Week 4: Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Protection Measures

FAO, in partnership with the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), presents the fourth session of the tailored e-learning course on Designing and Implementing Adaptive Social Protection Systems. This session discusses monitoring and evaluation for social protection systems with the contributions of Ms. Namrata Chindarkar, Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Mr. Silvio Daidone, Econometrician at FAO, and Dr. Michael Samson, Director of Research at EPRI. The speakers, first, outline the vital role played by evaluation in the design of social protection systems and then focus on how monitoring can support good evidence building with examples from India and Sub-Saharan Africa.