The purpose of this department is to improve the availability, quality and dissemination of government performance information for accountability and policy improvement purposes.
The functions are as follows:
- Develop and maintain a framework to support the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of government performance at the national and sub-national levels, in line with the national development goals and objectives;
- Monitor and evaluate government performance at sectoral level (to measure performance of government policies in each sector of the economy), institutional level (to measure performance of government institutions) and program level (to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of public programs);
- Develop and publish the Nigeria Country Report as the primary medium for the dissemination of performance information
- Develop evaluation capacities across government at the federal and state levels to ensure that the quality, results, and impact of programs and expenditure can be measured at reasonable cost;
- Collaborate with MDAs to develop results-focused, key performance indicators and clearly defined performance targets upon which progress will be measured
- Develop the data management system for the National M&E system, including data collection tools, identification of data sources, frequency of data collection and data transmission plan;
Publications and Reports
- Education in Nigeria: Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Impact of SDG4
- Healthy Lives in Nigeria: Evaluation of the Effectivesness and Impact of Sustainable Development Goals(SDG)
- National Moitoring and Evaluation Policy of Nigeria
- 2018 Annual Performance Budget Report
- Budget Implementation and Monitoring Performance and Evaluation 2016 Full year Report/2017 Half Year Report
- 2016 Budget Implementation Monitoring Performance and Evaluation Report 3rd Quarters
- 2013 SURE-P Annual Performance Monitoring Report
- 2013-2014 sure-p projects monitoring & verification report
- NPC 2012 Annual Performance Monitoring Report
- 2011 Mid-Year MDA Scorecard Form
- 2010 Monitoring and Evaluation Report
- Guidelines for Completion of 2011 Mid-Year Scorecard Form for Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)