Midterm evaluation of MEASURE Evaluation phase III

The project's current phase, Phase III (August 2008 to August 2013), has a ceiling of up to $181 million, of which about $87 million to date has been obligated. The two previous phases of the project ran from 1997 to 2008. The project's development objective is "improved collection, analysis and presentation of data to promote better use in planning, policy-making, managing, monitoring and evaluating population, health and nutrition programs." MEASURE Evaluation Phase III is to accomplish this through achievement of the following six results related to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data: increased user demand for data for decision-making; increased technical and managerial capacity; increased collaboration and coordination; improved design and implementation of the information-gathering process; increased availability of data, methods and tools; and increased facilitation of use. To achieve these results, MEASURE Evaluation develops methodologies, disseminates data, builds capacity, promotes best practices in M&E of health programs, and works to address country and global M&E needs.