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