Course on monitoring and evaluation arragments for social protection systems in Mozambique

This project was the result of a bidding process requested by Mozambique’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Action (Ministerio de Genero, Crianca e Acção Social—MCGAS) and the National Institute for Social Action (Instituto Nacional de Acção Social—INAS) for the EU-SPS programme, with the financial support of the European Union, the OECD Development Centre and the Government of Finland.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Capacity-Strengthening and Advisory Services

Social Protection

A one-week course on Monitoring and Evaluation

Aiming to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation skills and knowledge of MGCAS and INAS staff, the course took place in Maputo from 27 February to 3 March 2017. Four researchers, Fábio Veras Soares and Lívia Nogueira (IPC-IG) and Antonio Claret and Joana Mostafa (Ipea), covered the following topics:

• principles and tools of M&Evaluation systems;

• use of administrative data from the social sector to inform M&E systems;

• use of national household surveys in the M&E of social protection programmes; and

• impact evaluation methods for social protection programmes.