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democratization, outcome 2 on poverty reduction and disaster risk management, and outcome 3 on
basic social services. The two MDG-F joint programmes are cross-cutting all three UNDAF outcomes with
specific focuses on UNDAF outcome 3. It will contribute to the country’s development efforts on MDGs.
4. UNDAF M&E working groups were established to support the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of
the UNDAF and MDGs in Timor-Leste. Based on UNDAF framework, three M&E working groups were
established in early 2009. The main purpose of these M&E Groups is to provide technical oversight for
the consolidation of the M&E reports relating to UNDAF outcomes and provide support for the
implementation, M&E for the UNDAF outcomes, to facilitate collaboration among main partners,
including UNCT agencies and others; and to build strong constituency of stakeholders around the issues
concerned.
The UNDAF M&E working group will also provide inputs into the design of the MDG joint programming
or monitoring strategy, including provision of technical input into the formulation and implementation
of UN MDG joint programming or joint monitoring involving Government as well as facilitating linkages
with Timor-Leste DevInfo. This proposed MDG-F M&E action plan will support the M&E working group
to achieve this result.
5. M&E capacity in the Government is still very weak. Timor-Leste Devinfo, a national social and
economic database managed by the National Statistics Directorate, was created, launched and
introduced for use by sectoral ministries in December 2006, with the support of UNICEF, UNFPA and
UNDP. The database was then updated in 2008 with the data produced in the 2007 Timor-Leste Survey
of Living Standards.
The overall capacity for monitoring and evaluation in Timor-Leste is still very weak. The government
officials and other national development partners including NGOs and CSOs have neither knowledge of
basic concepts and principles of M&E, nor the tools and technical skills to implement M&E policies.
The Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education are still developing systems for information and data
collection with the support of the UN. Disaggregated data, especially by gender and by geographic areas,
is insufficient. Use of data for evidence-based decision making is not yet systematic.
The MDG-F M&E action plan also includes activities to improve the capacity of government and NGOs on
monitoring and evaluation of the development programmes at both national and district level. The
training will address the challenges of limited knowledge and skills of the government officials with the
focus on assessing progress towards the MDGs, including gender-disaggregated data collection and
analysis, and how to use data (through DevInfo and conducting data analysis) for evidenced-based policy
development and decision making. The target groups will be the national senior officials such as Ministry
Proposed M&E activities:
This MDG-F Monitoring and Evaluation action plan will support the implementation of the two joint
programmes in Timor-Leste, and generate good practices and lessons learned from the implementation.
Apart from the mandatory global participatory evaluation with case study, the funds will support a
baseline study to get information of key programme monitoring indicators, especially on Knowledge,
Attitude and Practices (KAP) at household and facility level. The study will also support the Food security
and Nutrition joint programme to develop detailed intervention activities based on assessment of the
needs. The baseline information will be expected to feed into the global participatory case study
evaluation on the joint programmes.