M&E– Paving Way Towards Success

Monitoring and Evaluation or M&E in any organization helps project managers and other stakeholders to know the extent of their projects meeting the objectives and goals; thereby leading to their desired outcomes. Moreover, M&E identifies the gaps hampering the project’s progress from time to time. Similarly, the M&E wing of PIFRA is providing a continuous self assessment framework that shows/indicates the progress against each performance indicator during their implementation phase.

In this regard, the M&E after the last visit of World Bank Mission in year 2006, started preparing the M&E outcome assessment questionnaire for all stakeholders. The questionnaires were designed in such a manner so as to get the input for latest updates against each performance indicator as well as to obtain suggestions on various issues from these stakeholders. All stakeholders took active part in completing the questionnaires and floated their suggestions in different areas of the project implementation.

With the arrival of the World Bank Mission in December 2006, the M&E Wing along with the M&E Consultant to World Bank Mr. William Allan held series of meetings with the stakeholders in order to explore the avenues to get maximum benefits of PIFRA II. In this regard, Mrs. Sheena Ali Mansoor (Head M&E) gave a detailed presentation to W.B Mission about the baseline assessment report prepared exclusively by her department covering the areas of Effective and Transparent Fiscal management, Effective & Transparent Financial Reporting, Control and Audit, Indicators of Poverty Reduction and Indicators of Corruption Reduction. The Mission appreciated the concerted efforts put in by the M&E wing and observed that its substantial progress can play a significant role in brining all the stakeholders closer thereby overcoming the barriers towards achieving project outcomes.