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Government of Karnataka formulated an Evaluation Policy during the year 2000 vide No.IFS 42 EVF (1) 1999 Bangalore dated 17th November 2000. As per policy all schemes (PLAN) with more than Rs. 1 crore outlay were required to be evaluated at least once in 5 years by all the government departments, corporations, boards, local bodies and other publicly funded entities and 1% of the total outlay of a project/scheme, with an upper limit of Rs. 5 lakhs, is to be kept for evaluation purpose. It is mandatory for a scheme/project to continue beyond plan period to be justified by evaluation. Initially the Evaluation Policy was to be implemented by the Departmental Evaluation Committee (DEC) and State Evaluation Co-ordination Committee (SECC).

  

First of its kind in the country, Karnataka Monitoring and Evaluation Authority (KMEA) was set up vide Government Order No. PD/8/EVN (2) dated: 11.07.2011 for the purpose. KMEA is a society registered in September, 2011 under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 vide No. DRB-C/SOR/140/2011-12 dated19.09.2011The State Government provides budget grants to facilitate the functioning of KMEA. It is an ISO 9001:2015 certified body. KMEA is member of 3ie - an international organisation. KMEA provides technical guidance to all the Departments and Institutions an evaluation works taken by them. In addition KMEA undertakes thematic/conceptual evaluations on key issues with its own resources and provides the feed back to the State Government.

 

The business of the KMEA is seen by the following bodies:

 

1. The General Body: Chaired by Additional Chief Secretary & Development Commissioner, Government of Karnataka

2. The Governing Body: Presided by Additional Chief Secretary to Government / Principal Secretary, Planning, Programme Monitoring & Statistics Department

3. Head of KMEA: Chief Evaluation Officer

4. Technical Committee: Chaired by Additional Chief Secretary to Government / Principal Secretary, Planning, Programme Monitoring & Statistics Department for approval of TOR, Inception reports and Draft Evaluation reports

5. Others - Empanelment committee , Tender CommitteeSampling Committee etc

 

All evaluations, irrespective of their nature, are entrusted to Independent External Evaluators. Process in brief is as below:

 

    1. TOR is prepared in consultation with the concerned department,.

    2. TOR is approved by Technical Committee and is followed by tender process

    3. Work of Evaluation studies is outsourced to Expert Consultant Organisations

    4. ECOs are selected through tendering process as per KTPP

    5. Tenders are called under LCS and QCBS methods

    6. Selected ECO first submit Work plan/ Inception report to conduct study

    7. IR is Approved by Technical Committee and is followed by Draft Evaluation Report

    8. DER is Approved by Technical Committee

    9. DERs are assessed by Empaneled Independent assessor also

  10. Approved final evaluation reports are translated into Kannada

  11. Reports are sent to Concerned Department, ATR is requested

  12. All reports are Uploaded on Karnataka Monitoring and Evaluation Authority website

  13. All the works of KMEA are placed before Governing body and General body

 

Future Plans of KMEA includes

1. Increasing Evaluation studies per year and improving their Quality

2. Increasing Expert base - Empaneled Consultant Organizations, and Independent assessor.

3. Emphasising on Action Taken reports on Evaluation studies from line departments

4. Capacity building

5. Expending wings beyond the State of Karnataka.

 

Last Updated: 17-05-2023 12:46 PM Updated By: Admin


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