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EVALUATION CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT- The Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Capacities to Improve Government Performance in Uganda
(Operations Evaluation Department, 2003-10) Hauge, Arild O.
There is a growing awareness that Uganda's progress with poverty reduction does not match the rate of increase in budget resources for the social sectors; there are indications of poor effectiveness and value-for-money in public service delivery. These concerns are focusing attention on the priority for a better understanding of development effectiveness-what works, what does not, in which contexts, and why. Uganda's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems have the potential to provide this much-needed understanding. A large volume of information is currently produced by different M&E systems and practices that have been established in Uganda emanating from domestic and external concerns with accountability, governance, public sector reform, and financial management. But the disparate information flows can create confusion about goals and complicate policy analysis. Parallel systems lead to duplication and waste in data collection, and the M&E workload diverts attention away from productive service delivery. The M&E systems also sometimes reward managers for good paperwork rather than contribution to poverty eradication. Although arguably documenting compliance with nominal accountability rules, Uganda's M&E systems need to increase the emphasis on the results that follow from public action. M&E data are often of poor quality, with missing, inaccurate, or outdated information. The distinction between observed reality and what is hoped-for is blurred. In this environment, donors when each brings a different set of rules and requirements have been part of the M&E problem rather than part of its solution. The Uganda experience helps to dispel the notion that increased M&E, in and of its own, will lead to improved results orientation. What Uganda needs is not more, but better, M&E.
Initial Considerations
(0000)
Monitoring is often seen as the poor relation of appraisal and evaluation, the assumption being that monitoring is not really necessary because everyone knows what is happening anyway even without recourse to a structured information flow. In practice the pressures of the daily routine often obscure from view the general trends in a project's work. People may think that they know what is happening in their own project, but a concern with detail can impede progress towards attainment of long-term objectives. As participants become caught up in realising certain limited, short-term goals such as the maintenance of plant, management of resources or the organisation of specific events they may fail to monitor the impact of the project in the operational area (for example its effect on prices, mortality rates, hygiene standards etc.).
Monitoring: Definitions and Tools
(UNDP, 0000)
The UNDP Program and Project Manual (PPM) gives the following definition of monitoring: "Monitoring is the continuous oversight of the implementation of project. It seeks to ensure that inputs deliveries, work schedules, the production of targeted outputs and other required actions are proceeding according to plan.
Montoring and Evaluation of Development Projects: A Conceptual Framwork and the Asian Experience
(1993-07-07) Khan, M Adil
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are important tools in project planning and management. The basis of M&E is distrust with human ability to control and co-ordinate events by one individual or a group of individuals or by a single institution to assure quality and timely implementation of projects and programmes, indicating the need for monitoring; (ii) secondly, it is the distrust with human capacity to foresee entirely the project logic and/or to ensure desirable impacts that indicate the need for evaluation. While the former is mor process orientated, the latter relates to ex-post situations. However, to understand the full implications of monitoring and evaluation. one must also understand the different stages and processes involved in the project cycle. While referring to monitoring and evaluation, this paper mainly talks about ex-post or post-planning monitoring and evaluation and outlines a framework which sees M&E as a stage activity relating to: (i) Input/Output Monitoring (IOM) during implementation, (ii) Project Completion Report (PCR) at the time of termination of a project or an activity, (iii) Sustainability Monitoring (SM) during operation and maintenance stage, and (iv) Impact Evaluation (IE) after 4-5 years of completion, operation and maintenance of a project. This four stage M&E activity requires different methodologies and is indispensable for the successful implementation, operation, maintenance and impact of projects and programmes.
Seeing Like a Citizen: Re-claiming Citizenship in a Neoliberal World
(Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, 2005-11) Gaventa, John
This paper argues that neoliberal frameworks reshaping citizenship, particularly through market-based approaches and thin democracy, limit the capacity for citizens to express their rights and seek accountability. The 'seeing like a citizen' approach is presented as a counterpoint to neoliberal interpretations of citizenship, advocating for a more active role for citizens in claiming rights and challenging power structures. Drawing on research from multiple working groups within the Development Research Centre (DRC), the paper explores the dynamics of citizenship in the context of neoliberalism, emphasizing the importance of active citizen participation for social justice and development.
Seminar on Political Party Reforms India International Centre
(2006-08-23)
Political parties are cornerstones of democratic governance. They not only offer conduits for the expression of citizens' views, but they also enable the varied social and political identities that play out their interests in the legislatures. They throw up leadership; they offer vehicles for the socialization of politics. In this meeting, we propose to examine the working of our country's political parties in the context of Constitution of India, prevailing laws of the country and the constitutions of respective political parties. Specific aspects that we have identified as essentials for a political party are as follows. These may be modified as a result of the meeting. Political parties must conform to these essentials for survival of a healthy democracy in our country