Organizational factors affecting the effectiveness of health sector monitoring and evaluation in northern Uganda: a case study of lira district
Abstract
Majority of the respondents 70 (70%) agreed that stakeholders’ participation on health
sector monitoring and evaluation is significant, majority 79 (79%) disagreed that stakeholders in
health sectors are in most cases on standby waiting for requests from the organization team,
majority 50 (50%) of the respondents agreed that there should be a clear way of involvement in
monitoring and evaluation in order to measure the input of each stakeholder, majority 47 (47%)
of the respondents disagreed that monitoring and evaluation reports can help in detecting
whether the organization is proceeding towards the intended goals, majority of the respondents
80 (80%) were not aware of the resources allocated for health sector monitoring and evaluation
system. Findings revealed that 63 (63%) said awareness of resource allocation to stakeholders is
a key to success of monitoring and evaluation system, majority of the respondents 70 (70%)
agreed that high awareness of the organizational resource allocation helps the health sector to
specifically identify the high-risk areas of the sector and put in proper mitigation measures that
will help reduce the risk, majority 77 (77%) of the respondents do not know the monitoring and
evaluation budgets, in regards to the resources allocated for M&E majority of the respondents 70
(70%) strongly agreed that health sector allocate insufficient resources for monitoring and
evaluation