In response to the challenges of monitoring PAF and other intervention mechanisms, which include limited numbers of monitors at the district level, UDN has had to reshape the strategy of monitoring done by a few PAFMCs at the district level, to the Community Based Monitoring and Evaluation System (CBMES).
The CBMES aims to empower communities to articulate their development needs and priorities, as well as efforts to mobilize communities in the local development planning, management, and evaluation process of service delivery. The initiative entails local communities measuring the performance of government programmes by obtaining information about the quality and quantity outputs over a certain period of time and comparing this with the publicly declared outputs of those programmes.
This method not only offers the opportunity for tracking and monitoring government decision making but also involves constituencies in research, empowerment and building capacity to bring about significant change and facilitating in depth learning by large numbers of people on the issues which concern them.
It is envisaged that the CBMES will involve communities in large numbers to participate in monitoring and also supplement the work of PAFMCs
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