## Chapter 5 

## 5.0 Monitoring, follow-up, review and reporting on progress toward the implementation of the 2030 Agenda 

This chapter presents, interprets and discusses findings pertaining to the mechanisms established to monitor, follow up, review and report on the progress towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. The issues highlighted include among others; regular and inclusive reviews, National Results Framework and availability of disaggregated data. 

## 5.1 National Results Framework 

It is expected that all UN member states put in place national results frameworks with targets and indicators, as well as effective monitoring systems to provide timely and high quality information for policy-making and resource allocation to implement the SDGs. These frameworks will complement the set of global indicators used to follow up and review the progress on goals and targets 9 . 

From the interviews with various stakeholders including academia, District Councils management and representatives from the Non-Governmental Organisations, the MFED had not put in place an integrated and effective monitoring, evaluation, reporting and accountability system that considers both national and local contexts. There were no mechanisms or systems set by the MFED to integrate monitoring, follow-up and reporting into actions of all parts of the government and other stakeholders. Thus, the MFED had not fully conducted regular and inclusive reviews of progress at sub-national, national, regional and global levels. For instance, despite having participated in the 2017 Voluntary National Review (VNR), there was no documentary evidence that sub national (Districts) reviews and reports had been undertaken to inform the VNR. 

This anomaly was due to lack of a National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework 

