PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION PRACTICE IN EXPANDED PROGRAM FOR IMMUNIZATION PROJECT: THE CASE OF PUBLIC HEALTH CENTERS, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Monitoring and Evaluation practices are very essential to deliver the project/program based on the interest of all stakeholders. It is also important for effective and efficient implementation of the program. Even if monitoring and evaluation is important, it is not known how and to what extent public health centers are practicing monitoring and evaluation in the context of Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) program of and the challenges. This research, thus, is in the very rationale of assessing the practice and challenges associated with M&E practices of EPI program in public health center with a purpose of filling this gap. Following a review of the literatures related to the problem understudy, a survey questioner was developed and distributed to 24 public health centers. Finally, 101 respondents filled in and returned the questioner properly and the target population of the study was staffs of the selected public health centers. This research employed simple random sampling technique for acquisition of quantitative data. SPSS version 20 was applied for processing and analysis purpose. All the six challenges were found related to M&E practice by health staffs. Another important finding was that the M&E practice of the study organization was more or less good. However supportive supervision, using the guideline properly, is performed in moderately appropriate way to M&E practice. Given the finding, M&E inputs should be well planned for practicing according to the guideline.