Wednesday, September 26, 2007

[EQ] How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government

           How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government

 

Keith Mackay, Senior Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2007

 

Available online as PDF file [172p.] at:

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/E58A95EC2BF96E378525731D00668AD3/$file/building_monitoring_and_evaluation_systems.pdf

 

“……A growing number of governments are working to improve their performance by creating systems to measure and help them understand their performance. These systems for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are used to measure the quantity, quality, and targeting of the goods and services? the outputs? that the state provides and to measure the outcomes and impacts resulting from these outputs. These systems are also a vehicle to facilitate understanding of the causes of good and poor performance.

 

There are many reasons for the increasing efforts to strengthen government M&E systems. Fiscal pressures and ever-rising expectations from ordinary citizens provide a continuing impetus for governments to provide more government services and with higher standards of quality.  ...."

 

  

Content:

1 Introduction

PART I—WHAT DO MONITORING AND EVALUATION HAVE TO OFFER GOVERNMENTS?

2 What Is M&E?—An M&E Primer

3 Contribution of M&E to Sound Governance

4 Key Trends Influencing Countries—Why Countries Are Building M&E Systems

PART II—SOME COUNTRY EXPERIENCE

5 Good Practice Countries—What Does “Success” Look Like?

6 Chile

7 Colombia

8 Australia

9 The Special Case of Africa

PART III—LESSONS

10 Building Government M&E Systems—Lessons from Experience

11 Incentives for M&E—How to Create Demand

PART IV—HOW TO STRENGTHEN A GOVERNMENT M&E SYSTEM

12 The Importance of Country Diagnosis

13 Preparing Action Plans

PART V—REMAINING ISSUES

14 Frontier Issues

15 Concluding Remarks

PART VI—Q&A: COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Annexes

A: Lessons on How to Ensure Evaluations Are Influential

B: A Country Diagnosis—The Example of Colombia

C: Terms of Reference for an In-Depth Diagnosis of Colombia’s M&E System

D: Evaluation of IEG’s Support for Institutionalizing M&E Systems

E: Glossary of Key Terms in M&E

Endnotes

Bibliography

 

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