AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS INDICATORS FOR TRACKING RESULTS IN LESS-THAN-IDEAL CONDITIONS: A MONITORING AND EVALUATION SOURCEBOOK FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

BACKGROUND UN Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 2002: developing and developed countries made commitments to a shared responsibility to achieve development results including those embodied in the Millennium Development Goals

BACKGROUND (2) Results-based orientation will require the capacity to monitor indicators that reliably reflect results at all phases of the development process, from strategic planning to implementation to completion. Many countries lack the capacity to produce and report the necessary data to inform the international development debate or to monitor their national trends. Although the situation is improving, global databases are still filled with data gaps and inconsistencies as a result of weaknesses in national statistical systems.

PREPARATION OF INDICATORS FOR TRACKING RESULTS IN LESS-THAN-IDEAL CONDITIONS Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) aim is ultimately to improve the quality of monitoring at the global level while recognizing that strengthening the capacity to monitor must necessarily first come at the national level.

DRAFT SOURCEBOOK sourcebook provides guidance on: how to build the capacity needed for effective monitoring and evaluation in developing countries. suggests a number of approaches for determining which indicators to select, given the different types of information that are most pertinent to different agricultural and rural development (ARD) activities, projects, and programs.

DRAFT SOURCEBOOK prepared by a team of staff from WBank and FAO, with valuable inputs from many practitioners in others development agencies. test the appropriateness of the sourcebook methodology, a study was conducted by national consultants in five countries Test countries: Cambodia, Nicaragua, Senegal, Nigeria and Tanzania.

MENU OF INDICATORS Emphasis on early outcome indicators Less importance given to input and output indicators.

Group of indicators Indicators by sector and subsectors.