The regional coordination of the West African food system resilience programme (PRSA/FSRP) has invited all the programme's monitoring and evaluation specialists to a workshop to design tools for monitoring and collecting data on the programme's results and activities, as well as training on the MESECOPS platform, from 19 to 23 June in Agbélouvé, Togo.
The twenty or so participants from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Togo, Ghana, Chad, CORAF and CILSS harmonised their understanding of the PRSP's planning, monitoring-evaluation and reporting system, focusing on the MESECOPS platform and the roles of the players involved.
For five days, the PRSP's monitoring and evaluation specialists worked on developing the data collection tools that will serve as evidence of the implementation of the activities and the beneficiaries affected, and familiarised themselves with the methods for integrating the annual work plans and budget (PTBA) into the MESECOPS platform for monitoring and reporting on their implementation in real time.
Through practical exercises preceded by specific examples, the key concepts and main indicators of the PRSP were explained and experiences were also shared, with the aim of "facilitating effective and high-quality monitoring and reporting of PRSP results and activities, thus documenting the multiple interventions in the field and capitalising on the results of activities for the evaluation of the effects and impacts of the PRSP", emphasised Maty BA-DIAO, Regional Coordinator of the PRSP, who chaired the meeting. She encouraged the monitoring and evaluation specialists to put into practice all the knowledge acquired in order to provide the programme with a robust monitoring and evaluation system to ensure the collection, processing, analysis and sharing of information at national and regional levels.
This workshop is the first in a series of meetings to be organised as part of the programme's monitoring and evaluation system. It enabled monitoring and evaluation specialists to gain a common understanding not only of the indicators but also of the data collection and processing tools.
They drew up a joint roadmap with clear actions enabling them to document the FSRP's interventions at national and regional level.
