Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Enhanced Integrated Framework ...

• Increasingly not only measuring inputsand processes, but outcomes, performanceand development and poverty impacts(positive and negative);• Strengthening the management of knowledgeand information access around theM&E system;• Increasingly, over the course of the ANDS,seeking to strengthen linkages between theM&E system and the provincial planningprocess;• Maintaining transparency and accountabilityand encouraging support from NGOs,the Central Statistics Office and citizens inthe provision of data and analysis of findings;• Building the core institutional capacitiesneeded to sustain M&E processes, bothwithin the CMRS, as well as the CSO,NRVA and line ministry systems;• Setting service delivery benchmarks willutilize accepted international specific,measurable, achievable, realistic and timelyoutcome indicators for poverty measurement;and,• Integrating the M&E system across the entirenational budget cycle, to support thesetting of multi-annual and annual performancetargets.INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTUREThe institutional structure for monitoring willinclude a number of government, donor andnon-government intuitions, however; theJCMB, line ministries and the CSO will play themost important roles.The Role of the ANDS OversightCommitteeThe OSC will remain the key high-level governmentbody coordinating and monitoring theimplementation of the ANDS. It will approvebi-annual and annual progress on ANDS implementationreports as well as the reportsprepared for the Cabinet and the JCMB. TheOSC makes up the Government part of theJCMB.The role of the JCMBThe JCMB is the strategic level coordinationmechanism between the Governmentand the international community. It willfocus on resolving the strategic problemsarising from the implementation, coordinationand monitoring not only of the AfghanistanCompact but also the entireANDS. Co-chaired by the Governmentand the United Nations it will provide (i)high level oversight, ensuring an integratedapproach to delivery of the Compactand ANDS; (ii) directions to addressany obstacles or bottlenecks surroundingimplementation, coordination and monitoringof the ANDS; and (iii) report on theimplementation of the Afghanistan Compactand ANDS to the President, NationalAssembly, the UN Secretary General, theinternational community and the public.The Role of the JCMB SecretariatThe JCMB secretariat will provide policy andstrategy analysis/assessment, monitoring andevaluation reports to JCMB on the overall implementationof ANDS and Afghanistan CompactBenchmarks as well as supporting thework of the standing committees. It willstrengthen its capacity to provide independentanalysis to enhance the high leveloversight and problem solving role of theJCMB. The capacity of the JCMB Secretariatmust be significantly strengthened toperform these tasks.The role of the Central Monitoringand Reporting System (CMRS)The CMRS will be developed within the JCMBSecretariat and Ministry of Economy as thecentral machinery of government to supportthe monitoring and reporting process. Alongsidethe CSO, it will provide the central hub forall national monitoring as an apex monitoringbody, with a particular focus on monitoringand evaluating the impact of the Compact andthe ANDS. It will not function in isolation butwill bring together existing information fromthe CSO, consumer price indices, the NRVA,Afghanistan Financial Monitoring InformationSystem, Afghanistan Country Stability Picture178Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)