A growing number of governments are working to improve their performance by creating systems to measure and help them understand their performance. These systems for monitoring and evaluation (M and E) are used to measure the quantity, quality and targeting of the goods and services - the outputs - that the state provides, and to measure the outcomes and impacts resulting from these outputs. These systems are also a vehicle to facilitate understanding of the causes of good and poor performance. This volume begins by focusing on exactly what monitoring and evaluation has to offer to...