UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

Faculty: Commerce
Department of Business Studies
Management Development Unit (MDU)
Executive Certificate in Programme & Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Module: Principles of Monitoring and Evaluation

Examiner: Dr N. Muzondo

Date of Examination : 22 January 2020

Duration : 3 Hours
Time : 0900 – 1200 Hours

INSTRUCTIONS:
 This paper is comprised of … 5.....Questions.
 Answer question …One(1)…. and any other Two(2) questions
 This question paper comprises… 2..printed pages

NB: DO NOT TURN OVER THE QUESTION PAPER OR COMMENCE WRITING

UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
QUESTION 1 (COMPULSORY)
Mupfuti Project, a men’s organisation the purpose of which is to eradicate gender-based violence
especially violence against women and girls, has recently head-hunted and hired you as its
executive director. Upon joining the organisation you discover that it hardly has funds to
implement its activities. If anything, Mupfuti will shut down in the next nine months.

Task
Write a two-year funding project proposal for the organisation to be submitted to the South
African Development Aid (SADA, an emerging international development aid agency of the
South African government. SADA has recently asked for funding proposals from 16 non-
governmental organisaions, Mupfuti Project being one of them.

In their call for proposals, which is on their webpage, SADA categorically states that: “As you
write the project proposals, please remember that your organisation will not be necessarily
funded because we have requested you to submit a proposal. We will only fund five
organisations with the best proposals in terms of the expected ingredients. (40 marks)

QUESTION 2
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officers need not have any other skills but statistical capacity.
Discuss. (15 marks)

QUESTION 3
‘Implementation-focused monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and results-based M&E are just the
same.’ Evaluate this statement. (15 marks)

QUESTION 4
Programme managers have to answer a number of key questions in their programme
management roles. Two of those questions are: “How do we get there? How do we know we
have arrived?”

What the hell should these questions mean to programme monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
officers? Why are they important to M&E?

QUESTION 5
The United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are in its 2030 Agenda,
are now well known in the development sector. The UN is running a competition for trainee
monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officers in your country who it expects to develop a
Sustainable Development Index (SDI), which will help member countries to assess their progress
towards achieving the SDGs. Four prizes will be won in the competition for the best
submissions—US$1500 (Fourth Prize), US$3500 (Third Price), US$5000 (Second Prize), and a
scholarship covering tuition and stipend to study an MSc International Development at United
Nations University, Japan (First Prize).

Basing on only four SDGs of your choice, define at least four indicators you think will best
measure each of your selected SDGs—and that will be your index. (15 marks)
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