M&E Capacity Development
in the AfCoP-MfDR and the Case in
Ethiopia
Tamirat Yacob (tamiratyc@gmail.com)
AfCoP M&E CMT
and
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ethiopia
Outline
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MfDR and CoPs
AfCoP
Management and support of the AfCoP
How the CoP functions
Achievements as an AfCoP (results/impacts in the AfCoP)
M&E and Capacity Development in the AfCoP
AfCoP and CAP Scan
“lessons” on evaluation capacity development in Ethiopia
Conclusion
Managing for Development Results
• Managing for Development Results (MfDR) means
focusing on development performance and on
sustainable improvements in country outcomes
• MfDR principles: focus the dialogue on results; align
programming, M&E with results; keep measurement
and reporting simple; Manage for ,not by, results; Use
results information for learning and decision making
Community of Practice
• Community of Practice (CoP) is defined as an informal
network group of people who share common sense of
purpose and desire to exchange knowledge and
experiences in an area of shared interest
African Community of Practice on MfDR
• Two regional workshops organized by OECD/DAC and the
Governments of Uganda and Burkina Faso in June 2006 gave a
call for the creation of mutual learning opportunities.
• The African Community of Practice on Managing for
Development Results (AfCoP-MfDR) launched in Feb. 2007 at
the third International Round Table in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Vision of the AfCoP: to facilitate good MfDR practices
through information exchange and to provide capacity
development opportunities for results management among
countries on the African continent
• Mission of the AfCoP: provide a platform for the exchange of
experience and knowledge among practitioners who seek to
develop and expand their capacity in MfDR
AfCoP Members
• Member: 500+(580,
June 2009)
• African Countries:35
• Other countries: 29
• Agencies/Donors:
14
• Women: 146
• Men:429
• Languages: 2
Monitoring and Evaluation in the AfCoP
• Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Team
- Develop MfDR capacity of CoP members with the goal of enhancing
country institutional capacities
• Monitoring and Evaluation Team
- Monitor and Evaluate policies and activities of the AfCoP based on the
annual work plan
M&E Capacity Development in the AfCoP
• M&E related discussions in the AfCoP (English/French)
• Integrated M&E and MIS under the IRBM in 2008
• In 2009 discussion topics would include:
- Evaluation of the impact of development policies/strategies;
- Results-based evaluation;
- New implications for monitoring and evaluation of programs and
development projects under an MfDR approach;
- Monitoring & Evaluation using KPIs – what are the pitfalls?
Gaps in M&E Capacity Development
• The AfCoP is not providing M&E capacity building trainings as
much as needed as resources are not abundant (hands on M&E
tools and methodologies trainings/workshops/forums are highly
needed)
• M&E knowledge and experience is so diverse among us
• We are more focused on discussions and less hands on
experience in M&E system designs to our members, etc
• Joint evaluation works experience shortage
• Available M&E experts who can moderate and train people are
not many
• Resources are not abundant in the AfCoP
We seek for new partnership for M&E CD in the AfCoP
• M&E, Statistics, Planning and budgeting, implementation capacities
are “weak” in Africa
• AfCoP’s Capacity is the “mirror image” of capacity in the continent
• How and What type of working partnerships?
- Increase the partnership of CoPs and related Networks (South-South and
North-south)
- Learning by doing (participate in different assessment exercises and future
works: e.g. joint evaluation exercises)
- Trainings, workshops and forums to share experiences using existing
platforms
- Experts in networks like this one and donor evaluation managers are
welcomed to join and can train members, share their experience,
M&E Capacity Development in Ethiopia
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In Ethiopia development partners act like as a
consortium called Development Assistance
Group(DAG)
8 million USD has been put in place from the DAG
for M&E capacity development in the country for the
PASDEP period (2005/06 – 2009/10)
Welfare Monitoring System Program (M&E system)
since 1996
Three main actors in the M&E system:
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
Federal Executive bodies (line ministries); and,
Central Statistical Agency (CSA)
M&E Capacity Dev’t in Ethiopia
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Sectoral M&E systems: education, road,
health, water and sanitation in that order are
relatively more systematized and well linked
to the grass root level than the monitoring
system for other sectors.
 Agriculture’s is weak and a lot is undergoing to improve
it
 Agriculture Statistics working team
 Water and Sanitation M&E system building
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The National Strategy for the Development
of Statistics (NSDS) is to push the statistical
capacity development agenda forward in
Ethiopia
M&E Capacity Development in Ethiopia
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Capacity Development in the CSA
Branch Networking for data collection and
transfer to HQ
Satellite mapping for agricultural surveys
Data scanning mechanism/e.g. The 2007 National
Population and Housing Census/
National Strategy for the Development of
Statistics (NSDS)
- Quality assurance, the speed of analysis, along
with the speed and network of dissemination
Lessons learned in the M&E systems
of Ethiopia
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More emphasis to build the capacity of the sectoral M&E
systems of Agriculture and Water and Sanitation in Ethiopia
Use of country systems by bilateral and multilateral donors
is now increasing
Emerging good practice: The Aid Management Platform(AMP)
system for better Aid management (The 2008 Third Source
Book on good practice on MfDR, OECD and the WB)
Existing Data source use has increased in preparation of
Country Assistance Frameworks and country missions
Country systems are now becoming strong and strong as lot
of initiatives and capacity development has been going in the
area in collaboration with development partners
Conclusions
• The AfCoP plays a role in facilitating and exchanging
M&E CD initiatives for its member countries so it is
advantages to make partnership and work together
• Financial, in kind and expert assistance are needed
• Countries should emphasise capacity develop of their
“weak” M&E systems in collaboration/jointly with
donors
• Enhanced and coordinated effort is needed, (e.g. for
better aid management) using country systems and
manage for development results
Thank you!
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