Assessing The Practice Of Project Monitoring And Evaluation: The Case Of Commercial Bank Of Ethiopia Projects
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2018-06-21
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Addis Ababa University
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This paper focuses on assessing the Practices of monitoring and evaluation in CBE projects. The main objective of the research is to describe the monitoring and evaluation of projects in CBE. Descriptive research design is used and both qualitative and quantitative methods are applied purposive sampling technique is used to determine sample and sample size. In a way, the researcher tried to assess the monitoring and evaluation planning, implementation of monitoring and evaluation process and challenges in application of M&E system. Concerning planning of M & E, there are good practices of M & E except the absence of separate budget for monitoring and evaluation. In the process of M & E, finance, activities and schedule are checked at least once in month. The five most challenges in M & E are lack of the right performance indicators, lack of expertise, inaccuracy in data collection, failure to prepare appropriate data collection and failure to process and analyze data. The study recommends that there should be separate budget for monitoring and evaluation of all projects. Becausethe monitoring and evaluation plan have problem in design, ideas should be forwarded and there should be a committee who can evaluate and revise the plan. The plan should provide the appropriate evaluation design and appropriate performance indicators. The monitoring and evaluation plan should also be given to experts who have both technical skills and experience. These experts shall have the skill on dada collection and processing and analyzing the collected data. Further researches are also recommended in this study
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monitoring and evaluation, practices, challenges