1. Policy and Budget Monitoring and Evaluation
An Introduction
CABRI/WBI Budget Management and Public Financial Accountability Training Workshop
18 – 20 June 2007
Alta Fölscher

2. Monitoring and Evaluation System
Not a luxury
Does not need to be sophisticated from the start
Integrated in all of budget process
Outputs from system at basis of planning and budgeting
In-year monitoring
Ex post
At all levels
Within ministries / programmes
From centre
External and independent

3. Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Separate concepts
Separate elements of same system
Monitoring: are plans being implemented; are objectives being achieved
Evaluation: were things done right; were the right things done

4. INTEGRATION and PROCESS
Requirements
Both by institutions themselves and independent
Transparency
Integrity of information
But, most important
Elements of integration
Centre of Government; Donors
Instruments, particularly if standing instruments
Standing indicators and targets
Ownership of measures and targets
Line knows their own business best
But independent oversight of choice of measures: feasibility and stretch
Process
Not mechanistic, but basis for discussion
Important is not the information, but how it is used
Capacity
INTEGRATION and PROCESS

5. Instruments of a M&E system
Inputs
Outputs and Outcomes
Standing reporting and monitoring instruments
In-year monitoring of spending
Performance Assessment frameworks
Financial Audits
Performance Budgeting Systems
Government-wide Performance Frameworks
Performance assessment frameworks
Citizen monitoring
TOR driven instruments
(ad hoc or routine)
Public Expenditure Tracking
Citizen audits
Performance Auditing
Public Expenditure Reviews
Programme evaluation
Customer satisfaction surveys
Important that system has good coverage of elements