Format:
1 online resource (223 pages)
ISBN:
9780821395059
Series Statement:
World Bank Training
Content:
Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis on government performance has led a number of governments to create formal systems for monitoring and evaluating their performance--on a regular, planned, and systematic basis--with the objective of improving it. The focus of this book is on these government monitoring and evaluation (M and E) systems: what they comprise, how they are built and managed, and how they can be used to improve government performance.
Content:
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Framework and Principles of M&E Systems -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- The Motivation for This Book -- What Is a Successful M&E System: Sustainability and Utilization -- The Institutional Dimension of M&E -- Framework and Principles of M&E Systems -- Components and Tools of M&E Systems -- M&E Systems in Context -- Frontier Issues -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Framework for Monitoring and Evaluation -- Why M&E Systems Improve Government Performance -- What Does a Government M&E System Look Like? -- The Three Defining Characteristics of Successful M&E Systems -- Building a Government M&E System- What to Do and What Not to Do -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Defining the Type of M&E System: Clients, Intended Uses, and Utilization -- Who Produces M&E Information and Why -- Types of M&E Systems and Intended Uses -- Revealed Demand: Actual Utilization of M&E Information -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Conducting Diagnoses of M&E Systems and Capacities -- A Checklist of Topics for a Diagnosis -- Diagnostic Issues -- Chapter 5. Key Steps to Design and Implement M&E for Individual Country Service Agencies -- Prerequisites -- Basic Steps -- Making the M&E Process More Useful -- Incorporating Program Evaluations -- Uses of M&E Information -- Inter-governmental Concerns -- Cost of M&E -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6. M&E Systems and the Budget -- What Are the Different Tools, and How Do They Fit Existing Contexts? -- The Institutional Roles-Who Does What? -- How Best to Implement M&E-Budget Links -- Key Lessons -- Chapter 7. Use of Social Accountability Tools and Information Technologies in Monitoring and Evaluation -- Social Accountability Tools -- Information Technology for Social Accountability Tools-General Issues.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821387771
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821387771
Language:
English
Author information:
López Acevedo, Gladys
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