1 / 13

Monitoring and Evaluation: Good Practices, Common Challenges, and New Strategies

Monitoring and Evaluation: Good Practices, Common Challenges, and New Strategies. Maureen Jaffe & Misty Heggeness Monitoring and Evaluation Team May 31, 2011. Outline of Presentation. Good Practices and Challenges from Past Evaluations New Monitoring and Evaluation Tools

chaim
Download Presentation

Monitoring and Evaluation: Good Practices, Common Challenges, and New Strategies

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Monitoring and Evaluation: Good Practices, Common Challenges, and New Strategies Maureen Jaffe & Misty Heggeness Monitoring and Evaluation Team May 31, 2011

  2. Outline of Presentation • Good Practices and Challenges from Past Evaluations • New Monitoring and Evaluation Tools • Impact Evaluation Case Study (Bolivia)

  3. The Role of Monitoring and Evaluation in OCFT-funded Projects • Learning function: • Reveal strengths and weaknesses of different strategies • Identify good practices and lessons learned for future projects • Process improvements: • Provide feedback on what is working, what is not • Identify challenges, inform adjustments • Accountability: • Has project been implemented as planned? • Were expected outputs produced/delivered? U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking

  4. Overview of Lessons Learned: Education Strategies • Good Practices • Focus on Educational Quality and Relevance • Keep children engaged and interested • Teacher training, innovative learning strategies • Safe, “child-friendly” schools • Provision of School Meals • After-School/Enrichment Programs • Common Challenges • Increased Class Size due to influx of students • Transitioning older children into school

  5. Overview of Lessons Learned: Vocational Training • Good Practices • Context and gender-sensitive • Determine market needs with good market study • Facilitate transition to adequate, gainful employment • Coordinate with government for official recognition and certification • Common Challenges • Inadequate funding leads less comprehensive interventions • Apprenticeships must be monitored

  6. Overview of Lessons Learned: Income-Generating Activities • “When I eat sand, my children eat sand.” • – parent of beneficiary, Benin • Good Practices • Consider linkages and partnerships • Conduct quality market studies • Incorporate business, marketing, literacy and numeracy, as needed • Common Challenges • Ensuring adequate funding • Finding experienced organizations and personnel with business and marketing skills

  7. Overview of Lessons Learned: Sustainability • Good Practices • Focusing on sustainability from beginning • Active involvement of key stakeholders from inception • Build on/integrate into existing efforts • Build local capacity to take on issue • Common Challenge • Lack of Resources • Staff turnover in government institutions • Relatively short implementation period

  8. New Strategies in Evaluation • Success should be judged by results, and data is a powerful tool to determine results. We can't ignore facts. We can't ignore data. • President Barack Obama, July 24, 2009

  9. Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation (CM&E) Plans • Identify evaluation opportunities based on project strategies • Plan for evaluations based on project design and strategies • Thoughtful and intentional design of evaluation at project design stage • Project management and evaluation staff work closely together • CM&E plans are living documents used as a management tool to improve service delivery and project outcomes

  10. Evaluation activities to be carried out during the life of the project implementation evaluations short- and long-term assessments Monitoring mechanisms and processes Roles and responsibilities in M&E What is in the CM&E plans? • Monitoring indicators (common and project specific) • PMP • Impact evaluation methodology • Data collection • Baseline • Follow-up • Other data collection

  11. Undertake a more substantial investment of resources in monitoring and evaluation, including with a focus on rigorous and high-quality impact evaluations. -President Obama’s Global Development Policy (2010) What works? Was there a difference? What are the benefits? Can it be attributed to the program? Why does it work? Accountability Replicate and scale-up interventions that work Rigorous Impact Evaluation

  12. Impact Evaluation Panel Discussion: Case Study of Desarrollo y Autogestión (DyA) - Bolivia • Discussants: • Matthew Holtman, Senior Manager, ICF Macro • Maró Guerrero, Project Director, DyA – Bolivia • María Gloria Barreiro, Executive Director, DyA • Moderator: • Misty Heggeness, International Economist, OCFT U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking 12

  13. THANK YOU! Questions? Contact us at: Jaffe.maureen@dol.gov Heggeness.misty@dol.gov

More Related