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Monitor, Report, Evaluate to Improve (MREI) - Joint Sector Reviews
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The Global Partnership for Education has investigated Joint sector Reviews (JSRs). The GPE investigation found that JSRs "are commonly used in the development or humanitarian aid sectors, particularly within health and education, to bring a variety of stakeholders to the table to monitor and evaluate sector progress. GPE’s study contends that JSRs, when effective, can serve as a valuable tool for responsive sector planning, and may also act as platforms for building and supporting mutual accountability. JSRs are typically organized once or twice a year by the government, and offer an inclusive forum to assess progress toward agreed-upon objectives. A variety of sources of evidence are used to frame the discussions—primarily presented via an annual implementation report. The JSR process culminates in the organization of an inclusive forum for dialogue and the production of a review report (the JSR report/aide memoire) that is shared with all stakeholders and the wider public, and which contains actionable recommendations for correcting the course of action across programs within the sector". The GPE full report provides background, research and examples. GPE has also published a Practical guide for organizing effective joint sector reviews. The Rural Water & Sanitation Forum has published an excellent checklist on the use of JSR collaborative planning in WASH programs. One 2009 assessment of the use of JSRs in three low resource countries found that " They are increasingly utilised on the ground, yet, so far, there do not exist any systematic stocktakings and/or analyses of them. Our own analysis of a sample of JSRs from the education sectors of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger indicate that JSRs score highly on harmonisation, coordination, leadership and broad-based participation, but poorly on alignment. They generally prioritise accountability over learning needs and largely neglect accountability and learning at the level of the sector institutional apparatus." This article offers several citations describing the underlying assumptions of JSR with insights from evaluation theory and practice.
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