Government has disclosed that it is finalising development of the first ever Malawi Monitoring and Evaluation Policy.
Deputy Secretary to President and Cabinet Janet Banda said this when she presided over the launch of the first ever Monitoring and Evaluation week which has been organised by the National Planning Commission in partnership with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.
Addressing delegates that attended the launch, Banda said government is committed to ensuring quality use of monitoring and evaluation evidence not just as a routine activity to please financiers of development programmes but as an important management tool.
“Malawi government is committed to ensuring that we develop an effective M&E system in this country. Government, with the facilitation of the Department of Economic Planning and Development, will soon launch the National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy that will create a sustained culture of demanding and supplying Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) data and information for evidence-based decision-making at all levels,” said Banda.
According to Banda the Policy will structure, systematize, and institutionalize practices and application of M&E systems for all development actors in this country.
Banda has since disclosed that as government is working towards finalising the policy, it is undertaking steps to ensure that it creates a conducive environment for the generation of quality data and use of the results in development planning.
According to Banda the results will not only be used in the public sector but across the development space.
In his remarks Dr Thomas Munthali Director General of the National Planning Commission said the M&E week is vital in the implementation of the Malawi 2063 vision.
“Monitoring and Evaluation of development projects is a key enabler to the effective implementation of the Malawi 2063 vision hence the decision by the Commission to organise this M&E week which will now become an annual event,’ said Munthali.
The Monitoring and Evaluation week is being held under the theme Enhancing Evaluation capacity and use of Evcaluatio0n results.
