Building a performance-based monitoring and evaluation system: The challenges facing developing countries
| Author | Ray C. Rist,Jody Zall Kusak |
| DOI | 10.1177/1035719X0100100205 |
| Published date | 01 December 2001 |
| Date | 01 December 2001 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
14 Evaluation Journal of Australasia, Vol. 1 (new series), No. 2, December 2001
Introduction
Over the past two decades, there has been a movement within governments across
the globe to reform and reshape the ways in which they function. Demands by
citizens for their governments to be accountable for results, transparent, and to
provide more efficient and effective services echo now from continent to continent.
The paradox of citizens asking for more services and programs despite steady-state
or even fewer government resources, for more responsiveness from fewer civil
servants, and for accountability while pressing for decentralization have left
governments experimenting with a multitude of strategies in response. These
pressures are helping to drive a global public management revolution.
While this revolution has taken hold mostly in the OECD countries, it has not
stopped there. Indeed, in the developing world, a poorly functioning public sector
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Evaluation Journal of Australasia, Vol. 1 (new series), No. 2, December 2001, pp 14–23
The challenges facing developing countries
Jody Zall Kusek is a Senior
Evaluation Officer at the World
Bank. Ray C. Rist is a Senior
Evaluation Officer in the World
Bank, Washington, DC1.
Building a performance-based
monitoring and evaluation system
Jody Zall Kusak
Ray C. Rist
There are growing pressures in countries throughout the
world to improve the performance of their public sectors.
One strategy now being employed in both developed and
developing countries is to design and construct
performance-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
systems so as to be able to track the
results produced (or not) by governments.
This paper describes a 10-step approach
to the design and construction of such
M&E systems that is currently being
deployed in a number of developing
countries. The overall strategy builds on the
experiences of developed countries –
especially those in the OECD – but also
reflects the particular challenges and
difficulties faced by developing countries
that can range from a lack of skill capacity
to poor governance structures to systems
that are far from transparent. The last
section of the paper addresses in detail the
first of the 10 steps – that of assessing whether a country is,
in fact, ready to begin the process of M&E system design
and construction.
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