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