Monitor, evaluate and enforce policies

Monitoring, evaluation, and enforcement are necessary to ensure compliance with policies and programmes, to measure progress towards government or organizational objectives, and to make adjustments to improve the system. ‘Monitoring and evaluation can help an organization extract relevant information from past and ongoing activities that can be used as the basis for programmatic fine-tuning, reorientation and future planning. Without effective planning, monitoring and evaluation, it would be impossible to judge if work is going in the right direction, whether progress and success can be claimed, and how future efforts might be improved’ (UNDP, 2009, p.5).

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