[{"bbox": [129, 134, 1100, 222], "category": "Text", "text": "As part of its prerogative of budget implementation and to safeguard the financial interests of the Union, the Commission may participate in the above governance structures set up for governing the implementation of the action."}, {"bbox": [129, 261, 734, 293], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.8 Performance and results monitoring and reporting"}, {"bbox": [129, 303, 1102, 883], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU Delegation will maintain a key role in monitoring and overview of the action and in following up on reporting by the implementing partners. In addition, monitoring, review and evaluation of sector performance in regards to the TEVET sector in Malawi is also carried out by TEVETA. However, this is complicated by lack of reliable and timely data collection in the sector which is one of the challenges that the support to the development of a TEVET Management Information System (TMIS) and a Labour Management Information System (LMIS) (SO 1 - result 1.3) will address. As such this action will benefit from better results monitoring once these systems are operationalised. The programme will also conduct a baseline and an endline survey at the beginning and end of the programme to establish success of the intervention in line with the logframe. This will be funded under the overall programme's 'evaluations' budget line. Several enterprise level surveys will also be conducted from the specific project's monitoring and evaluation systems to assess progress towards achievement of results using the monitoring and evaluation budgetlines of the respective contracts under the decision. Additionally, the programme monitoring and reporting will benefit from the multidonor funded Malawi 2019 FinScope MSME survey⁸. EU Delegation will ensure that the monitoring of the programme is be based on the logframe, and that there is coordination of the evidence collected among the different components and actors. This will be achieved through the Project Steering Committees and the joint Strategic Steering Committee meetings. The EU Delegation will also ensure that the data collected through monitoring over the duration of the programme is clearly linked with the final evaluation of the programme."}, {"bbox": [129, 894, 1102, 1124], "category": "Text", "text": "The day-to-day technical and financial monitoring of the implementation of this action will be a continuous process and part of the implementing partner's responsibilities. To this aim, implementing partners shall establish a permanent internal, technical and financial monitoring system for the action and elaborate regular progress reports (not less than annual) and final reports. Every report shall provide an accurate account of implementation of the action, difficulties encountered, changes introduced, as well as the degree of achievement of its results (outputs and direct outcomes) as measured by corresponding indicators, using as reference the logframe matrix. SDGs indicators should be taken into account."}, {"bbox": [129, 1137, 1102, 1227], "category": "Text", "text": "The report shall be laid out in such a way as to allow monitoring of the means envisaged and employed and of the budget details for the action. The final report, narrative and financial, will cover the entire period of the action implementation."}, {"bbox": [129, 1238, 1102, 1355], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission may undertake additional project monitoring visits both through its own staff and through independent consultants recruited directly by the Commission for independent monitoring reviews (or recruited by the responsible agent contracted by the Commission for implementing such reviews)."}, {"bbox": [129, 1446, 1102, 1594], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁸ The global objective of the Malawi FinScope MSME Survey is to assess the nature and scope of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Malawi and to identify the binding constraints to MSMEs' development and growth with a focus on access to finance, infrastructure, business development services and technology and propose financial assistance and policy to support small scale enterprises. The previous fiscope survey was done in 2012, and it is expected that another survey will be done in concurrence with the end of implementation of this programme in approximately 7 years' time."}, {"bbox": [601, 1665, 629, 1691], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "23"}]