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Monitoring & Evaluation Principles

Ten Steps to a result-based monitoring and evaluation system (1.08mb)

This handbook is primarily targeted toward officials who are faced with the challenge of managing for results.

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a powerful public management tool that can be used to improve the way governments and organizations achieve results. Just as governments need financial, human resource, and accountability systems, governments also need good performance feedback systems.

There has been an evolution in the field of monitoring and evaluation involving a movement away from traditional implementation based approaches toward new results-based approaches. The introduction of a results-based M&E system takes decisionmakers one step further in assessing whether and how goals are being achieved over time. These systems help to answer the all important "so what" question, and respond to stakeholders' growing demands for results.

 

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