Transcript Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation

Consultative Group Meeting
M&E Sector Working Group
Enabling Environment
Challenges
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Inadequate institutional, legal and regulatory framework
Roles, responsibilities and functional relationships between key players
and stakeholders unclear
3. Planning and budgeting processes treated as separate functions with a
weak link between the two
4. Policy cycle unharmonised across sectors
5. Weak response of MDAs to planning initiatives
6. Delay in the preparation of sector and district medium term development
plans
7. Inadequate allocation of resources to planning
8. Inadequate capacity of NDPC, PPMEDS, RPCUs and DPCUs
9. Mainstreaming communication and stakeholder consultation and
participation in the development planning, budgeting and monitoring
processes.
10. Inadequate collaboration with media
11. Political polarisation of issues on national development
Enabling environment
Key priorities
1. Clarify and streamline roles of central management agencies
2. Harmonise the planning, budgeting and M&E cycle across sectors
through Legislative Instruments and strengthening the linkages between
each.
3. Strengthen national capacity to enforce rules and regulations
4. Develop capacity of NDPC, PPMEDs, RPCUs and DPCU’s through
training and the adequate allocation of resources
5. Enhance stakeholder participation/citizen’s engagement in planning,
budgeting and M&E
6. Ensure the adoption and implementation of the Freedom of Information
Bill- preparation/training for Ministries is critical
7. Develop a Communication Strategy to drive communication around the
MTDPF.
8. Review composition and tenure of NDPC – to remove political bias.
M&E and Statistics
Challenges
1. Weak demand for, and utilisation of, statistics and M&E
results including budget performance
2. Weak institutional capacity at NDPC, GSS, MMDAs, MDAs
3. Existing M&E plan failed to fully deliver on the development
and institutionalisation of M&E and statistics functions
4. Non compliance with planning and M&E guidelines
5. Limited incentives for M&E
6. Limited resources and budgetary allocations for statistics and
M&E
7. Poor data quality, data gaps, inconsistencies and limited
disaggregation
8. Inadequate MIS and ICT connectivity
M&E and statistics
Key priorities
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Reinforce the institutional arrangements to support and sustain
effective M&E
Strengthen, coordinate and harmonise existing M&E
mechanisms for effective service delivery
Develop a national M&E Plan containing a results matrix based
on sector and district M&E plans.
Strengthen technical capacity at all levels in M&E and statistics
Roll out Ghana Statistics Development Plan including 2010 PHC,
reform of GSS, long term census and survey programme
Strengthen administrative statistics and sector/district level M&E
Improve reporting on equity issues e.g., sex disaggregation and
gender analysis
Strengthen MIS systems and ICT connectivity
SWG – Priority actions
• Strengthen Government’s demand and use of information for policy
making and monitoring
• Improve the linkages between planning, budgeting , M&E and statistics
with key focus on supporting roll-out of programme based budgeting
• Prepare the National M&E plan including the results matrix
• Build the institutional capacity in the collection, analysis and use of
statistics and M&E information
• Reduce DP support of parallel M&E systems at all levels of
Government
• Roll out of GSDP including 2010 PHC, reform of GSS, implementation
of long term census and survey programme, improvement of
administrative data
• Identify champions in Government and SWGs for M&E and statistics.
• Develop legal instruments based on Act 480,1994
• Increase stakeholder participation in planning and M&E
• Consider how to institutionalise independent evaluations
Thank you for listening…any
questions?