Ten Steps to Designing, Building and Sustaining a PerformanceBased Monitoring and Evaluations System

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Elements of MfDR in Africa
2nd Annual Meeting of the Africa COP on MfDR
Mauritius 28 October 2008
Mohamed Khatouri Lead ME Specialist World Bank
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Managing for Development Results
Strategic Planning with Clear Objectives
Monitoring Evaluation
Implementation Performance of policies, projects
programs
Results-based Budgting
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Elements of MfDR in Africa

• Outcome-oriented PRSP/National Development Plan.
• Policy results matrix Several coountries with
  second generation PRSP (Uganda, Tanzania,
  Mozambique, Ghana, Madagascar, Niger, Senegal,
  etc.

• ME Framework Statistical information system.
• ME framework PRSP ME unit (several PRSP
  countries)
• Automatized ME system for PRSP (Senegal,
  Mauritanie),
• Sector level routine data on service delivery
  (Tanzania).
• National Statistic Development plan (Rwanda,
  Uganda, Zambia, Kenya)

• Performance monitoring public service delivery
• Sector performance contract (Kenya),
• District performance contract (Rwanda),
• Service delivery charters (Zambia),

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Elements of MfDR in Africa (2)

• Program-based budgeting

• Output-based budgeting (Tanzania)

• Medium Term expenditure Frmework (MTEF) several
  countries

• Strong donor harmonization coordination, mutual
  commitment Sector working groups join annual
  review or Join Performance Assessment Framework
  (PAF) (Mozambique, Rwanda, Burkina Fasso, Uganda
  (JAST), Ghana, Tanzania (JAST), Mozambique,
  Senegal, Zambia (JAST)

• Civil Society private sector participation
• Annual Porverty Obeservatory (Mozambique),
• PRSP preparation and evalaluation several
  countries

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Challenges of MfDR in Africa

• Resistance to the implementation of MfDR and Low
  Political will

• Weak capacity and lack of incentive structure
  that rewards performance

• Weak ME and statitical systems at national
  local levels

• Weak budget planning and linkage to performance
  and results

• Weak evaluation knowledge culture to improve
  policy decisions

• Weak institutional mecanisms (Governance) to
  ensure government accoutability and transparency