The need for results delivery in private- and public-sector organisations has increased and along with it the pressure on organisations to demonstrate their performance. As operational resources remain limited, organisations are effectively being expected to deliver more results with less input, and it has become even more essential to consider from the outset how the success, failure or progress of any endeavour will be periodically examined. Monitoring and evaluation of policies, programmes and projects examines the key concepts and practices involved in performance tracking and evaluation.

Monitoring and evaluation of policies, programmes and projects carefully balances theory and practice to make the content easy to understand and apply in the workplace. This edition also begins unpacking the issue of decolonialisation and the emerging area of indigenous monitoring and evaluation (IM&E).

Contents include the following:

• Monitoring and evaluation in the context of public policy
• Practical guide for public policy monitoring and evaluation
• Programmes/projects and the results-based management approach
• Delivering results with developmental interventions
• Executing programme/project monitoring and evaluation
• Human resource aspect of monitoring and evaluation
• Institutionalising policy monitoring and evaluation in the organisation
• Deepening monitoring and evaluation practice through participatory monitoring and evaluation
• Using research in the monitoring and evaluation of policies, programmes and projects
• Decolonising public administration and governance through the indigenisation of monitoring and evaluation