Challenges of failing to link monitoring and evaluation findings with development interventions in Limpopo province, South Africa
Challenges of failing to link monitoring and evaluation findings with development interventions in Limpopo province, South Africa

Summary/Abstract: The task of monitoring and Evaluation has been recently introduced to issues of governance in departments of the Republic of South Africa. The National government has also introduced a ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. The introduction of this ministry follows the realisation of poor implementation of policies introduced mainly with the view to empower poor communities by improving their living conditions. The National government, as part of introducing Development Interventions developed the National Development Plan 2030 aimed at realising significant if not total development in the country in the year 2030. Provinces had to follow suit and introduce their development plans aligned to the national one. Limpopo Province responded by developing the Limpopo Development plan (LDP) for the years 2015/19 with the aim of getting part or complete development improvement by 2019.Through the use of qualitative methodology techniques it was found that all departments do not seem to be moving with required pace to realise goals of the LDP hence this study aiming at releasing findings that, if seriously considered by the Executive Council of the Provincial Government and be used as decision making tools will assist in speeding the delivery processes using Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) findings as decision making tool in all eleven departments of the Province. Although not all outcomes of the LDP 2015/2019 are probed examples taken from the 14 are used to depict the challenge of not linking M & E findings to development interventions as stated in the LDP 2015/2019. The way forward or intervention is then suggested in this study.

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