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In the current climate of scarce public sector resources, there is an increasing need for Government and its agencies to monitor and evaluate it's expenditure on projects, programmes and policies to ensure value for money for the tax payer.

Monitoring involves gathering and interpreting data about the performance of a policy, programme or project after it has been implemented. Evaluation, on the other hand, is an exercise intended to determine whether or not a policy, programme or project is achieving what it was originally meant to achieve in terms of contributing to specific government aims or objectives. The evaluation process will use the data gathered during the monitoring exercise.

MVA's Social and Market Research and Economics teams have considerable experience of carrying out social and economic monitoring and evaluation for a range of public sector organisations, including central and local government as well as government agencies. This has ranged from evaluations of national policies to small infrastructure projects, all designed to determine whether the expenditure represented value for money.