Legal and policy basis for M&E systems
The legal and policy basis refers to the formal legislative and policy frameworks that underpin the establishment, operation, and integration of M&E practices within government processes. These frameworks provide the official mandate for how M&E should be conducted and how its findings will be used in planning, budgeting, and policy-making.
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Questions to ask
The following questions draw from the GEI's MESA diagnostic assessment tool:
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Where do custodians of the PBM&E systems derive the mandate to provide oversight and coordination of PBM&E at varying levels (for example, constitutions, laws, regulations, and executive powers, including policies)?
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Is there a national monitoring and evaluation policy, a national monitoring policy, or a national evaluation policy?
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Is there a regulation/agreement/long-term development agenda that obliges the government to communicate program results periodically, whether to the population, donors/agencies, for international obligations and/or between ministries?
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Is there a legal requirement or regulation requiring the use of evidence in decision-making?
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Is there national legislation or regulation for monitoring and/or national legislation or regulation for evaluations, or a national policy for monitoring and evaluation?
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If there is a law, regulation, or policy on monitoring and/or evaluation, do they include references to links between:
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(results) monitoring and planning?
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(results) monitoring and the budgetary process?
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(results) monitoring and decision-making in parliament (legislative)?
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(results) monitoring and decision-making in higher levels of government (executive)?
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(results) evaluation and planning?
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(results) evaluation and the budgetary process?
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results) evaluation and decision-making in parliament (legislative)?
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(results) evaluation and decision-making in higher levels of government (executive)?
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If there is a law, regulation, or policy on monitoring and/or evaluation, do they include references to:
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The independence of the evaluation unit(s)?
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The necessary resources and staff of the evaluation unit(s)?
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Requirements or expectations regarding community consultation or engagement in M&E processes
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Ressource
- A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa
- An African approach for gauging the gender effectiveness of national M&E systems: An IDEV article
- Artículo 26 - Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
- Artículo 343 de la Constitución Política de Colombia
- Decreto 1082 de 2015 Sector Administrativo de Planeación Nacional
- Decreto 2167 de 1992 DNP - Departamento Nacional de Planeación
- Decreto 2189 de 2017 - Por el cual se modifica la estructura del Departamento Nacional de Planeación
- Departamento Nacional de Planeación - Resolución 63 de 1994
- Department of State program evaluation policy
- Fortalecimiento del uso y la institucionalidad de las evaluaciones para la toma de decisiones en Colombia
- Ghanaian draft national monitoring and evaluation policy
- Ley 1450 de 2011 - Departamento Administrativo de la Función Pública
- Ley General De Desarrollo Social
- Ley de transparencia y acceso a la información pública del Estado de México y Municipios
- Marco normativo para la evaluación de la política, programas y acciones de desarrollo social en el ámbito federal en México
- National Policy on Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation - Uganda
- National evaluation plan, 2020-2025, South Africa
- National evaluation policy framework - South Africa
- National evaluation policy in Colombia
- National evaluation policy in Malaysia
- National evaluation policy in South Africa
- National evaluation policy in Switzerland
- National monitoring and evaluation policy for Namibia - Draft III
- National policy on public sector monitoring and evaluation
- Niger national evaluation policy
- Policy framework for results-based monitoring & evaluation (RBME) - Afghanistan
- Policy framework for the government-wide monitoring and evaluation system - South Africa
- Politique d’Evaluation nationale en Afrique du Sud
- Política Nacional de Evaluación (PNE) - Costa Rica
- Política de evaluación nacional en Sud África
- Política nacional de evaluación en Malasia
- The emergence of government evaluation systems in Africa: The case of Benin, Uganda and South Africa
- The government monitoring and evaluation system in India: A work in progress
- Zimbabwean national monitoring and evaluation policy
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