What Is Concurrent Monitoring of CSR Activities? Concurrent monitoring — also called program monitoring — is the periodic review of a CSR project's activities while the project is still being implemented. Rather than checking on an NGO only once at the start, before the grant is disbursed, or once at the end, after the project closes, concurrent monitoring sits in between: it is the ongoing, real-time check on how a funded project is actually progressing on the ground. In pra