Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems: Better evidence, better policies, better development results

This book from UNICEF provides a number of chapters considering why country-led monitoring and evaluation systems are important and some best practice examples of how they have been used.

Contents

Part 1 Why country-led monitoring and evaluation systems?

• Enhancing evidence-based policy making through country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Evaluating development. Is the country the right unit of account?
• The strategic intent. Understanding strategic intent is the key to successful country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Supporting partner country ownership and capacity in development evaluation. The OECD DAC evaluation network.
• Country-led evaluations. Learning from experience.
• Country-led impact evaluation. A survey of development practitioners.
• The role of national, regional and international evaluation organizations in strengthening country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Bringing statistics to citizens: a “must” to build democracy in the XXI century
• Proactive is the magic word.

Part 2 Good practices in country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

• Building monitoring and evaluation systems to improve government performance.
• Getting the logic right. How a strong theory of change supports programmes which work!
• RealWorld Evaluation: conducting evaluations under budget, time, data and political constraints
• Strengthening country data collection systems. The role of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
• Strengthening country data dissemination systems. Good practices in using DevInfo
• Making data meaningful. Writing stories about numbers.