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National Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluating is one of the sections in the Division of Leprosy, TB and Lung Disease that collects, cleans,collates and analyse all the Divisions data, developing research protocols for the studies undertaken by the division, This entails routine tracking of programs using input, process, and outcome data that are collected on a regular, ongoing basis.
The Monitoring and Evaluation is key in the Division's day to day management of its programmes and provides program managers with the information and insight needed for strategic planning, program design and implementation, and informed decision making about human and financial resources.
The evaluation component of monitoring and evaluation allows for extensive analysis of program data. Evaluations determines whether a program is on track to meet stated objectives and if not, corrective measures are instituted midway during the project implementation. The Evaluation component of the section is designed to assess the extend to which programs achieve the desired impact on the target population. The monitoring and impact evaluation allows the measurement of activity coverage in target populations and identification of gaps and underserved populations.
Categorization of Indicators
The basic overview of the logical framework drives M&E and contains 3 main sections including:
- A description of what the programme is doing and how it proposes to measure the outputs and outcomes of the programme,
- Where the data come from to measure the indicators, and
- A summary list of the main evaluation strategies being used by the programme.
Indicators
The National Strategy was used as the framework of activities to select the indicators used to measure progress towards Kenya’s goal of reducing TB morbidity and mortality over the next 5 years.Priority SMART indicators are agreed upon by the programme officers to be key measures for the particular objective, and provide the national programme with useful information that is presented publicly.
The indicators provide the National Programme with the capability of putting together a sufficient empirical picture of different pieces of the programme and measuring the overall objectives. Without an idea of what the programme elements are doing (i.e. the output measures of the activities), and how well these activities are being achieved, it is hard to objectively measure why the major outcomes of treatment, delays in diagnosis, case detection or even case notification are changing. Monitoring and Evaluation Section is divided into two units viz: routine Monitoring and Research.