The Canadian M&E System

Robert Lahey

No 27909 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: In Canada, the concept of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is interpreted such that evaluation has a distinct identity from monitoring. The Canadian M&E system is one that has invested heavily in both evaluation and performance monitoring as key tools to support accountability and results-based management. Section two of the paper traces the evolution of the formalized use of M&E in Canada's public sector from its origins in the 1960s to the present day. Section three outlines the organization of M&E, identifying the key players at a government-wide level, as well as M&E organization within an individual government department. Section four highlights the key features that define the Canadian M&E system, characterizing the system on the basis of eight distinguishing elements. Section 5 provides information on the ways that M&E information has been used in the Canadian public sector, including recent efforts to strengthen the link to decision-making. Lessons learned from the Canadian experience with public sector M&E are summarized in section six under three broad categories: lessons regarding drivers for M&E; lessons pertaining to the implementation of the M&E system and; key elements associated with M&E capacity building.

Keywords: Poverty; Reduction-Poverty; Impact; Evaluation; Poverty; Reduction-Poverty; Monitoring; &; Analysis; Rural; Development-Rural; Portfolio; Improvement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11
ISBN: 978-1-60244-163-7
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