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OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES

• The MEL Director will oversee the monitoring and evaluation and learning system for reporting progress and ensuring availability and use of quality data for adaptive management and maintain reporting procedures and guidelines in compliance with USAID systems.

• The MEL Director will be expected to develop a strong monitoring and evaluation and learning system and plan consistent with the USAID results framework, coordinate the collection and use of data including conducting field visits for data validation, monitor the quality of data sets, contribute to the adaptive management of the program, oversee the development, maintenance and use of the project technical information management system, and document project performance against established outputs and indicators.

• The MEL Director will also be responsible for building the capacity of the Ministry of Health (MOH) counterparts and other stakeholders in the collection, utilization, and dissemination of data as well as ensuring that all monitoring and data collection activities are harmonized, and information is shared.

• The MEL Director will also assist the MOH to monitor programs and assess the robustness of implementing organizations’ data collection and MEL mechanisms. Furthermore, the MEL Director will be responsible for overseeing and contributing to any internal program evaluations, baseline/midline/endline assessments, and research activities associated with the learning agenda.

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITY

• Design and implement the project’s MEL system, including the development of indicators, setting baseline and targets, monitoring project progress, ensuring timely data collection and data use, contributing to quarterly and annual reports.

• Provide MEL tools and strategies and provide monitoring data to strategically inform the decisions on project performance and future direction to the project, for enhanced adaptive management.

• Oversee the development, maintenance and use of the project technical information management system, and its interoperability with the national health information management system.

• Provide regularly updated reports on the status of implementation against the project goals and objectives to the Chief of Party, Technical Director, USAID and other program managers as required.

• Collaborate with the project team in identifying project activities, processes and/or outcomes that are worthy of documentation and design a system for capturing lessons learned and best practices.