The document summarizes the country-led system for monitoring and evaluating public policies in Mali. The key points are: 1. Mali has established a governance structure and frameworks for monitoring and evaluating its poverty reduction strategies and development policies, including sectoral and regional directorates. 2. Good practices include strong partnerships between the government, donors, and UN agencies, as well as capacity building for evaluation through a national civil society association. 3. Challenges include updating indicators, aligning donor reviews, and developing human capital for monitoring and evaluation. National leadership, coordination, and decentralized statistics are lessons learned for institutionalizing an effective system.

1. THE COUNTRY- LED SYSTEM TO
MONITOR AND EVALUATE PUBLIC
POLICIES IN MALI.
GOOD PRACTICES AND LESSON LEARNED
From policies to results
Developing capacities for country
monitoring and evaluation systems,
Pages: 378-385
Sharkhuu Munkhbat
Monitoring & Evaluation
May 25, 2012
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2. Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Monitoring and Evaluation system and its
governance
III. Good practices within the M&E system
IV. Challenges and opportunities
V. Conclusion and lesson learned
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3. Introduction
• The Implementation of the Paris Declaration
and ACCRA Commitment for Aid
effectiveness is very developed,
• The country-led monitoring and evaluation is
well built around the main public policy,
• The second economic growth and poverty
reduction strategy for the period 2007-2011
adopted by government and all donors. /the
broad developmental Framework/
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4. Monitoring and Evaluation system
and its Governance
Main Frameworks of M&E system:
1. Evaluation Framework of the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP),
2. The monitoring of the implementation of the
12 indicators of the Paris Declaration,
3. The existence of the National Strategy of
Statistics (Director Scheme of Statistics),
4. The establishment of a General Office of
National Control.
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5. Monitoring and Evaluation system
and its Governance
Governance of the M&E system:
• The decentralization of the governance of
M&E is well institutionalized system through
the creation of sectoral and regional
Directorates of Planning and Statistics (CPS),
• The improvement of policies and programmes
through evidenced-based and the results-
oriented approaches to planning, budgeting
and reporting,
• The accountability of managers of
programmes and projects is being improved. 5

6. Good practices within M&E system
Strong partnership and coordination:
• Quarterly meeting of Government and all
donors,
• The existence of sectoral thematic donor
groups for ensuring the coordination of
technical and financial assistance,
• The existence of UN interagency partnership
to strengthen M&E system,
• Establishing a strong partnership around
Devinfo database. 6

7. Good practices within M&E system
Key Strategic Contribution of UNICEF and
UN-agencies:
• The strengthening of national capacity in
management and utilization of Devinfo for
M&E of Public policies and MDG,
• Supporting the development of the formal
national civil society association for
evaluation.(Association of Promotion of
Evaluation)
• Providing technical support to improve
evaluation capacities.
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8. Challenges and opportunities
Challenges:
• The updating of impact and outcome indicators
for monitoring the progress of MDG and
PRSP,
• The alignment of the annual review or specific
country programme from each donor with the
existing national system of monitoring and
evaluation,
• The lack of human capital.
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9. Challenges and opportunities
Opportunities:
• The establishment of a common strategy for
assistance to development,
• The UN partnership on monitoring and
evaluation leaded by UNICEF ,
• The existence of the civil society monitoring and
evaluation association,
• The existence of the donors thematic group on
national strategy for statistics,
• The progress of effectiveness of decentralization
with existing regional and local development
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10. Conclusion and lesson learned
• The existence of a national development framework
(PRSP, Action plans) is the fundamental step for the
monitoring and evaluation system.
• National leadership is the key condition for the
development of results based management and good
governance for results.
• The existence of a strong partnership and
coordination mechanism is the main condition for
good implementation of monitoring and evaluation.
• The existence of a nation strategy for statistics; the
annual operational action plans and the
decentralization of the statistics system are the key
conditions for a strong institutionalized monitoring
and evaluation system.
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11. THANK YOU
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