Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy, Wales

Kathryn HelliwellResearch, Monitoring & Evaluation

(RME) Teamkathryn.helliwell@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Why include monitoring too?

to highlight different roles of monitoring & evaluation

to highlight relationship between monitoring & evaluation

monitoring requires attention in its own right!

The monitoring & evaluation relationship

context

baseline

sampling frame

identifier

Evaluation questions

is there an impact?

Result indicators CIEs where possible (at programme & project level) regular surveys of supported businesses TBIEs at project level

Evaluation questions

what interventions are most effective (i.e. have the largest impact)?

Analysis of repeated surveys (to get large enough samples) comparison of CIE evidence where available consideration of TBIE evidence

Evaluation questions

what types of businesses / jobs?

area of PMC interest! analysis of monitoring data regular surveys of supported businesses

Other Evaluation questions

(mainly qualitative)

do we have a good balance of interventions? are we integrating the CCTs effectively? are our processes effective?

Structure, resources, organising principles

RME Team will: monitor programmes evaluate programmes advise projects on project level evaluation

10 M&E staff on ERDF & ESF 5 million euros

Learning from 2007-2013

Monitoring & evaluation aren’t ends in themselves

Collecting business level data is really, really important

Need to avoid duplication between project & programme level evaluation

Thank you for listening!

Any questions?