Policy and Budget Monitoring and Evaluation

1. Policy and Budget Monitoring and Evaluation An Introduction CABRI/WBI Budget Management and Public Financial Accountability Training Workshop 18 – 20 June 2007 Alta Fölscher

2. Monitoring and Evaluation System • Not a luxury • Does not need to be sophisticated from the start • Integrated in all of budget process • Outputs from system at basis of planning and budgeting • In-year monitoring • Ex post • At all levels • Within ministries / programmes • From centre • External and independent

3. Monitoring and Evaluation Systems • Monitoring and evaluation • Separate concepts • Separate elements of same system • Monitoring: are plans being implemented; are objectives being achieved • Evaluation: were things done right; were the right things done

4. Requirements • Both by institutions themselves and independent • Transparency • Integrity of information • But, most important • Elements of integration • Centre of Government; Donors • Instruments, particularly if standing instruments • Standing indicators and targets • Ownership of measures and targets • Line knows their own business best • But independent oversight of choice of measures: feasibility and stretch • Process • Not mechanistic, but basis for discussion • Important is not the information, but how it is used • Capacity INTEGRATION and PROCESS

5. Instruments of a M&E system Important that system has good coverage of elements