MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore how the North West Provincial Government (NWPG) is managing its economic growth and development policy. In this study, an assumption is made that the successful management EG&DP require a balanced interaction between policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. In the North West Province, the adopted policy management arrangements showed steady progress towards the achievement the set EG&DP targets yet the Province did not achieve those targets. One of the main findings of the research is that the approach by the NWPG is not comprehensive enough to deal with challenge of managing public policy. A conclusion is made that results based monitoring and evaluation (RBM&E) as a policy management tool has the capability to deal with all the challenges that impact public policy management in general and the EG&DP in particular