Building better policies the nuts and bolts of monitoring and evaluation systems / Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Philipp Krause, Keith Mackay.

Author/creator Lopez Acevedo, Gladys
Other author Krause, Philipp, 1978-
Other author Mackay, Keith.
Other author World Bank.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, DC : World Bank,
Descriptionxxii, 225 p. : ill. ; $c 24 cm.
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Subjects
Public administration--Evaluation.
Administrative agencies--Evaluation.
Human services--Evaluation.

Contents Introduction -- Conceptual framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Defining the type of m&e system: clients, intended uses, and utilization -- Conducting diagnoses of M&E systems and capacities -- Key steps to design and implement M&E for individual country service agencies -- M&E systems and the budget -- Use of social accountability tools and information technologies in monitoring and evaluation -- Defining and using performance indicators and targets in government M&E systems -- Key choices for a menu of evaluations -- Reconstructing baseline data for impact evaluation and results measurement -- Combining quantitative and qualitative methods for program monitoring and evaluation: why are mixed-method designs best? -- The Mexican government's M&E system -- Chile's monitoring and evaluation system, 1994-2010 -- The Australian government's M&E system -- The Canadian monitoring and evaluation system.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012011907
ISBN9780821387771 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780821395059