Train4dev (2011) Harmonisation, Decentralisation, Local Governance: Monitoring and evaluating support to decentralisation and local governance: challenges and trends

This presentation covers the challenges in monitoring and evaluation of support to decentralisation and local governance, trends in the international debate and practice, and participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E), domestic accountability and capacity-building with partner institutions.

The presentation identifies several new approaches including: programme-based approaches, investments in national and local M&E capacities/systems, development of PM&E tools that can be used in M&E, interest in performance assessment tools for local governance, and harmonisation of alignment efforts.

The presentation concludes that joint design and testing of PM&E tools needs time, there are challenges involved in managing the dynamics of multi-stakeholder processes to M&E, identification and fine-tuning of indicators is a process and M&E results need follow-up.

You can access the full agenda of the training here: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/event/training-course-harmonisation-decentralization-local-governance