Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) in the Education Sector

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Journal of Education and Training

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The global context provides an important platform for governments to build and sustain their M&E systems by adopting the best practices and lessons. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in South African government has gradually been recognised as a mechanism to enhance good governance. The advent of framework for the government-wide M&E inculcates a culture of reflection and importance of keeping track of the policy, programme or project implementation. M&E form an indispensable part of public management and administrative tools accessible for managers to improve the business processes of the institution. M&E therefore provides a significant panacea for the growing pressure on the institutions to enhance good governance. The principles of good governance comprise accountability, transparency, rule of law, public participation, responsiveness and effectiveness. These principles correlate precisely with the values governing public administration enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. They serve as standards and indicators to monitor and measure performance. The relevance of monitoring, evaluation and good governance in Public Administration is inevitable. M&E cuts across the generic administrative and managerial functions of public administration while good governance demonstrates/exhibits the outcome of functional M&E.

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