Through this field guide, we have highlighted examples from the Sustainable Food Lab Community and the Lean Research Community. The practices are not a comprehensive list of lean practices, but rather, a set of lean practices that researchers and monitoring and evaluation specialists have used in their recent monitoring, evaluation, and research activities.
Improve the quality of information gathered through research, monitoring, and evaluation;
* Increase the usefulness of findings for research participants and stakeholders;
* Ensure the process and outputs of research, monitoring and evaluation benefit study participants and their communities, as well as donors and decision-makers.