Publication: Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work : A Capacity Development Toolkit
Date
2009
ISSN
Published
2009
Author(s)
Abstract
There are constant and growing pressures
on governments and organizations around the world to be more
responsive to demands from internal and external
stakeholders for good governance, accountability and
transparency, greater development effectiveness and delivery
of tangible results. Governments, parliaments, citizens, the
private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil
society, international organizations, and donors are all
among stakeholders interested in better performance. As
demands for greater accountability and results have grown,
there is an accompanying need for useful and useable
results-based monitoring and evaluation systems to support
the management of policies, programs, and projects.
Governments and other organizations have many different
kinds of tracking systems as part of their management
toolkits: good human resource systems, financial systems,
and accountability systems. They also need good feedback
systems. A results-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
system is essentially such a feedback system; it is a
management tool to measure and evaluate outcomes, providing
information for governance and decision making. Many
management systems have been missing a feedback component to
enable them to track the consequences of actions. Building
an M&E system gives decision-makers an additional
management tool by providing feedback on performance as a
basis for future improvement.
Citation
“Gorgens, Marelize; Zall Kusek, Jody. 2009. Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work : A Capacity Development Toolkit. © World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2702 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”