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The challenge of monitoring and evaluation under the new aid modalities: experiences from Rwanda
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Abstract
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| Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are sensitive issues in relations between donor agencies and recipient governments, especially in a time when the responsibility for implementing aid activities is shifting towards recipients. This paper deplores that, so far, donors and recipients have adopted an overly technocratic approach to M&E, largely disregarding broader institutional and systemic issues. Using case study material from Rwanda, we illustrate that assessments regarding the quality of a countrys M&E efforts may differ sharply depending upon ones perspective. At the core of the matter is the denial of politics , one of the most serious flaws in the new aid paradigm promoted in the OECDs 2005 Paris Declaration . We argue that while a narrowly defined technocratic vision of M&E may seem politically neutral , in fact it may jeopardise M&Es functions of accountability and feedback. This can eventually undermine the effective implementation of some of the key principles of the new aid approach. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of modern African studies. - Cambridge, 1963, currens
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Publication
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Cambridge
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2008
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ISSN
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0022-278X
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1469-7777
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DOI
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10.1017/S0022278X08003492
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Volume/pages
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46
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(2008)
, p. 577-602
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ISI
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000261520200003
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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