Towards the integrated monitoring and evaluation system IMES: a real power

Within the last decade many projects have been implemented in order to provide technical assistance (TA) to countries which have initiated their transition from centrally planned to market economies (mainly countries of Eastern Europe being previously under the Soviet regime). The “monitoring and evaluation” function (M&E) helps in seeing whether each TA project is being developed as per its design and achieves its objectives by providing management information on the project’s implementation. In this framework, the necessity for the creation of an overall M&E database system emerged, with the main objective to improve not only the management of TA projects but also the design and planning of future TA projects.