Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy, Wales Kathryn Helliwell Research, Monitoring & Evaluation (RME) Team
Why include monitoring too? to highlight different roles of monitoring & evaluation to highlight relationship between monitoring & evaluation monitoring requires attention in its own right!
The monitoring & evaluation relationship context baseline sampling frame identifier
Evaluation questions is there an impact? Result indicators CIEs where possible (at programme & project level) regular surveys of supported businesses TBIEs at project level
Evaluation questions what interventions are most effective (i.e. have the largest impact)? Analysis of repeated surveys (to get large enough samples) comparison of CIE evidence where available consideration of TBIE evidence
Evaluation questions what types of businesses / jobs? area of PMC interest! analysis of monitoring data regular surveys of supported businesses
Other Evaluation questions (mainly qualitative) do we have a good balance of interventions? are we integrating the CCTs effectively? are our processes effective?
Structure, resources, organising principles RME Team will: monitor programmes evaluate programmes advise projects on project level evaluation 10 M&E staff on ERDF & ESF 5 million euros
Learning from Monitoring & evaluation aren’t ends in themselves Collecting business level data is really, really important Need to avoid duplication between project & programme level evaluation
Thank you for listening! Any questions?