Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results
EVALUATION OFFICE
Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results
Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME EVALUATION OFFICE
? Evaluation Office 2002
Evaluation Office United Nations Development Programme One United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017, USA
Design: Colonial Communications Corp., New York, NY, USA
Foreword
The growing demand for development effectiveness is largely based on the realization that producing good "deliverables" is not enough. Efficient or well-managed projects and outputs will lose their relevance if they yield no discernible improvement in development conditions and ultimately in peoples' lives. The United Nations Development Programme is therefore increasing its focus on results and how it can better contribute to them.
To support this strategic shift toward results, UNDP needs a strong and coherent monitoring and evaluation framework that promotes learning and performance measurement. The framework must be simple and user-friendly enough for all staff--project, programme and country office and headquarters--to use it in flexible ways that ultimately enhance the development effectiveness of the organization as a whole. The monitoring and evaluation framework contained in this Handbook is therefore guided by three equally important objectives: to align the monitoring and evaluation system with results-based management; to promote evaluative knowledge and learning around results; and to simplify policies and procedures.
Changes in the mind-set and approach of staff are called for by several elements of this framework, which places a premium on coherent and long-range planning around results; partnering for development change; capacity building for and ownership of monitoring and evaluation; and promoting knowledge, learning and the use of evaluative evidence. A certain amount of training will therefore be necessary. Although we fully expect to learn from the new framework and update it as it evolves, it is important to underscore that its introduction represents a key step forward for UNDP. The tools and policies described here are intended to promote the use of evaluative evidence so that lessons learned inform our management decisions and future programming decisions. Furthermore, they are designed to help UNDP and its partners in development meet the challenge of choosing the right results, testing the accuracy of our development hypotheses and demonstrating how and why change happens where it matters most--in improving the lives of the poor.
HANDBOOK ON MONITORING AND EVALUATING FOR RESULTS
Z?phirin Diabr? Associate Administrator
June 2002
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