From policies to results: Developing capacities for country monitoring and evaluation systems

This book from UNICEF provides a range of articles that demonstrate building capacity and best practice in the development of country led monitoring and evaluation systems.

Contents

Part 1: From policies to results through country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

• Moving from policies to results by developing national capacities for country-led monitoring and evaluation systems. 
• Future trends in evaluation. 
• Measuring the progress of societies. 
• Avoiding failure in public programmes. 
• Evaluating policy. A perspective from multilateral experience. 
• The role of policy analysis in over-coming the implementation challenge.

Part 2: Developing country monitoring and evaluation capacities Strengthening institutional capacities and an enabling environment for country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

• A perspective from the United Nations on national ownership and capacity in evaluation. 
• Gender equality and human rights responsive evaluations: Rethinking approaches. 
• DevInfo and Web 2.0. Strengthening duty bearers demand for high quality data. 
• The professionalization of evaluation. 
• Professionalizing development evaluators. Travelling the road to results. 
• Institutionalizing impact evaluation. A key element in strengthening country-led monitoring and evaluation systems. 
• Evaluation and development. The partnership dimension. 
• Exploring effective strategies for facilitating evaluation capacity development. 
• Use of evaluation training in evaluation capacity building. 
• Utilization-focused evaluations. 
• Empowerment evaluation. 
• Collaborative evaluation. Creating environments to engage stakeholders in evaluation.

Part 3: Good practices and lessons learned from country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

• Monitoring and evaluation in South Africa. Many purposes, multiple systems.
• Colombia’s national monitoring and evaluation system, sinergia. 
• The national monitoring and evaluation system in Sri Lanka. Experiences, good practices, challenges and the way forward. 
• The country-led system to monitor and evaluate public policies in Mali. Good practices and lessons learned. 
• Policies, institutions and personalities. Lessons from Uganda’s experience in monitoring and evaluation. 
• Joint evaluation of the role and contribution of the UN system in South Africa: Lessons learned. 
• The role of Statistical Offices in monitoring and evaluation systems. The Ethiopian Perspective. 
• Building capacity in DevInfo in the CARICOM region.