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Roadmap for Monitoring and Evaluation: Insights and Reflection

This session outlines the roadmap for effective Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) practices. It begins with housekeeping updates and addresses the goals for the day. Participants will engage with key resources from organizations like UNICEF and the World Bank, and reflect critically on the tensions between insider and outsider roles in evaluations. The session emphasizes the importance of using qualified data collection methods and understanding the political context in M&E processes. Participants will also provide feedback to shape future discussions.

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Roadmap for Monitoring and Evaluation: Insights and Reflection

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  1. A-801 Wednesday Section Wednesday, 31st October, 2012 11 – 12.30 p.m.

  2. Roadmap for today • Housekeeping • Where are we? • What are the goals? • Application • Feedback – sticky notes

  3. Housekeeping • Paper II is over!!! • Office hours? • Paper III – Dec. 20th – we will start looking at this more closely once Paper II is back (Vet. Day)

  4. Where are we-

  5. M&E - • One of the most impt. aspects of this course - make sure you walk away with it • Resources – • International Initiative for Impact Evaluation • J-PAL • UNESCO IIEP • UNICEF Innocenti Research Center • UNICEF Evaluation Database • World Bank Evaluation Database • Other classes – • HaiyanHua’s M & E class • Tom Kahne - Program Evaluation

  6. Weiss Reading • What does she have to say? Summary? • What are the tensions that might arise in the evaluation process?

  7. Monitoring & Evaluation There is a difference between M and E! Monitoring: The gathering of evidence to show what progress has been made in the implementation of programs. Focuses on inputs and outputs. Evaluation: Measuring changes in outcomes and evaluating the impact of specific interventions on those outcomes.

  8. Monitoring & Evaluation

  9. Reflections - • What are the tensions b/w an insider & outsider role as an evaluator? • If time is money, how does one implement process? • What are the ways in which impact might be considered? How might cultural differences impact these? • Creating local capacity for communities to monitor their own programs & hold states accountable for the delivery of basic services? • Dissemination to the beneficiaries?!

  10. Implementation Issues? • Political Economy • Policy Context • Methods

  11. Political Economy • What is the policy purpose? • Test innovations & defend budget • Allocate budget to certain programs • Pressure to demonstrate aid effectiveness and scale up • Answer electorate • Reaching Targets

  12. Policy Context • What questions need answering? • Who are the stakeholders who want answers? Do they also have the same amount of clout? • What policy questions need answers? • How much of a change would determine success? • What does the government really need, and what will it use?

  13. Methods • Operationalizing the outcome • Process/outcome indicators • Channels of impact – theory of change • Underlying assumptions [log frame] • Who has access to the program? Are they the same as the intended beneficiaries? • Data collection – time vs. cost • Analysis • Dissemination

  14. Things to think about • What ? • Type of information and data to be consolidated • How? • Procedures and approaches for data collections and analysis • Why? • Why are we doing this – does it support the program/policy • When? • Freq. of data collection, reporting • Who? • Responsibilities and capacities of focal points and resource persons

  15. Sticky Notes • 1 thing that you enjoyed • 1 thing that you didn’t enjoy as much

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