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.
Rapid Evaluation of the Mechanism for Allocating Fadec-Agriculture Resources to Communes
January 2021
SUMMARY
FADeC-Agriculture is a mechanism for allocating resources to Benin’s communes, set up in 2015 and identified in 2019 as the main tool for financing the Decentralization and Deconcentration Plan (P2D) for the agricultural sector. Despite central government efforts to make it operational, it suffers from a number of dysfunctions that undermine its performance. All in all, the central administration must take the appropriate measures to enable this fund to play its role to the full.
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