MONITORING AND EVALUATION: DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
MONITORING AND EVALUATION: DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS

Summary/Abstract: Today, the concept of monitoring and evaluation has an important role in international development area. Monitoring and evaluation support for the improvement of performance and achievement of the results concerning the intervention of international organizations. International Development is monitored and evaluated by the actors in international arena via several tools including the indicators. At this stage, Statistics has a critical role since the actors in the international development arena need the data in order to measure the performance. Due to this huge demand, statisticians have to measure the indicators related to the development. However, how will statisticians be able to cover all data under this complicated and extremely diverse domain of factors? Therefore, Statistics is not only a tool for monitoring the achievement of international goals and targets but also it is a target itself under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Within this context, a general framework on the concepts of monitoring, evaluation and indicators is outlined in this paper. While the indicators for the measurement are examined like the functions and types indicators; SDGs, their connection with Statistics and the importance of statistical community in the context of the 2030 agenda are explained. In the final part of paper, considering that Statistics is a development target, the indicators in Statistics area are focused as well as a statistical analysis on one of the indicators of the target 17.19 under the SDGs.

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