The strategic intent of country-led M&E systems Live Webcast Knowledge Sharing Event 1st December 2009 DevInfo 1

This series of webcasts are based on the book published by UNICEF in partnership with key international institutions Authors: 21 global evaluation leaders Partnership: UNICEF, WB, UNECE, IDEAS, IOCE, DevInfo and MICS Available for free download at: http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/resources_10597.html

The recording of the previous webcast events are available at http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/resources_11137.html First event on Country-led M&E systems with Marco Segone, Oumul Ba Tall, Denis Jobin Second event on Strengthening country-led M&E systems. Good practices in using Devinfo with Nicolas Pron and Kris Oswalt Third event on Real Word Evaluation with Jim Rugh and Michael Bamberger Fourth event on Promoting country-led development evaluations with Finbar O’Brien and Hans Lundgren Fifth event on Ten steps to results-based M&E systems with Ray Rist and Jody Kusek

The strategic intent of country-led M&E systems Introduction and kick-off questions Marco Segone, Senior Evaluation Specialist, Systemic Management, UNICEF Evaluation Office, New York, and former Vice President, IOCE E-mail: msegone@unicef.org 4

but no technical rigour The “quality” challenge: How to match technical rigour and policy relevance? Technical rigour but no policy relevance Policy relevance but no technical rigour Better evidence, technically rigorous and policy relevant. 5

Country-led M&E systems: matching technical rigour with policy relevance Countries (and not donors) lead and own the evaluation process by determining: what policy or programme will be evaluated (including donors coordination and alignment) what evaluation questions will be asked what methods will be used what analytical approach will be undertaken how findings will be communicated how findings will be used 6

Key questions What is the strategic intent? Why is strategic intent so important for country-led monitoring and evaluation systems? 7