Social monitoring is also referred to as participatory/ community led/ public monitoring is evolving as a powerful tool for the empowerment of local communities in their effort to bring transparency and effectiveness to public institutions. Social Monitoring is a practice which engages the civil society in ensuring transparency and accountability of projects/ programmes and hence plays an integral role as a mechanism to exact social accountability.

Browsing the information on social monitoring should help the reader understand the concept of social monitoring and its utility as a Social accountability tool, explore potential areas for employing the social monitoring tools and identify major tools for social monitoring and comprehend their practical application.