Monitoring and Evaluation: Data Management Systems

In Monitoring and Evaluation, most manuals currently available emphasize either M and E or Evaluation. Here is a primer with a significant difference. If you are already an expert or still a neophyte with a strong urge to improve your skills including those who have always wanted to know but feared asking, here is a manual for you that is unique, inclusive, simple (no technical jargon) and practical in several extra ordinary ways. The primer covers a range of concepts, illustrations and real life cases studies. The vignette on the cover is a comprehensive example of what it is all about. The hand book leads the reader from a program management life cycle to strategic frameworks to a model designed by the author on performance indicators quality control including case studies. It has been implemented in Asia and Africa with an oral presentation made at a Canadian Evaluation Conference in Toronto, Canada. The real life cases include basic and advanced studies like randomized control trials using a quasi experimental design conducted during one of the author's evaluation assignments. The data management systems (DMS) section follows the same approach above with a framework that includes all the relevant DMS components including sections on basic statistics complemented with illustrations and more real life case studies. Concepts, illustrations and cases cover statistical means, sampling protocols and student, (t) test among others.

Bongs Lainjo, MASc, Engineering is an RBM Systems Consultant with a bias in Program Evaluation. Bongs is a former UN Senior Advisor; Program Management, Logistics and Evaluation. Before that he worked for USAID as Logistics and Management Information Systems Advisor (LISA). Earlier, he served as COP/Senior Data management Advisor for Columbia University after spending about a decade as professor in various Canadian Academic Institutions. Professionally, Bongs has worked in several countries including: Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, BangladeshBhutan, Maldives, Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and USA. Some of his activities included developing and implementing thematic (peer-reviewed PRISM, RAPSYS etc) models; developing M and E systems; developing Survey protocols, RBM, M and E training manuals; conducting workshops on M and E for UN staff and Program Implementing partners; training national staff on conducting HIV/AIDs surveys; presenting papers at International conferences; serving as Front Line Advisor in Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia during the tsunami; serving as UN Security and CT member; conducted an M and E assignments in USAID-funded projects including reviewing and revising its Program Management Plans (PMPs); conducting multi country programme thematic evaluation assignments in addition to making oral presentations at International conferences. His recent presentation was on "Sustainable Programme Management Systems" in Lyon, France.