NUTRITION MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLAN
This Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan is a supplementary document to Yemen’s recently developed Common Results Framework (CRF) for Nutrition and its Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (MSNAP). Those two documents were developed through a consultative and participatory process led by the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Yemen Secretariat (housed within the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation), in close collaboration with selected central-level line ministries that will be instrumental in the delivery of nutrition services and interventions outlined in the CRF and MSNAP. Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Plus provided technical support in the development of this M&E plan, the CRF and the MSNAP.
Thus, the plan includes indicators and an M&E approach that is deemed to be realistic in the short to medium term. It also highlights M&E-related activities that will facilitate the rebuilding, reactivation and/or introduction of processes and institutional arrangements.
Purpose of a monitoring and evaluation plan
Yemen nutrition stakeholders recognise the need to institute measures to monitor and evaluate progress towards agreed goals and objectives. An investment in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is therefore critical to successful implementation of the MSNAP. This M&E plan outlines indicators, processes and tools that serve five key purposes:
- To track progress of different administrative bodies (e.g. government line ministries) and other implementers in improving key results linked to CRF/MSNAP goals and objectives.
- To support efforts that will foster accountability for results linked to nutrition impact.
- To better target support to nutritionally vulnerable populations.
- To support evidence-informed decision-making
- To support learning across different stakeholders.