Transcript Indicators for tracking results in less-than-ideal conditions: a monitoring and evaluation sourcebook for agriculture and rural development

AFRICAN COMMISSION ON
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
INDICATORS FOR TRACKING RESULTS IN
LESS-THAN-IDEAL CONDITIONS:
A MONITORING AND EVALUATION
SOURCEBOOK FOR
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
BACKGROUND
• UN Conference on Financing for
Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 2002:
developing and developed countries made
commitments to a shared responsibility to
achieve development results including those
embodied in the Millennium Development
Goals
BACKGROUND (2)
• Results-based orientation will require the capacity to
monitor indicators that reliably reflect results at all
phases of the development process, from strategic
planning to implementation to completion.
• Many countries lack the capacity to produce and report
the necessary data to inform the international
development debate or to monitor their national trends.
• Although the situation is improving, global databases
are still filled with data gaps and inconsistencies as a
result of weaknesses in national statistical systems.
PREPARATION OF INDICATORS
FOR TRACKING RESULTS IN
LESS-THAN-IDEAL CONDITIONS
• Global Donor Platform for Rural
Development (GDPRD)
• aim is ultimately to improve the quality of
monitoring at the global level while
recognizing that strengthening the
capacity to monitor must necessarily first
come at the national level.
DRAFT SOURCEBOOK
• sourcebook provides guidance on:
• how to build the capacity needed for effective
monitoring and evaluation in developing
countries.
• suggests a number of approaches for
determining which indicators to select, given the
different types of information that are most
pertinent to different agricultural and rural
development (ARD) activities, projects, and
programs.
DRAFT SOURCEBOOK
• prepared by a team of staff from WBank
and FAO, with valuable inputs from many
practitioners in others development
agencies.
• test the appropriateness of the sourcebook
methodology, a study was conducted by
national consultants in five countries
• Test countries: Cambodia, Nicaragua,
Senegal, Nigeria and Tanzania.
MENU OF INDICATORS
• Emphasis on early outcome indicators
• Less importance given to input and output
indicators.
Group of indicators
• Indicators by sector and subsectors.