Effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation System in Non Governmental Organization Sectors (NGOs) to Community Development Projects in North “A” District in Zanzibar.

Suleiman, Suleiman Mngana (2020) Effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation System in Non Governmental Organization Sectors (NGOs) to Community Development Projects in North “A” District in Zanzibar. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study examined the effectiveness of M&E system in Non Governmental Organization sectors (NGOS) to Community development projects of north “A” district in Zanzibar. The study focused on the following specific objectives: to examine how financial resources are effective in M&E system, to assess how M&E staff affect the effectiveness of M&E system in north district of Zanzibar and to examine how the role of management affect the effectiveness of M&E system.The study will help NGOs, donor, agencies and the projects management in better understanding of the M&E systems and how to improve them to meet their expectations. The study involved sample size of 118 respondents from the 16 NGOs and the responses rate were about 76 percent,the distribution of the respondents were Ngos management teams and Monitoring and Evaluation staffs. The study used questionnaires, focus group discussions and Interviews to collect primary data. The collected data were sorted, cleaned, edited and coded for uses. The findings of the study analyzed using percentages and frequencies then presented using tables. The findings indicate that the low financial resources, human capacity in M&E and management participation the performance of the M&E system were caused poor performances of NGOs to meat community development, the NGOs should continuous to strength the capacity building to their staffs on planning, design,execution (including monitoring and controlling) and evaluation technical skills especially in information systems for M&E and take on board the stake holders since the formulation of M&E framework is designed. Keywords: Effectiveness of M&E system, Non-Governmental Organization,Community development projects, Zanzibar.

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