular implementation from the beginning of project and staff capacity building like interview skill training are important for better MSC implementations.
In order to make MSC more utilized by Japanese NGOs in future, further study is needed, such as to consider about importance of evaluation using MSC, present situation of NGO evaluation in Japan and merits and possibilities of MSC introduction to Japanese NGO.
