Commitment Monitoring Workshop

On 3rd June 2008, selected Members of the Forum were invited to participate in a Monitoring Workshop, to discuss the way forward, including a session on exchange of practice with the EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.

The monitoring of the commitments is a challenge for all organisations. One of the main points being that monitoring is not about discussing if you like or approve of the commitment or not, but rather try to be as objective as possible and ask: has the organisation done what they said they would do?

The monitoring process should include the following four principles:

Relevance - What do you think you're doing, what is the aim of you're commitments, to help ten people or to help ten thousand people?

Objective - what is your objective? to sell more, to help?

Inputs - How much time? how much effort? how much money has gone into the commitment?

Outputs - what is coming out of this? it is not necessary to show the ultimate goal, or overarching benefit, but progress reports, data, quantitative measurements to show progress are necessary (outputs are different from outcomes as they are more easily measurable)
Presentations made by speakers are available on the DG Sanco Website:

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/alcohol/Forum/alcohol_forum_en.htm