2007, Keith Mackay | The World Bank
Governments in a number of developing countries are devoting considerable efforts to strengthening their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and capacities. They are doing this to improve their performance -- by ensuring that policy making, budget decision making, management, and accountability are evidence-based.
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group has published a book that distills its considerable experience in this topic. This book -- How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government -- draws on IEG's program of research and technical assistance in this area, focusing on the experience of governments in a wide range of countries and public sector environments. This publication documents good practice and provides practice country systems for M&E. It includes diagnostic guides, country diagnoses, examples of highly influential evaluations, and didactic material on M&E tools and impact evaluation, among other things. In this context, the purpose of this volume is to synthesize and digest for readers this body of knowledge.
The book is recommended for government officials, donor staff and others who are working to help countries build their capacities to systematically measure their performance, and to use this information to achieve results on the ground.
