scholarly journals How to measure monitoring and evaluation system effectiveness?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdourahmane Ba
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
Development Management ◽  
System Effectiveness

Background: Although the roadblocks to development achievement in Africa emerge noticeably from resource scarcity, lack of security and good governance, or poor economic approaches, they also surface from ineffective development management practices. The monitoring and evaluation (ME) systems effectiveness assessment by the World Bank in 2007 revealed little effectiveness, mainly on cases studied in Africa.Objective: This research investigates the framework for monitoring and evaluation system effectiveness as a development management tool and shapes its measurements. It creates a framework that will help understand better the success factors of an effective ME System and how they contribute to improved development management.Methods: A trifold approach was used, which comprises three iterations — Literature review, Case Studies, and Survey. The first revisited the most relevant literature on development management and performance monitoring systems, while the second used a qualitative study of three cases in the West Africa region. The third is a survey of a sample of practitioners and managers in West Africa, where data was analysed using correlations and regressions.Results: There are significant linkages between ‘ME-System Quality’, ‘ME-Information Quality’, and ‘ME-Service Quality’. The results highlighted that the ‘Results-Based Management Practice’ of organisations, the effective ‘Knowledge and Information Management Culture’, including learning, and the ‘Evidence-Based Decision-Making Practice’ are directly influenced by effective ME System.Conclusions: Effective ME System contributes greatly to expand ‘Improved Policy and Program Design’, ‘Improved Operational Decisions’, ‘Improved Tactical and Strategic Decisions’, and ‘Improved Capability to Advance Development Objectives’.

scholarly journals Analysis of structural and organisational arrangements of monitoring and evaluation status for the public sector in Zambia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 504-527
Author(s):  
Vincent Kanyamuna
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
The Public ◽  
What Works ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Working Groups

This study was an exploratory investigation of the prevailing status of Zambia’s public sector monitoring and evaluation (M&E) structural and organisational arrangements. As a good governance and accountability instrument, a country’s whole-of-government monitoring and evaluation system (WoGM&ES) is supposed to be functionally operated if it was to offer desired benefits. But how do you properly fix a government’s M&E system? Conducting a rigorous diagnostic exercise on the existing system gives a chance to know what works, what does not work and reasons why. It was the objective of this research to critically bring out elements that required attention and those that needed scaling up as well as sustaining. Using the diagnostic checklist comprised of ten (10) components and the LEADS scoring system, different statuses about M&E structural and organisational arrangements for Zambia’s government M&E system were assessed and analysed. The elements assessed include coordination and oversight; joint sector reviews; working groups; ownership; incentives; and linkage with statistical office; horizontal integration; vertical upward integration; vertical downward integration; and link with projects. The findings have shown that overall, the structural and organisational arrangements (that is, structure & linkages) are weak with a LEADS score of point 2—meaning only elements existed. Further in-depth analysis of intra-component status showed that while other elements were less developed, others were fairly well implemented. The diagnosis results are critical to the Zambian government and its stakeholders in knowing which aspects to improve in the effort to build, strengthen and sustain a stronger WoGM&ES going forward.    

Monitoring and Evaluation of Housing Service Delivery in Zimbabwean Local Authorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Nyemudzai Mlambo ◽  
Ivan Govender
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Housing Service ◽  
Midlands Province ◽  
The Government

This study investigates the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation systems for housing service delivery in local authorities in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has been experiencing poor housing service delivery and the Midlands province is characterized by housing backlog, poor quality housing projects, lack of housing finance, lack of technical capacity, and no new partnerships. Despite the Government of Zimbabwe introducing monitoring and evaluation tools in all public institutions to achieve good governance and effective housing service delivery, this did not fully address the housing problems experienced in the province. The research utilized the mixed-methods approach with a case study research design using urban and rural local authorities in the Midlands Province. The article recommended that the three tiers of government should work collaboratively with the aid of a monitoring and evaluation system to solve housing delivery problems. This study is critical for local government housing delivery performance management.

scholarly journals Good governance in strategic planning of local development in rural and urban-rural gminas of the eastern peripheral voivodeships of Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (50) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Danuta Guzal-Dec ◽  
Łukasz Zbucki ◽  
Agnieszka Kuś
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Rural

AbstractThe work aimed to determine the scope of the good governance approach in the local development planning of local governments of rural and urban-rural gminas in the eastern peripheral voivodeships of Poland (Lubelskie, Podlaskie and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships) and how the implementation of good governance principles in the process of elaborating and implementing local development strategies correlates with assessments of the strategy's suitability as a development management tool. The research used methods of analysis and criticism of the literature, statistical analysis and a survey method using an interview questionnaire addressed to local government authorities. According to our research, especially at the stage of developing the strategy, actions were taken regarding local-community and local-authority participation and active communication between the two, but a lower level of community participation was found at the implementation stage. There was a statistically significant relationship between adopting the principle of participation and accountability in preparing and implementing the strategy and how suitable the strategy was assessed to be as a tool for development management. It seems reasonable to apply the principles of good governance more widely in planning local development, not only while developing the strategy, but also in its implementation.

Educate! Developing a Theory of Change for “Changemakers”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Kay Gugerty ◽  
Dean Karlan
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Evaluation Plan ◽  
Final Theory

A theory of change can build consensus on a program’s vision and guide the development of a right-fit monitoring and evaluation system. This case examines how the Uganda-based youth empowerment NGO Educate! used the theory of change process to clearly define its intended impact and decide how to measure it. After analyzing the process Educate! used to develop its theory of change, readers will be able to discuss the value of gathering internal perspectives and conducting field research to develop a theory of change. Readers will also assess how successive iterations of the theory of change provide clarity on program design and objectives and determine whether the final theory of change is sufficient to design a monitoring and evaluation plan that adheres to CART principles.

Conceptual aspects of modernization of the industrial development management system in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Lyubomyr P. Kazmir
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Full Account ◽  
New Model ◽  
Industrial Management ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Model Of Management ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Globalization of the economy, revolutionary technological changes in production processes, and trade liberalization necessitate the deepening of research on theoretical and methodological aspects of the formation of new models to manage industrial development. The paper highlights a number of theoretical provisions that can serve as conceptual guidelines for the modernization of the industrial management system in Ukraine in the context of modern globalization and technological challenges. In particular, the paper emphasizes that the intellectualization of industrial production necessitates the intellectualization of management processes. The specifics of strategizing the innovative development of the industry are considered. Recommendations for the formation of a "scientific and information shell" of the management system based on the coordination of government, business, educational and scientific institutions, NGOs in the modernization of industrial policy and implementation of a new model of industrial development management are suggested. The basic functions of modernization of the industrial management system (worldview, epistemological, genetic, adaptive, social, economic, ecological, and political) are highlighted. The fundamental schemes to implement the new model of management of industrial development and its intellectualization at the macro level are offered. The importance of the regional level of modernization of industrial development management is noted. In this context, the concept of «smart specialization» based on the idea of taking full account of the benefits and capacity of a particular region, and «good governance» concept is emphasized to deserve special attention.

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