Taking Management Digital : Lessons from the Development of an Innovative Management Information System for Small Businesses in Ethiopia
In many aid projects, monitoring and evaluation is a static exercise driven by donor reporting requirements. After project closure, there are seldom sustainable benefits of the monitoring and evaluation system. This paper examines how monitoring an...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/969381539176369651/Taking-Management-Digital-Lessons-from-the-Development-of-an-Innovative-Management-Information-System-for-Small-Businesses-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30575 |
Summary: | In many aid projects, monitoring and
evaluation is a static exercise driven by donor reporting
requirements. After project closure, there are seldom
sustainable benefits of the monitoring and evaluation
system. This paper examines how monitoring and evaluation
can be transformed into a dynamic tool for effective project
management, with benefits carrying over beyond the typical
project lifecycle. The paper assesses an innovative, digital
management information system developed under the Women
Entrepreneurship Development Project, a Government of
Ethiopia initiative financed by a World Bank International
Development Association loan and grant funding from Global
Affairs Canada. The paper examines the context of the
development of the management information system, its
effectiveness, and its potential for sustainability.
Ethiopia is among the poorest countries in the world, and
government administration units involved in administering
projects often face funding and resource shortfalls. The
paper demonstrates how effective and sustainable monitoring
and evaluation systems can be developed even in challenging
contexts such as these, by focusing on simple technical
solutions that can be maintained and refined locally,
ensuring low development and maintenance costs compatible
with government monitoring and evaluation budgets, and
linking project-level monitoring and evaluation to broader
government operations. |
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