1. Presentation by: Adeline Addy, M&E Officer, AAU
At: ACE Project Workshop, November 18 – 20, 2014
Yaoundé, Cameroon

2. 1. What is monitoring, and why monitor?
2. What will be monitored?
3. The Results Framework – Layout and Components
4. ACE Performance Indicators
5. Roles and Responsibilities
6. Current Status
7. Next Steps

3. 1. Reporting Results
2. Details on Indicator Data
3. Reporting Tool (Results Framework)
4. Data Recording Templates/ Forms
5. Next Steps

5. INDICATOR NAME DESCRIPTION CRITICAL DATA NEEDED
1. No of regional and
national students
enrolled in new
specialized Master, PhD,
post-grad, post-doc
and/or short-term
courses/ programs [% of
which are females ]
 Measures regionality
 ´regional´ = African students who
are not from the country hosting the
particular ACE.
 Master and PhD Students to be
counted here should have
completed at least one semester at
the ACE
 Each student can be counted only
once. E.g. If student is counted as
under Masters, same student cannot
be counted under short-term course
 Distance students (i.e. online) may
be counted but will not carry same
value
 In case of significant disruptions, the
World Bank determines if students
have completed a full semester or
not
 Bio-data, full contact
information, course
(indicating if MA, BA, PhD,
post-grad, post-doc or
short-term), nationality and
gender of all students
enrolled in the courses that
form part of the ACE
Project.
 Number of national
students would also need
to be tracked (for
comparison reasons).
 Data would have to be
disaggregated by gender.

6. INDICATOR NAME DESCRIPTION CRITICAL DATA NEEDED
2. No. of internationally
(regionally/sub-
regionally) accredited
education programs
 Measures the quality of training
provided
 Data provided should indicate name
of the accrediting body and
programme or course accredited
 Internationally accreditation should
be by a body accepted by theWorld
Bank).
 title, level (PhD, Masters,
Bachelor's, Diploma, etc.),
type of accreditation, date
of accreditation, expiry of
accreditation and
accrediting agency/
institution.
 the type of international
accreditation done;
 Gap assessment reports by
an external accreditation
agency;
 Reports of Self-evaluation
per international
standards;
 Regional (WAHO/CAMES),
sub-regional or National
Accreditation or ISO;
 Bologna Compliant
programs (details to be
specified)

7. INDICATOR NAME DESCRIPTION CRITICAL DATA NEEDED
3 No. of Students /faculty
with at least 1 month
internship in a company
or a local institution
relevant to their field/
sector (→ Outreach)
 Measures the level of outreach
 Data provided should indicate if
intern is student or faculty
 Details on the host institution
should be provided and should
indicate whether it is public or
private
 Name and contacts of
intern; year of study if a
student; duration of
internship (start and end
dates);
 Diplomas, certificates,
credits, etc. earned; host
institution name, status and
contacts
4. Amount of externally
generated revenue by the
ACEs.
 Refers to revenue generated
externally and deposited into the
ACE’s account
 Excludes all government education
and research subventions, including
research grants (sale of consultancy
work to the government is accepted
as externally generated revenue).
 tuition fees, other student
fees, sale of consultancies,
joint research, fund raising
and donations, etc.
 Funds from other
governments, including
donor assistance (these are
however discounted by half
because they are regarded
as short-term funding)

8. INDICATOR NAME DESCRIPTION CRITICAL DATA
5. No of faculty trained in
an area relevant to the
ACE-Program, through
training carried out or
organized through the
ACEs.
 Measures quality of training
programme
 Data to show % split between (a)
faculty from ACEs trained vs. (b)
faculty from Partner Institutions vs
(c) faculty from the region trained.
 names and positions of
staff trained; titles/content
of training programmes;
training organiser; and
names and institutions of
training facilitators
6. No of newly established
or revised curricula
(meeting labour market
skills), as approved by the
appropriate institutional
organ (→ Training Quality)
 Measures quality of training
programme
 Data to show count of new or
revised curricula
 Data should be supported in
narrative with details on strategies
adopted and frequency of review
 Title of curriculum; site at
curricula is offered; date of
review; reviewer’s name
and contacts
7. Increase of
internationally recognized
research publications in
disciplines supported by
the ACE-Programme (in %)
(→ Research Quantity and
Quality)
 Measures research output and
determines quality of knowledge
generated based on visibility in
internationally recognised journals
and for a
 Data to be provided by Elsevier
 Names of authors and
contacts; institutional
affiliation; references

9. INDICATOR NAME DESCRIPTION CRITICAL DATA
9. No of partnership agreements
including a 3-5 year cooperation
implementation plan, signed by
academic leaders from ACEs and
engaged Partner Institutions (→
Outreach/ Regionality)
 Measures partnership and
regionality
 All partnership agreements to
be made available on file at
any time for review by the
WB, RFU (AAU), Data
Verification Consultant, etc.
 To follow guidelines on
"Partnership Agreements"
outlined in the ACE-
Programme´s Operational
Manual.
 titles, partners, areas of
collaboration and signature
dates of all partnership
agreements
 relevance, quality and
significance of each
agreement and related
joint projects should be
provided in the narrative
progress reports
10. Regular ACE-Programme
Implementation team meetings
(at least semi-annual) taking
place with openly disclosed
minutes (on the ACE´s ACE-
Progamme Website) (→
Admin./Governance Quality)
 Measures quality of project
governance
 List of meeting participants
and minutes of meetings to be
made available on a public site
(e.g. the project website)
 Caution on level of detail of
minutes since will be made
public
 Date, time and duration of
the meeting and number of
attendees;

10. ACE Level Results
Indicators
Core
Unit of
Measure
Specifics Baseline
(Nov.
2013)
Cummulative Target Values Status as of
October 31st
2014
Variance Comments
YR 1
(Jun. 2015)
YR 2
(Jun, 2016)
YR 3
(Jun.
2017)
YR 4
(June
2018)
Indicator 1: No of
regional and national
students (disaggregated)
enrolled in new
specialized short-term
courses, Master, PhD,
programs [No of which
are females] (→
Regionality)
Number/ %
(Indicator
Definition:
Count of non
–national
students in
new ACE
courses)
Total
number of
enrolled
students
10 51 79 107 135 35 -16
Regional
(Total)
8 30 40 50 60
Regional
(Female)
3 14 19 24 29
National
(Total)
2 21 39 57 75
National
(Female)
1 8 14 20 26
Indicator 1b: No. of
regional students
enrolled in specific
specialised/ new ACE
courses (→ Regionality)
Number
(Indicator
Definition:
Count of
regional
students in
specific ACE
courses)
Total
regional
students
enrolled
8 80 140 200 260
Post-
Doctoral
0 0 0 0 0
PhD 8 25 30 35 40
Masters 0 5 10 15 20
BA 0 0 0 0 0
Short
Courses
0 50 100 150 200
Indicator 2: No. of
internationally
accredited education
programs (with national
accreditation and
international evaluation
counting 50%) (→
Training Quality)
Number
(Indicator
Definition:
Count of
relevant
projects)
1 2 3 3 3