Research Catalog

Title

How to build M&E systems to support better government / Keith Mackay.

Author

Mackay, Keith Robin, 1951-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2007.

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Additional Authors

World Bank. Independent Evaluation Group

Description

ix, 157 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

The purpose of this volume is to help governments in their efforts to build, strengthen, and fully institutionalize their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, not as an end in itself but in support of improved government performance-in other words, sound governance. The volume brings together the considerable experience accumulated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) in its longstanding program of support for governments and Bank staff in their efforts to build M&E systems. It also draws on the growing body of literature from other sources on this issue. There is currently a great deal of emphasis on results and on being able to demonstrate performance. Part one starts by focusing on exactly what M&E has to offer to governments. Part two focuses on the experience of several countries that have succeeded in building a well functioning government M&E system. Part three analyzes the lessons from building government M&E systems in these and many other countries, both developing and developed. Ways to strengthen a government M&E system are presented in Part four. Part five maps out those issues where international experience with government M&E systems is not well understood or well documented. Finally, part six provides a series of commonly asked questions on M&E and their answers.

Alternative Title

• How to build M and E systems to support better government
• How to build monitoring and evaluation systems to support better government

Subject

• Public administration > Evaluation
• Public administration > Evaluation > Case studies
• Public administration > Economic aspects
• Public administration > Economic aspects > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• "World Bank Independent Evaluation Group."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- What is M&E?--an M&E primer -- Contribution of M&E to sound governance -- Key trends influencing countries--why countries are building M&E systems -- Good practice countries--what does "success" look like? -- Chile -- Colombia -- Australia -- The special case of Africa -- Building government M&E systems--lessons from experience -- Incentives for M&E--how to create demand -- The importance of country diagnosis -- Preparing action plans -- Frontier issues -- Concluding remarks.

ISBN

• 9780821371916 (pbk.)
• 0821371916 (pbk.)
• 9780821371923 (electronic)
• 0821371924 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2007023126

OCLC

• 144570819
• SCSB-11444452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library