Tool to strengthen Country-led M&E Systems
Good practices in using DevInfo
Marco Segone, Regional Chief, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF CEE/CIS; Former Vice-President of IOCE
Nicolas Pron, Chief, Data Dissemination, UNICEF NYHQ; DevInfo Global Administrator
Based on book published by UNICEF in partnership with key international institutions
Authors:
21 global evaluation leaders
Partnership:
IDEAS, IOCE, DevInfo, WB, UNECE, and MICS
Evidence into practice: Increasing the uptake of evidence in policy
making
Data Data ProvidersProviders(Statisticians, (Statisticians, Evaluators, Evaluators, Researchers)Researchers)
Data UsersData Users(Policy Makers)(Policy Makers)
Need to improve dialogue
Improving “usability”of evidence
Reliableand
trustworthyevidence
Getting appropriate
Buy-in
Incentives to use
evidence
What ?Why?
When?How?
Effective dissemination
Wide Access
The “quality” challenge: How to match technical rigour and policy
relevance?
Technical rigourTechnical rigourbut no policy relevancebut no policy relevance
Policy relevance Policy relevance but no technical rigourbut no technical rigour
Better evidence, technically rigorous and policy relevant.
Country-led M&E systems (CLES):
a strategy to matcha strategy to match technical rigour with policy relevancetechnical rigour with policy relevance
Technical rigourTechnical rigour
but no policy relevancebut no policy relevance
Policy relevance
Policy relevance
but no technical rigour
but no technical rigour
Better evidence,
technically rigorous
and policy relevant
Better Better PoliciesPolicies
Better Better Development Development
ResultsResults
Using DevInfo in
Country-led M&E systems
ChildInfo 1995 - 2003
UNICEF developed a database to monitor the World Summit for Children offered to the UN system
DevInfo 4.0 2004
ChildInfo upgraded and launched with UNDG endorsement in April 2004
UN EndorsementEndorsed by the United Nations to assist Member States in Monitoring human development
DevInfo 5.0 2005
New web-enabled version developed and launched with broad government and UN support in May 2006
DevInfo 6.0 2008
New features with Web 2.0 social networking launched in Apr 2009
120+ national adaptations Partnerships with national statistics organizations and UN agencies
What is the trend in under-five mortality?
Where should poverty projects be targeted?
Sub-Saharan Africa
GLOBAL
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
East and Southern Africa
AFRICA
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
Malawi
EAST AND SOUTHERN
AFRICA
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
MALAWIRegions
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
MALAWIDistricts
Southern Region
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
MALAWIDistricts
Southern Region
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
MALAWISub-Districts
Southern Region
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
MALAWISub-Districts
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
MALAWISub-Districts
INFRASTRUCTURESettlementHealth postSchoolRoadRiver
Poverty
HighMediumLowNo data
Where should early child care programmes
be targeted?
Dodoma
Arusha Kilimanjaro
Tanga
Morogoro
Pwani
Dar Es Salaam
Lindi
MtwaraRuvuma
IringaMbeya
Singida
Tabora
Rukwa
Kigoma
Shinyanga
Kagera
Mwanza
Mara
Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region
Northern PembaPemba
Births attended by trained personnel
TANZANIAEarly Child Care Composite Index
Per cent
LowMediumHighVery highNo data
Dodoma
Arusha Kilimanjaro
Tanga
Morogoro
Pwani
Dar Es Salaam
Lindi
MtwaraRuvuma
IringaMbeya
Singida
Tabora
Rukwa
Kigoma
Shinyanga
Kagera
Mwanza
Mara
Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region
Northern PembaPemba
Births attended by trained personnel
Low birth weight
Per cent
LowMediumHighVery highNo data
TANZANIAEarly Child Care Composite Index
Dodoma
Arusha Kilimanjaro
Tanga
Morogoro
Pwani
Dar Es Salaam
Lindi
MtwaraRuvuma
IringaMbeya
Singida
Tabora
Rukwa
Kigoma
Shinyanga
Kagera
Mwanza
Mara
Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region
Northern PembaPemba
Births attended by trained personnel
Low birth weight
Underweight Per cent
LowMediumHighVery highNo data
TANZANIAEarly Child Care Composite Index
Dodoma
Arusha Kilimanjaro
Tanga
Morogoro
Pwani
Dar Es Salaam
Lindi
MtwaraRuvuma
IringaMbeya
Singida
Tabora
Rukwa
Kigoma
Shinyanga
Kagera
Mwanza
Mara
Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region
Northern PembaPemba
Births attended by trained personnel
Low birth weight
Underweight
Diarrhoea cases
Per cent
LowMediumHighVery highNo data
TANZANIAEarly Child Care Composite Index
Births attended by trained personnel
Low birth weight
Underweight
Diarrhoea cases
DPT immunization
Dodoma
Arusha Kilimanjaro
Tanga
Morogoro
Pwani
Dar Es Salaam
Lindi
MtwaraRuvuma
IringaMbeya
Singida
Tabora
Rukwa
Kigoma
Shinyanga
Kagera
Mwanza
Mara
Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region
Northern PembaPemba
Per cent
Very lowLowMediumHighNo data
TANZANIAEarly Child Care Composite Index
Dodoma
Arusha Kilimanjaro
Tanga
Morogoro
Pwani
Dar Es Salaam
Lindi
MtwaraRuvuma
IringaMbeya
Singida
Tabora
Rukwa
Kigoma
Shinyanga
Kagera
Mwanza
Mara
Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region
Northern PembaPemba
Index
Very lowLowMediumHighNo data
TANZANIAEarly Child Care Composite Index
How can census data be used for rapid response in
emergency situations?
