Independent Evaluation

Evaluation Capacity Development
Pilot Implementation of the Project Performance Management System in the Philippines

Lessons Identified

• A partial/piecemeal donor approach to implementing changes in national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) process will not be effective unless it is done in a broad M&E agenda/framework and sustained by institutional and leadership support at all levels of participating agencies.
• The exercise should have been less donor-driven and with stronger local initiative.
• The National Economic Development Authority of the Government should take a lead role in providing direction, training, and on-the-job assistance and follow up to implement and replicate the project performance management system/results monitoring and evaluation approach to projects in other departments.
• Manpower training must be institutionalized in order to develop and maintain the necessary depth of understanding and competence in M&E concepts.
• A project should be designed using the log frame.
• A project should not be approved for funding until the objectives, indicators, and targets have been clearly defined and a M&E system established.
• Funding for M&E should be anticipated and included in the project budget.
• It is difficult to undertake retrofitting of log frames for existing projects.