Monitoring and evaluation strategies are necessary to keep the UNDAF accountable and to measure results. The United Nations will produce an Annual Review Document, conduct a mid-term review (MTR) with partners; and commission a Final Evaluation.
Each year, the United Nations will review the status of UNDAF implementation. Each agency will report on the status of the outputs for which they have taken responsibility. The status report will be based primarily upon information generated by agencies during the course of their regular monitoring and annual review exercises. To facilitate reporting, the UNCT will use a common reporting DevInfo template based on the monitoring and evaluation matrices. Upon UNCT request, analytical reviews analyzing implementation status will be developed by each of the four UNDAF working groups based on agency inputs. Together with the status of the indicators, this will constitute the Annual Review Document. The UNCT may also commission additional thematic analyses on one or more of the UNDAF’s cross-cutting issues in any given year.
The Annual Review Document, in addition to providing an update of progress on output-level results, will examine:
- Changes needed in planning assumptions, risk status, and emerging opportunities
- The continued relevance of UNDAF results to national priorities
- Any revisions that might be required to UNDAF strategies, planned activities, partnerships and resource allocations and
- Opportunities for improving UN agency coordination and for joint programming.
The Document will be discussed by the UNCT, revised (if needed), and forwarded to relevant government partners, including the PRS Monitoring Unit.
In 2012, the United Nations and government will organize a mid-term review, where the focus will be on UNDAF outcomes. The MTR will provide a forum for discussion between the UN, government and partners. The forum will discuss achievements and future challenges in achieving national development goals and will decide whether revisions are required to the UNDAF. The MTR is well-timed to take advantage of the next Poverty Reduction Strategy review (scheduled for 2011). The UN will also commission an independent evaluation of the UNDAF in 2013, such that preliminary findings will be available to provide input to the next period’s UNDAF.
To foster compatibility with other planning frameworks, facilitate reporting, and ease the monitoring workload, several UNDAF indicators have been taken from other monitoring frameworks (e.g. PRS, MDGs, and other international frameworks with standardised indicators). It is anticipated that the indicators of the monitoring and evaluation matrices will be reviewed carefully during the first two years of implementation. Experience accumulated during annual reviews should illustrate whether the indicators are well defined with reliable sources, and whether the monitoring framework is manageable.
Please click here to see UNDAF Monitoring and Evaluation Matrix for each pillar.
Please click here to see the Results Matrix for each pillar
