RE: How to Measure the Impact of Monitoring and Evaluation Work | Eval Forward

Dear Abubakar,

Thank you very much for your response and queries.

I will go by Dr. Emile's viewpoint, generally it's not actually the monitoring & evaluation system itself which transforms into impact, rather the way the interventions/actions/projects are designed becomes critical to assess the impact of certain interventions.

If I correctly understand your queries, the impact M&E can drive is simply the question of having M&E system in place or vice versa. For this, as far as my understanding and experience is concerned, you need to perform some sort of counterfactual analysis (probably using systematic reviews/mixed methods/triangulation) to determine whether having M&E systems in place transformed into some sort of policy change/ improvement or not, no matter what sector/ indicators you are taking into the consideration. The scale and breadth of such analysis would be dependent upon various factors (including but not limited to resources, expertise, priority areas, number of interventions to account for).

Happy to discuss further in case of any queries.

Regards,

Zahid Shabbir

Joint Director | Program Management Division | AC & MFD |State Bank of Pakistan |