SHAPES needs to develop a monitoring and evaluation instrument (with technical assistance from QADS) to measure the performance of its programs in schools (ask the curriculum coordinators, community health nurses, and other relevant officers in the districts to assist in conducting periodic monitoring and assessment).
Evaluation of undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching has received ample attention in the medical education literature, and evaluation instruments have been developed and are being used to monitor teaching in postgraduate programmes [ 1].
The findings indicate that both spatial and temporal alignment influence the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policy instruments.
Several studies have shown that when countries embark on large-scale reforms of their health care systems, periodic monitoring and evaluation are fundamental instruments that ensure the achievement of the initial objectives of reform [ 1- 5].
In the case of programme monitoring and evaluation, for example, these instruments may in fact favour the information needs of some actors, such as donors, possibly to the detriment of and financial cost to governments in receipt of funds, as has sometimes occurred in HIV/AIDS programming [ 42].
While many States parties have signed bilateral and regional agreements to combat child trafficking, these instruments lack proper monitoring and evaluation systems.
Monitoring and evaluation of day-to-day field use of this instrument, ideally, in diverse settings, would lead to improvements of the instrument.
Monitoring and evaluation of projects aiming at designing, testing and applying more sustainable practices require instruments to asses agronomic as well as environmental performance.
Additionally, in this planning, practice, monitoring and evaluation III, self-assessment was promoted by means of an open-ended instrument such as a learning diary.
Celine Zegers de Beyl, monitoring and evaluation specialist, Malaria Consortium, London, UK Celine has been evaluating malaria programmes in Africa and Asia for five years, including monitoring mosquito net distribution.
