Framework for Monitoring and Evaluation of Water Resource Management Projects
INTRODUCTION
By way of contextual background to the more technical material describing particular M&E practices, the document begins by describing some of the major institutional and technical characteristics that influence management practices in Thailand’s water resources management sector, and considers the implications these have specifically for improving M&E practices.
The document then summarises the major features of Results-Based Management (RBM), in order to establish a common understanding of terminology and the approach to contemporary M&E.
Some principles for developing results frameworks at the sector level are then described. Here the emphasis is on trying to integrate the work of various RTG agencies active in different sub-sectors in one management framework, showing how individually and collectively they contribute to the achievement of expected results.
After this, (and now at the level of individual projects and programs) the document summarises the application of the design and monitoring framework (DMF). As part of a Project Performance Monitoring System (PPMS) the DMF is both an investment design tool as well as a management/monitoring one.