Monitoring and evaluation: The missing link in South African municipalities

Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

 
 
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Title Monitoring and evaluation: The missing link in South African municipalities
 
Creator Mello, David M.
 
Subject public administration; monitoring and evaluation monitoring; evaluation; local government; South Africa
Description The Auditor-General of South Africa reports for the financial years 2012–2013, 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 paint a gloomy picture of local government performance in some provinces. Many municipalities in South Africa are not performing as expected because of a host of problems that include weaknesses in monitoring and evaluation systems. The study preceding this article was qualitative in nature and focused on the Auditor-General’s reports for the 2012– 2013, 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 financial years. Main findings of the study are that municipalities that get clean audits have strong oversight systems and leadership. A further inference is that qualifications of councillors, training, time and remuneration are contributing factors to poor oversight by councillors and political structures. The main recommendations were directed at improving civic education in the nomination and election of councillors, pairing underperforming municipalities with best performing municipalities, improving continuing education for councillors and improving the monitoring of interventions and the transitions after interventions
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2018-01-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Qualitative
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/td.v14i1.409
 
Source The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa; Vol 14, No 1 (2018); 6 pages 2415-2005 1817-4434
 
Language eng
 
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https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/409/654 https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/409/653 https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/409/655 https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/409/647
 
Coverage — post 1994 —
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 David M. Mello https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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