| DAR-PDMS Director Presents Country Paper on M&E in Nepal Conference |
Ms. Herminia Fe B. San Juan, Director of the DAR – Project Development Management Service (PDMS) / Foreign – Assisted Projects Office – Monitoring & Evaluation Staff (FAPsO MES), represented the country in the recently concluded Regional Trainer’s Training Programme on “Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation” held on 21-30 June 2006 at the Local Development Training Academy (LDTA) in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal. The training was organized by the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) in cooperation with LDTA, the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD – Hyderabad, India), and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD – Kathmandu, Nepal). In the course of the programme, Dir. San Juan was recognized by the training participants for her comprehensive presentation on the Philippines’ Policy Framework for M&E of Development Programs and Projects as well as the Department of Agrarian Reform’s Monitoring and Evaluation Systems and its efforts in Participatory M&E. She was joined in the presentation of country papers by other senior-level representatives from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, and Bhutan. The 10-day training was held to enhance regional cooperation and the sharing of experiences among member countries, and in line with the recommendation of CIRDAP’s Technical Committee Meeting (TC-20) in Colombo, Sri Lanka wherein all CIRDAP country members expressed their commitment to develop and enhance the capacity of implementers in understanding M&E tools in project planning and management. Specifically, the training aimed to: a) train a group of officials drawn from the Ministries and CIRDAP link institutions on the emerging methodologies for understanding of M&E tools and methods related to poverty alleviation; b) illustrate general data collection methods, analytical frameworks and types of evaluation and results; and c) make choices on the techniques as is appropriate in a given context which include the main stakeholders interest in M&E findings, the speed with which information is needed for impact assessment, etc. To achieve the above objectives, the participants not only shared their respective countries’ practices in M&E, but also conducted field visits in the villages of Sardikhota and Sarangkot in Kasaki. During their fieldwork, the participants observed and interacted with community organization members who were running and handling income-generating activities/enterprises. The culmination of the training saw all participants committing specific action plans upon return to their respective countries. Dir. San Juan in particular envisioned enhancement workshops that would review and redefine existing participatory M&E frameworks, concepts, principles, and notions within DAR. She expected that these enhancement workshops would ultimately result in the improvement of monitoring and evaluation of DAR’s activities, particularly the implementation of foreign-assisted projects. view the complete MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS & PROJECTS paper (by Jose Roi Avena) |
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