Consultative Work (Laos) monitoring existing projects.

(a) UNFPA apos s planning, monitoring, and evaluation of technical cooperation projects

Good practice may include monitoring of a sample of projects in a bundle.

In addition, there were several deficiencies in the monitoring and evaluation of projects.

(g) UNDP should reaffirm the requirement for on site monitoring of projects (para. 155)

A joint mechanism for appraising and monitoring such projects will be established.

There is also limited facility at headquarters for effective financial monitoring of programmes and projects.

These mechanisms include semi annual reviews of all projects, as well as quarterly reviews and annual monitoring missions for all technical cooperation projects.

Apart from strengthening the monitoring and oversight of projects, there should be effective internal evaluation of completed projects and evaluation arrangements should be qualitatively upgraded.

OIOS recommended that the Governing Council recover unspent monitoring and assessment award funds and continue tracking continuing monitoring and assessment projects.

These have been identified as electoral assistance, border monitoring and short term projects.

IFAD (2001) has developed guidance for monitoring the progress of projects, and this may be helpful.

109. The review included an examination of UNDP procedures for preparing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating projects.

16. There were several deficiencies in the monitoring and evaluation of projects (see paras. 48 52).

The means for individuals and communities to participate in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects

Above all, monitoring of projects has become highly mechanistic and had not always been carried out effectively.

The work also involved an assessment of how ITC manages projects, including procedures for monitoring and evaluation.

122. UNDP is fully aware of the limited facility at headquarters for effective financial monitoring of programmes and projects.

The Board welcomes the introduction of a standard report format for monitoring the progress of ITC trust fund projects.

To enable meaningful physical monitoring of projects, realistic targets should be fixed jointly by UNHCR and implementing partners.

20. UNDP should reaffirm the requirement for on site monitoring of projects (paras. 10 (g), 29 and 155).

The administration expects that this unit will be able to address shortfalls in monitoring and evaluation of projects.

29. The Board concluded that monitoring of projects has become highly mechanistic and had not been carried out effectively in 40 per cent of the projects examined (paras. 151 157).

31. The Board found that there is limited facility at headquarters for effective financial monitoring of programmes and projects.

Thus, some of these organizations are involved in small scale development projects in addition to training, advocacy and monitoring.

This has led to capitalizing approaches, identifying impact indicators, highlighting the contributors of projects and reinforcing the exchanges between projects in the national system of monitoring and evaluation in the NAP.

102. The absence of quantifiable objectives and outputs for projects and lack of a comprehensive project monitoring system means that ITC does not operate a monitoring system at programme or subprogramme level.

(d) Conducting and monitoring special projects in the areas of productivity strategy, streamlining of processes, and dissemination of best practices in management.

Further, detailed cost plans were not submitted to enable financial and physical monitoring and control of the trust fund projects.

29. In Guyana, WFP approached the newly opened OAS office to explore cooperation in monitoring and evaluation of ongoing projects.

In 23 (40 per cent) of the projects examined, the Board concluded that monitoring had not been carried out effectively.

(iii) Field projects preparation, implementation and monitoring, in cooperation with a range of implementing partners, of annual projects directly related to international protection and involving activities related to local settlement, repatriation and resettlement.

A project procedures manual, issued in December 2003, sets out procedures for the authorization and monitoring of advance allotments to projects.

(q) Monitoring the implementation of care and maintenance projects and assessing their impact on the target beneficiaries, especially women and children.

With regard to the 16 ongoing monitoring and assessment projects, the Panel stated that 12 of them continued to be reasonable monitoring and assessment activities in accordance with Governing Council decision 132.

Projects included the monitoring of cannabis cultivation in Morocco finding alternative activities for cannabis farmers monitoring the impact of cannabis trafficking out of North Africa into Europe HIV AIDS corruption and the trafficking of Afghan heroin.

CDM projects have a rigorous mechanism for ensuring additionality, for avoiding double counting, and for monitoring and verification.

(i) Management of extrabudgetary resources, particularly concerning technical cooperation projects, including project documents review, allocations issuance, monitoring of expenditure implementation and financial reporting.

Monitoring reports should be organized as an integral part of national assessments of socio economic performance to ensure that monitoring findings and recommendations are effectively reflected in decisions taken on development policies, programmes and projects.

Comment by the Administration. UNIDIR has been conducting periodic evaluations of its projects and has been reporting the status for monitoring purposes.

158. As noted above, the Board found that there is limited facility at headquarters for effective financial monitoring of programmes and projects.

This step is bound to ensure improved coordination, as well as effective monitoring and implementation of UNRWA apos s activities and projects.

The Atlas system permits real time financial monitoring and has allowed the consolidation and closure of old projects and the preparation of shadow budgets.

The Department accepted the importance of monitoring the substantive progress of projects and stated there was a critical need to develop a new guidance.

Joint field monitoring of programme and projects among stakeholders helps in building a common approach and should be encouraged in the NAP context.