making development evaluation more usefull through country-led m&e systems* marco segone,...
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Making development evaluation more usefull through
Country-Led M&E Systems*
Marco Segone, Systemic Management, UNICEF Evaluation Office,
and former Vice President, IOCEE-mail: [email protected]
*: The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policies or views of UNICEF.
Mutual
accounta
bility
Paris Declaration and AAA on Aid Effectiveness
Managing for
results
Harmoni
zation
Alignment Ownership
National ownership and capacity development: National ownership and capacity development: the key ingredients to CLESthe key ingredients to CLES
Partner countries exercise effective leadership over their development policies and strategies
Partner countries exercise leadership in developing and implementing their national development strategies
Donors respect partner country leadership and help strengthen their capacity to exercise it.
Implications to the M&E Function
Strengthen and use country-led M&E systemsM&E capacity development
Paris Declaration Commitment
UNICEF
… in line with the UN General Assembly …
• national Governments have the primary responsibility for coordinating external assistance and evaluating its contribution to national priorities
• mandated the United Nations system to promote national ownership and capacity development, and to make system-wide progress in harmonizing evaluation practices
CLES: what
Country (and not donors) leads and owns the evaluation process by determining:
what policy or programme will be evaluated (including donors coordination and alignment)
what evaluation questions will be asked
what methods will be used
what analytical approach will be undertaken
how findings will be communicated
how findings will be used
Year 2005Evaluation Associations and Networks
International Level
Regional Level
Sub-Regional Level
National Level
International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation – IOCE (organisational membership)
International Development Evaluation Association – IDEAS
(individual membership)
ReLAC IPEN AFrEA AES EES
ACE
AEA CES
13
Countries
36
Countries
7
Countries
10
Countries
5
Countries
Sub-National SWEPNWEA,SEA, WREN, SQEP
11
International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation – IOCE
(Organisational membership)
International Development Evaluation Association – IDEAS
(Individual membership)
Source: Quesnel, 2006
“Country” led?• Not exclusively the Government
• Also civil society, including Professional evaluation organizations (from 15 to 118 in a decade)
CLES: Challenges
•drive towards ownership is partly externally-driven
•longer time frame
•perceived risk by partner countries that independent evaluations of donor support may have political and financial consequences
•perceived risk by donors/development agencies of weak national capacities and, in some cases, of weak independence of national M&E systems
• Priority for donors/development agencies is its own accountability
• Shifts in power relationships
CLES: potential way forward
•Middle income, transition and developing countries cooperation to share good practices and lessons learned
•National evaluation organizations fostering national demand (and supply) for monitoring & evaluation
•International organizations strengthening national capacities to design and implement national M&E systems through
• Knowledge Management System and
• facilitating South-South Cooperation
We should always aim at strengthening National ownership and leadership, and not undermining it:
• Selecting topics of mutual interest• Implement evaluations jointly with Governments, as a
first step towards country-led evaluation• Hiring local experts to the maximum extent possible• Not assuming there are weak evaluation capacities,
even if none is immediately apparent• Co-ordinating with other UN agencies and key
international stakeholders
Invest in the country-led process, even if it may require additional efforts and less control
We need a mind shift to do things differently...