Achievement
Actual ÷ Target for the same period, expressed as a percentage. Not applicable when the target is zero.
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Plain-language definitions.
Established MEL and software terminology, defined the way METRA GET actually implements it — not a generic dictionary definition.
20 terms
Actual
The genuinely reported value for an indicator in a given period — distinct from its target. Never fabricated when missing; shown as "no data reported" instead.
Baseline
The value of an indicator before a programme or phase begins — the reference point a target is set and measured against.
Beneficiary
A person registered once per organization and joined to one or more projects — never re-entered per project or per service.
Direct Implementation
A delivery model where the Lead organization delivers activities itself, as distinct from routing delivery through an Implementing Partner.
Disaggregation
Breaking an indicator's totals down by a real categorical dimension (gender, district, age group) already present in the underlying data.
Evaluation
A periodic, structured assessment of a programme — often against a baseline or counterfactual — that asks whether it caused change and whether it was worthwhile, going beyond what routine monitoring alone can answer.
Implementing Partner (IP)
An organization delivering part of a project on the Lead organization's behalf, with its own scoped users, results and evidence.
Indicator
A defined, measurable variable used as evidence that a specific result (goal, outcome, output or activity) is occurring — attached to a logframe item within a Results Framework.
Logframe
The hierarchical Results Framework structure: Goal → Outcome → Output → Activity, each level able to carry its own indicators.
MEL / MEAL
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning — with Accountability added explicitly in MEAL. Three related but distinct disciplines: continuous tracking, periodic assessment, and deliberate adaptation based on findings.
Monitoring
The continuous, routine tracking of a programme against its plan while it runs.
Outcome
A medium-term change in behaviour, practice or condition among the people or systems a programme targets — the level a programme influences but does not fully control.
Output
A concrete good, service or product a programme delivers and directly controls.
Results Framework
The full logframe hierarchy for a project, defining what it is trying to achieve and how that will be measured.
Results-Based Management (RBM)
An approach to programme design and management organized explicitly around a chain of results (activities → outputs → outcomes → goal) rather than around activities alone.
Roll-up (additive / non-additive)
How a partner-level or activity-level target combines into a project total. Additive indicators sum; non-additive (e.g. percentages) never do.
Target
The planned value for an indicator in a given period, set before or alongside data collection.
Theory of Change
The stated explanation of WHY a programme expects one level of its results chain to lead to the next — the assumptions connecting activities to outputs to outcomes to goal.
Workplan activity
A planned, trackable unit of delivery work, linked to a logframe output, with a status and progress percentage.