Good Practices for Benchmarking, Monitoring and Evaluation

Chapter 3 of the Good Practice Papers on Strengthening Procurement Capacities in Development Countries - Good Practices for Benchmarking, Monitoring and Evaluation - contains a set of good practices and tools for measuring procurement quality against agreed standards and reliably monitoring ongoing performance at various levels.

There are three tools:

• (i) a baseline indicators mechanism to assess the strengths and weaknesses of national procurement systems against generally recognised international standards;
• (ii) a set of monitoring and reporting tools to measure and manage ongoing performance at the national level and;
• (iii) an assessment tool to evaluate performance at the procuring entity level.

When these tools are fully operational, they will facilitate the process used for assessing national systems, and make it easier for agreement to be reached on the results. In addition they will make it possible for governments to monitor the ongoing performance of their systems both at the national level and the procuring entity level.