ZAMBIABuffer zone radius = 200 km
2,519,000 people
Where is development aid spent?
Comparison of UNDP expenditures by MDGs, 2006
8
02
0 0 0
20
0
19
51
54
0 0 0 0
14
4
0 1
27
60
0 0 0 0
9
1 0 0
30
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
MDG1 MDG2 MDG3 MDG4 MDG5 MDG6 MDG7 MDG8 MDGplanning and
reporting
MDG0
%
Albania
Vietnam
Ukraine
ALBANIAUNDP expenditures by MDG
2006
MDG0
MDG planning and reporting
MDG8
MDG7MDG2
MDG3
MDG1
MDG4 MDG5MDG6
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Examples of good practices in using DevInfo
The CEE/CIS case
Countries with databases developedCountries with databases development in progress
Note: The boundaries and the names shown and the designations used on these maps do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.
Example of Country-led National Database………in Low Income countriesin Low Income countries
KyrgyzInfo
EFA-Info (EFA – Education for All), jointly designed and developed
by NSC, MoE and Health Progress Center, contains information on
education according to UNESCO standards and definitions.
Health-Info, designed to provide evidence to the Health Care Reform
(Manas-Taalemi Programme) contains a wide range of health
indicators. Data are presented at the 2-d sub-national level.
Example of DevInfo database in Low Income countries
TojikInfo
TojikInfo provides key development indicators on Tajikistan and
gender statistics, including data from the most recent household
surveys conducted by SCS, such as Multiple Indicator Cluster
Survey 2000 and 2005 (national and regional levels).
http://www.tojikinfo.tj/
Example of DevInfo databases in Low Income countries
Countries with databases developedCountries with databases development in progress
Note: The boundaries and the names shown and the designations used on these maps do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.
Example of Country-led National Database………in Middle Income Countriesin Middle Income Countries
DevInfo Srbija
http://devinfo.stat.gov.rs
• Database is updated regularly, twice a year• It has 328 indicators at the national level, out of which 92
indicators are with data for municipality level (3rd sub-national level)
and data on minority populations (Roma). • National DevInfo database is used for planning and monitoring the
implementation of MDGs, NPA (National Plan of Action for Children)
and the Poverty Reduction Strategy. • Databases are also used for monitoring the realization of LPAs
(Local Plans of Action for children) in 21 municipalities in Serbia.
Example of DevInfo database in Middle Income Countries
Example of Country-led National Database…
Note: The boundaries and the names shown and the designations used on these maps do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.
Countries with databases developedCountries with databases development in progress
… … in EU Member Statesin EU Member States
Bul Info
The current version of the database is designed to monitor:• MDGs – both global and revised national goals; • EU social inclusion through the Laeken indicators; • Demographic strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria, • National Plan for CRC Implementation
Example of DevInfo database in EU Members States
OK …but what’s the impact of the
use of Devinfo-based
databases?
Data presented through DevInfo are being
used for Evidence Based Decision Making …
DevInfo-based data are used at Government policy makers and major stakeholders, including to the Parliament in Kazakhstan and Serbia
DevInfo-based data are presented in strategic national Conferences, such as at the EU Conference on Social Inclusion in Macedonia and the National Conference on Poverty in Tajikistan
In Serbia, DevInfo-based data informed the public hearing at the National Parliament on “Child health. Challenges and solutions”
Preliminary results achieved through the use of DevInfo-based data for evidence-based policy advocacy
In Serbia, DevInfo-based data were instrumental to initiate:– the establishment of the National Commission on
Young Children Nutrition and feeding practices; – the initiative to ban corporal punishment, coordinated
by the Serbian NGO network in partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy
DevInfo-based M&E systems instrumental to increase attention and public investments in children:
In Serbia, DevInfo-based M&E system to monitor LPA, was instrumental to:– Increase investment for children seven-fold in two
years– Reduced by 50% number of Roma children in
spec.inst.
In Moldova, DevInfo-based PRS M&E system was instrumental to:
– Increase investment in social sectors by 21% in 2006