Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation is one of the cornerstones of a country’s response to fighting a disease; it provides the information needed to make evidence-based decisions for program management and improvement, policy formulation, and advocacy. It also generates good-quality data to satisfy accountability requirements. Investing in strengthening a national monitoring and evaluation system is important as it will eventually save resources that may otherwise be spent in inefficient programs or overlapping activities supported by different partners.

Monitoring and evaluation is intrinsic to the Global Fund’s system of performance-based funding, which was developed to ensure that funding decisions are based on a transparent assessment of results against time-bound targets.

This section outlines the Global Fund monitoring and evaluation requirements; provides links to monitoring and evaluation tools and guidelines; and provides an update on monitoring and evaluation assessments conducted or planned at country level.

Monitoring and evaluation requirements and processes

The following framework summarizes Global Fund monitoring and evaluation requirements and processes. Some specifics, such as timing for performance frameworks, may vary from country to country depending on the nature of the grant and the period it covers. Details on each of the requirements and processes can be found in the documents under Guidelines and Tools.

DQA - Data Quality Audit
LFA - Local Fund Agent
M+E - Monitoring and Evaluation
OSDV - On-site Data Verification
PF - Performance Framework
PR - Principal Recipient