Global Health

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems
Better evidence, better policies, better development results

UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank, UN Economic Commission for Europe, IDEAS
(International Development Evaluation Association),
IOCE (International organization for Cooperation in Evaluation), DevInfo and MICS - Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys

Available online as PDF file [322p.] at: http://www.ceecis.org/remf/Country-ledMEsystems.pdf
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Website: http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/resources_10597.html

Contents

Prefaces:
Finbar O’Brien, Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF Headquarters
Ray Rist, President, International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall, President, International Organization for the Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)

Editorial:
Marco Segone, Senior Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS,
and former Vice President,
International Organization for the Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)

Part 1
Why country-led monitoring and evaluation systems?
Enhancing evidence-based policy making through country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.

Evaluating development. Is the country the right unit of account?
Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor, King’s College, London and former Director General, Evaluation, the World Bank

The strategic intent. Understanding strategic intent is the key to successful country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.
Jean Serge Quesnel, Professor at the United Nations System
Staff College, Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and Professeur
Associé at the École Nationale d’Administration Publique of Quebec

Supporting partner country ownership and capacity in development evaluation. The OECD DAC evaluation network.
Hans Lundgren, Head of Evaluation Section, Development Co-operation Directorate,
OECD Megan Kennedy, Consultant, OECD

Country-led evaluations. Learning from experience.
Osvaldo Feinstein, Professor at the Master in Evaluation, Complutense University, Madrid, and
former Manager, Operations Evaluation Department, the World Bank

Country-led impact evaluation. A survey of development practitioners.
Marie-Hélène Adrien, President, Universalia, and former President, IDEAS
Denis Jobin, Vice President, IDEAS, and Manager, Evaluation Unit, National Crime Prevention Center, Public Safety, Canada

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems
Better evidence, better policies, better development results The role of national, regional and
international evaluation organizations in strengthening country-led monitoring and evaluation systems.
Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall, President,International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)

Bringing statistics to citizens: a “must” to build democracy in the XXI century
Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician, OECD

Proactive is the magic word.
Petteri Baer, Regional Advisor, Statistical Division,
UN Economic Commission for Europe

Part 2
Good practices in country-led monitoring and evaluation systems
Building monitoring and evaluation systems to improve government performance.
Keith Mackay, Evaluation Capacity Development Coordinator, Independent Evaluation Group, the World Bank

Getting the logic right. How a strong theory of change supports programmes which work!
Jody Zall Kusek, Lead Coordinator of Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Group, the World Bank
Ray C. Rist, Advisor, the World Bank, and President, International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)

RealWorld Evaluation: conducting evaluations under budget, time, data and political constraints
Michael Bamberger, Independent consultant
Jim Rugh, Independent international program evaluator

Strengthening country data collection systems.
The role of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
Marco Segone, Senior Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation UNICEF CEE/CIS
George Sakvarelidze, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist UNICEF CEE/CIS
Daniel Vadnais, Data Dissemination Specialist UNICEF Headquarters

Strengthening country data dissemination systems.
Good practices in using DevInfo
Nicolas Pron, DevInfo Global Administrator, UNICEF Headquarters
Kris Oswalt, Executive Director, DevInfo Support Group
Marco Segone, Senior Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF CEE/CIS
George Sakvarelidze, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF CEE/CIS

Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems
Better evidence, better policies, better development results
Making data meaningful. Writing stories about numbers*.
UNECE, Statistical Dissemination and Communication, Conference of European Statisticians

Annexes