Using M&E Evidence in Planning and Budgeting in South Africa
September 2023
Monitoring and evaluation are management processes/tools that provide public sector institutions with insightful information about the performance, effectiveness, efficiency and impact of policies, programmes and projects. M&E helps to provide an evidence base for public resource allocation decisions and identify how challenges in implementation should be addressed and successes replicated. The value of M&E is demonstrated when it is used to design development interventions which enable public sector institutions to learn and become more effective, thereby increasing the likelihood of development interventions achieving positive outcomes or, at least, reducing the likelihood of resources being invested in interventions that cause harm or make no difference in people’s lives. Unless governments use the performance data and evaluation evidence they generate to shape plans and to decide where resources are allocated, the processes themselves have no inherent value. The value of M&E lies in its use by public management institutions and society to improve governance and achieve accountability, and by enabling learning and improvements to take place in policies and programmes.
The Role of Monitoring and Evaluation in Public Sector Development Planning Budgeting Process in South Africa
September 2023
Twende Mbele together with the Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) issued terms of reference (ToRs) for a research project to understand the current use of performance monitoring and evaluation (M&E) evidence in the planning and budgeting processes in the South African government.
Entrenching the Use of M&E Evidence in the Public Sector Planning and Budgeting Processes in Uganda – Guideline
August 2023
The proposed guidelines have been developed as part of the key outputs under the assignment entitled A research study on current use of M&E evidence in development planning and budgeting processes in the 6 Twende Mbele countries: opportunities for entrenchment – the case of Uganda (2023). It is important to note that evidence/ data-driven planning and budgeting implies using good data and analytics to find insights, and then acting on those insights to gain competitive advantages. It is built on the premise that the best decisions are those supported by good data. Although the idea of data-driven planning and budgeting seems intuitive and straightforward, the study established that many Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) were found to be in great need to put into practice data-driven decision making. The findings of the study informed the development of these guidelines for use of evidence base data in planning and budgeting processes.
Current Use of M&E Evidence in Development Planning and Budgeting Processes in the Six Twende Mbele Countries: Opportunities for Entrechment : The Case of Uganda
August 2023
The purpose of this research report is to understand the current use of performance monitoring and evaluation evidence (data) in the planning and budgeting processes of the government of Uganda and to develop a guideline on how to entrench the use of M&E evidence in the public sector planning and budgeting processes in Uganda. The aim is to ensure that these two crucial functions are informed by the best available performance data on existing development plans, policies, programmes and projects of the government of Uganda.
Public Sector M&E, Planning and Budgeting Systems in the Republic of Ghana
April 2023
One of the most important activities that is carried out by governments and public sector institutions is budgeting. It is through budgeting that the scarce resources of a country are allocated to every sector of an economy. The claim by the British economist Lionel Robbins in 1932 – “human wants are unlimited but the means to satisfy them are limited relatively”- calls for the use of efficient management tools that will ensure the optimal use of the limited resources. One of the tools that government can use for this purpose is the budget. Governments therefore prepare budgets to drive the overall development objectives of their economies (Lawyer & Nigeria, 2013). Public sector budgeting is, therefore, very important for national development and has been used by governments in developing countries, including Ghana, as the major instrument for the mobilization of the needed resources to fund development project and programmes.
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