PICPA and CLEAR jointly hold Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals workshop
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 | World Bank CLEAR consultant, Dr Richard Tobin presenting on monitoring and evaluation skills development at the M&E workshop from 28 July to 1 August, 2013 in Suva |
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The Pacific Island Centre for Public Administration, based at the University of the South Pacific, is actively collaborating with regional and international bodies to inculcate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills for Pacific professionals.
It recently held a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Fundamentals workshop for senior executives of the Cook Islands, Fiji and Samoa Public Services and staff of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, in collaboration with the Regional Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) based at the World Bank in Washington DC, America.
The workshop held from 28 July to August 1, 2013 in Suva covered various monitoring practices and options for evaluating projects, programs and policies.
The workshop, facilitated by former Manager and Lead Evaluator, World Bank Institute Evaluation Group, Dr Richard Tobin and CLEAR head, Dr Nidhi Khattri, saw the participants examine the fundamental concepts, methods of program monitoring and evaluation and selection of indicators and measurement strategies.
They also discussed appropriate methods of collecting and analysing data, communicating results and good practices in managing evaluations.
On the last day, PICPA hosted its inaugural public lecture on M&E, with Dr Tobin, speaking on the topic Why Evaluate Well-Intentioned Programmes Intended for Those in Need?.
He said all governments develop and implement programmes to help their citizens in need of vital public services such as health, education, infrastructure, agriculture and transportation, often times because the private sector is unable or unwilling to do so.
Dr Tobin explained that while these public services are vital and are intended to address important needs, their existence ensures neither their success nor the accomplishment of desired objectives, which is why evaluations of the design and implementation of government programmes and judgments about their relative success are essential, especially when public resources are scarce and when competing demands for these resources exist.
The lecture, attended by participants with a close interest in monitoring and evaluation including from regional organisations, was followed by an intense question and comments session.
PICPA is a joint initiative between the University and the Australian Government, designed to respond to the needs and plans identified by 14 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) for strengthened public administration to enable improved service delivery to their people and foster economic growth.
CLEAR is a collaborative effort among donors and partner countries aimed at strengthening partner countries’ capacities and systems in M&E and performance management (PM) to support a focus on results.
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