This guide clarifies the meaning of monitoring and evaluation and provides some guidance for how to do it well. It identifies some useful tools that will help when performing any monitoring and evaluation activities. There are a myriad of M&E materials for those who wish to explore further the complexity and usefulness of M&E. This short guide highlights the key components that underpin any M&E activity and will help small and diaspora NGOs to make sense of the many approaches, tools and materials available.