Publication: How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government
Date
2007
ISSN
Published
2007
Author(s)
Mackay, Keith
Abstract
The purpose of this volume is to help
governments in their efforts to build, strengthen, and fully
institutionalize their monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
systems, not as an end in itself but in support of improved
government performance-in other words, sound governance. The
volume brings together the considerable experience
accumulated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation
Group (IEG) in its longstanding program of support for
governments and Bank staff in their efforts to build M&E
systems. It also draws on the growing body of literature
from other sources on this issue. There is currently a great
deal of emphasis on results and on being able to demonstrate
performance. Part one starts by focusing on exactly what
M&E has to offer to governments. Part two focuses on the
experience of several countries that have succeeded in
building a well functioning government M&E system. Part
three analyzes the lessons from building government M&E
systems in these and many other countries, both developing
and developed. Ways to strengthen a government M&E
system are presented in Part four. Part five maps out those
issues where international experience with government
M&E systems is not well understood or well documented.
Finally, part six provides a series of commonly asked
questions on M&E and their answers.
Citation
“Mackay, Keith. 2007. How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6851 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”