Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems

It is a great pleasure, as Director of Evaluation at UNICEF, to write a preface for this timely publication. The issue of country-led monitoring and evaluation systems has been increasingly recognized as central to the promotion of development effectiveness. The Paris Declaration and the recent follow up in the Accra Agenda for Action, stress the importance of developing and working through country systems, and explicitly refer to national monitoring systems and country-led evaluations.