Assessing Project Monitoring & Evaluation practices in Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau the case of Center for Diseases Control (CDC) project.
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2018-06-17
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Addis Ababa University
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This study is aimed to assess the project M&E practice of AACAHB in implementing CDC/PEPFAR funded project on local capacity building with a particular focus on strengthening monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS services within the Addis Ababa city health system. The current practice has been assessed in lights of the best project M&E practices as acknowledge in many literatures. The study adopted a descriptive research design and utilizes a qualitative method to collect and analyse data on project M&E practices. Semi structured and open ended interview questions as primary sources and document review as secondary source are used. The responses of study participants are organized for analysis in the form of narratives by doing possible triangulation. The findings show that project M&E is not consistently practiced and the role of M&E is narrowly understood to the level of data collection quality assurance than the broader strategic project issues. The key factors that affect effective M&E practice are lack of project management knowledge and skill from top management, technical skill gap in M&E team, non-institutionalized M&E system and the project structure being functional. Innovative project M&E practices recommended for overall project success by considering M&E beyond data collection to the strategic project issues. The project team has to be organized under separate project management unit that the existing organizational functional structure. Capacity building for top management and M&E team on project management and M&E practices respectively. The M&E system should be institutionalized at all level of the health sector to ensure local ownership and sustainability after donor fund cease out.
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M&E practice, Capacity Building, Sustainability, HIV/AIDS