Planning Monitoring and Evaluation for Public and Private Sectors

How often have we ignored monitoring and evaluation – as if appreciating our little efforts, is of no significance? This book is a timely contribution to an ongoing debate about the need for accountability and transparency in whatever we do – whether we are development practitioners, policy makers, researchers and all those working in the public, private and third sector organisations. A truly stimulating piece of work which students of Development Studies will find it equally informative. The Covid-19 Outbreaks have demonstrated that we are not yet there where systems and processes are in place to plan, monitor and evaluate. If empowerment programmes are managed, monitored and evaluated in ways that are top-down, technocratic and controlling, governments’, private sectors’ and donors’ actions can have unintended disempowering effects.

Planning Monitoring and Evaluation continue to be a fundamental 2063 Africa agenda promoting accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in Local government and all spheres of government. Skilling, up skilling and reskilling in Planning M and E should become business as usual in any organisation.