Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Strengthening Tool (MESST)
The MESST was designed as a generic tool to assess monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans and systems by assessing data collection, reporting, and management systems to measure indicators of program and project success. It addresses the M&E plan and systems that need to be in place to collect and channel data up a system for aggregation into relevant indicators for program management and reporting. The MESST can be used at the national level, within groups of projects, and within individual projects or organizations that are seeking to assess M&E data collection and reporting systems and to implement action plans for strengthening M&E.
The MESST has been designed to:
- Assess the M&E plan and capacities of the program's/project's implementing capacity
- Evaluate how the M&E activities of programs/projects are linked and integrated within the National M&E system
- Help develop a costed action plan to strengthen M&E systems
The developed action plan should help identify M&E gaps and corresponding strengthening measures, guide investments in M&E, ensure that these investments contribute to the strengthening of national systems (avoiding parallel reporting), and improve the quality of programmatic data to enhance planning and program management.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Download:
- Tool
in English, in French and guidelines for implementing the tool in English from the Global Fund website - Contact:
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- The overall objective of the MESST is to help national programs and associated projects improve their M&E and the quality of data generated to measure success of implemented activities
- Scope of interventions
- HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, M&E plan and budget, Global Fund proposal writing
- Limitations
- Output
- Action plan to enable the appropriate follow-up measures to strengthen M&E
- Time frame
- The MESST should be used each time programs/projects revise their M&E plan and budget
- Potential users
- National program managers, project Ooficers, partners and donors
- Skills required
- Programmatic skills, experience in M&E
- Type of software
- MS Excel and Adobe PDF
- User manual available?
- Instructions are given in the document and guidelines for implementing the tool are available on the Global Fund website
- Type and length of training required
- NA
- Available languages
- The pdf version is available in English and French; the Excel version is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian
- Country applications
- All countries that submitted a Global Fund application. A list of successful country applications per Round and disease can be obtained at the Global Fund web site.
- Last update and version
- July 2007