OECD-DAC Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – Development Assistance Committee OR Operations Research Organization’s An organization’s authority to carry out M&E functions authority usually will come from the need to assess progress towards it’s strategy Organization’s An organization’s mandate for M&E is the specific order mandate given to an organization to execute M&E functions Organization’s An organization’s responsibility to carry out M&E responsibility functions can be defined as its obligation to perform assigned functions (Robbins and Decenzo, 2001) Organizational The set of shared beliefs, assumptions, and values that culture operate in organizations Organizational Describes the hierarchy, reporting lines, and systematic structure arrangement of work in an organization Outcome Used to obtain descriptive data on a project and to evaluation document short-term results OVC Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Partnership A partnership is an agreement between two or more parties to work together to achieve common aims PLHIV Persons living with HIV (includes people living with AIDS) PPP Policy, Program or Project Process evaluation Examination of procedures and tasks involved in implementing a program RDBMS Relational Database Management System Research Systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to a generalized knowledge; includes developing, testing and evaluating the research Respondent The person who answers questions during an interview Sample size The sample size is the number of units that will be selected from the sample frame, to produce statistically reliable results Sampling Sampling is the process of selecting respondents for the survey Sampling frame A list of all members of the population being studied so that each has an equal chance of being included in the sample (Scheuren, 2004)
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