• Budget process reforms and MTEFs
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• • Evaluation
  • Impact assessment
  • Monitoring
• Public Expenditure Reviews
• Public Finance Diagnostics
• Public Service Reform, Capacity Building, Training
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative surveys
• Statistical and econometric analysis

Monitoring

Monitoring is the ongoing process of assessing whether a programme is being implemented according to plan. This includes reviewing whether resources are being mobilised and utilised, whether activities are being undertaken, and whether the intended outputs and outcomes are being achieved. This process may apply, in varying ways, both to particular projects or programmes and to government-wide sector strategies or multi-sector poverty reduction strategies. It includes both day-to-day management activities and less frequent progress reviews. OPM has supported all elements of the monitoring process.

The development of public financial management systems and Public Expenditure Reviews strengthen the monitoring of inputs.

OPM also supports the monitoring of programme outputs, outcomes and impact. This includes the identification of appropriate monitoring indicators, the development of monitoring frameworks and strategies, and the design and implementation of monitoring systems. This includes using quantitative data from routine management sources and surveys. OPM can review, analyse and quality assure the data they produce.

At it broadest, OPM has worked with countries in developing national monitoring systems which are supported and appropriate for the national statistical system.The growing needs of national indicator systems include harmonising indicators for Poverty Reduction Strategies with those needed to monitor budget support performance; with the Ms and with other national policy monitoring systems including those such as Vision 2020.OPM has expertise in developing monitoring systems which are based on the available national statistics and, where necessary, developing suitable governance and statistical planning mechanisms to supply the necessary data for the indicators. This brings together OPM’s experience in poverty monitoring and evaluation and support to national statistical systems.

OPM also supports monitoring in particular sectors, including health and education and of single or multi-sector development programmes. This sometimes includes undertaking independent expert missions to review sector or programme progress.

Support may also include the use of qualitative and participatory approaches, where appropriate. Qualitative research is particularly effective when combined with quantitative instruments to provide explanatory depth to patterns and trends emerging from survey data, or to identify specific outcome issues that can be monitored through survey instruments. Participatory methods can also be effective for monitoring, generating both qualitative and quantitative data, but with an additional commitment to local ownership and control of data generation and analysis.

Project Examples

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