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1.1 Roles and responsibilities of monitoring and evaluation

Position Key responsibilities
Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator
  • Ensure an appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system is in place and is functioning satisfactorily. Periodically review and revise the system so that it is adapted appropriately to changing operating contexts.
  • Ensure relevant and timely M&E information is provided in user-friendly formats to key stakeholders, including beneficiary communities, CARE senior management and donors.
  • Provide training and mentoring for CO staff.
  • Act as a focal point to organise and manage monitoring reviews, evaluations and/or After Action Reviews (AARs).
RRT and RED roster M&E Specialists
  • Provide temporary support to the CO to establish baselines and set up M&E systems suited to the operating context.
  • Provide training and mentoring for CO staff.
  • May participate in a monitoring review, evaluation and/or facilitate an AAR.
Emergency Team Leader/Senior Management Team (SMT)
  • Ensure application of CARE’s Humanitarian Accountability Framework.
  • Ensure adequate resources are allocated in project budgets to cover M&E-related activities, including monitoring reviews, external evaluations and AARs.
Lead Member Quality and Accountability Focal Point
  • Monitor implementation of M&E systems for the emergency response and support technical advice where necessary.
Regional Emergency Coordinator
  • Promote and guide quality in the emergency programme, and ensure critical gaps are identified and addressed.
Crisis Coordination Group
  • Determine whether incident is a Type 2, 3 or 4 emergency, in which case the CO is required to fund and organise an AAR.
  • Agree on the need for an external evaluation and/or CARE monitoring visit(s).
CI Coordinator for Quality and Accountability
  • Provide technical support to COs to help them comply with CARE’s humanitarian benchmarks.
  • Support ‘learning in’ (where lessons learned are applied in CARE’s emergency responses) and ‘learning out’ (where lessons learned from new emergencies are captured and shared beyond the CO).