In response to a 2008 National Research Council report on USAID's democracy evaluation capacity, USAID has reported initiating several steps--for example, designing impact evaluations for six missions as part of a pilot program.
6 million that will assist the Government of Jamaica in the implementation of its medium term action plan to improve performance management, monitoring and evaluation capacity of the public sector.
Components include (a) improvement of coverage and quality of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE); (b) improvement of primary education by revising existing curriculum and testing and evaluating instruments, modernizing teacher education, and development of a strategy to introduce Spanish as a first foreign language on a national scale in primary education, and school mapping to assess the need for rehabilitation, replacement, and rationalization of primary schools; (c) support for implementing the Ministry of Education's policy to create an inclusive education system catering to students with different learning needs; and (d) strengthening the MOE to improve the management of the education sector, its monitoring and evaluation capacity, and project execution.
6 million that will assist the Government of Jamaica in the implementation of its medium term action plan to improve performance management, monitoring and evaluation capacity of the public sector.
Jamaica is seeking US$450,000 from The Inter-American Development Bank for Strengthening GOJs Capacity to Manage for Results (JA-T1015): The program would strengthen results-based management in Jamaica by supporting the preparation of a Medium Term Action Plan to improve the performance, management, monitoring and evaluation capacity of the public sector.
On the other hand, it is possible that unrealistic expectations, an unsophisticated model of evaluation, lack of strategic involvement of stakeholders and inadequate investment in appropriate evaluation capacity building will result in the current wave of enthusiasm ultimately turning to disillusionment.
Monitoring & evaluation capacity will be built through post-graduate education and by working to fill existing gaps in information through standardizing verbal autopsy and cause of death coding.
