Great article!
Regional networks can provide a good platform to run targeted capacity building programs in M&E since regional grouping tend to share similar contexts. In addition to targeted training, regional networks approach is cost effective and sustainable since countries can then build on existing M&E resources for continued engagement.

Although a good initiation and idea to deal with the SDG goals in safe, quick manner, still many countries not in Fram work for addressing issues. So it's better to initiate invitation to join the team and work.

I am deelply impressed by your work.I t enlightened me and provided new sights for understanding the evaluation process.

Ms. Alison Evans article is insightful.
I just thought of sharing my own little experience with the World Bank Group.
I am a Development Professional from India who got an opportunity to participate in the International Program for Development Evaluation Training mentioned by you. Fortunately, I was sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (BMZ ) for the program. It was a great learning experience for me. I would like to know about the process to attend any of the in-person events for learning on evaluation capacity development offered by the CLEAR Regional Centers in the coming months.
In late 2017 and early 2018 ,I was a Co-lead of Society of Gender Professionals - Inclusive Growth Team. Unfortunately, due to time and resource constrains on my part I couldn't sustain that for long.

Thanks for the shared knowledge but now what if M & E courses are made cheap and available to everyone more so in African countries

Great article.
Many Countries remain poor due to incorrect policies, inadequate implementation but most importantly weak Monitoring and Evaluation of Programmes. Capacity for M&E also is inadequate hence its prioritization is a timely intervention. We at BTC pledge to be part of the crusade. btc4consult.com

Fantastic and momentum for M&E.

Indeed all governments especially in developing countries need to include M&E on their structure. This will clearly indicate M&E functions in the public sector and thus gearing efforts into achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This is a governance problem. Accountability must be put at the heart of the systems. If this condition is fulfilled, monitoring and evaluation will gain in importance and will act as a key instrument for measuring the impact of interventions. It is therefore necessary to define operational accountability frameworks taking account of the contexts, with monitoring and evaluation systems as driving forces enabling these frameworks to be fed.

Dear Alison Evans,

Progress and updates on this are anxiously waited for.

Many regards.

TMN

As you are funding different development projects in Afghanistan, but there is a need for national monitoring and evaluation within the country, as many projects implemented since 2001, but lack of a national monitoring and evaluation system caused to lost the lessons learned, I hope WBG focus on this.

I want to express my appreciation on your view.I want to find this journal and I also need your assistance to get policy evaluation training because I have been preparing to develop draft proposal to evaluate rural development policy and strategy of Ethiopia but I have lack of knowledge and skills to conduct this study.

Very comprehensive one. Need engagement of multiple stakeholders

Sensitizing citizens to the need to institutionalize a M&E system, especially when there is no political will. Citizens must be involved in the generation of efficient and transparent government management to achieve SDG goals.

Ever ready to contributes my part

Great, the effort will initiate every program and project manager to pay attention the monitoring and evaluation task. I have more than decades experience in monitoring and evaluation for government and non government lead programs and projects. I learn that mostly managers are not concerned for learning and identifying gaps for best achievement unless there is external forces.

In my view evaluation has failed to deliver on the aspirations arising from North American social action programs in the 60s and 70s. I believe it’s time to fundamentally rethink our ‘theory of change’ for how evaluations are intended to facilitate better programming decisions and development outcomes. The current reactions around the world to climate warming and the political discounting of relevant research evidence serves as a case in point. Capacity building on its own is not the answer when evaluation findings are not valued by the collective political process.

Dear Alison
It is a great move, I personally appreciate it
The M&E will provide explicit measures that will inform partners about the extend of the impact happened due to World Bank support

Its contrary, I think every nation has financial audit system and chartered accountant are legalized and accepted. Its irony, money spent are checked but not judged for result/value. M&E should be established as professional requirement for any program/projects or government spending just like mandatory requirement for financial audit.

I WOULD TO TAKE PART

Dear Alison

Putting the focus on the specific context of the country seems to me a particularly important action in your rich and relevant analysis.
In my opinion, the processes of transferring knowledge / skills, of scaling up good practices have a range of possibilities allowing them to be more inclusive and participative, to enhance the value of the local.
I think that in the so-called fragile countries of the SOUTH, the strategies for strengthening institutional and individual capacities in M&E must be directed much more towards the more decentralized administrative entities, civil society and even communities in general.

Dear Ms Evans,

Excellent article. During my time as ADB and World Bank stuff I noticed how little attention is given in project design to M&E. When I mentioned this to my colleagues in operations, I was told that this is the task of the project implementation unit. Hence, no longer the responsibility of the financing partner. I personally believe that much more can and should be done at design stage - including capacity building at the local level. Maybe if we start to "sell" M&E as an important management task, we might get some more traction within the MDBs and the local partners. At the end of the day, M&E is a key element for decision-making.

Thank you very much for the timely article.

It was a great article and good idea regarding the develope capacities on M&E through all over the globe to have a reliable data and measurable indicators especially abou the SDG.
Actually I am from Afghanistan and around 8 years working as M&E officer with local NGOs and INGOs projects. These years experiences make me aware of weak M&E support by the Afghanistan Government national wide. Here is only one governmental organisation by the name of Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, which I am sure this committee does not have any national based indicators to scale the Afghanistan's SDGs. I as a low income country citizen strongly appreciates this capacities development plan by IEG and IDA.
The question which I would like to ask whether any individual can participate for such training and capacities building workshop?

This is a welcome development as there are no short cut to best way to achieve project objective in a sustainable, prudent and transparent way than by participatory monitoring and evaluation and this can only succeed if all stakeholders play their role in institutionizing m&e at all level, adequate funding and building the capacity of the m&e practitioners.