Monitoring and evaluation plays vital roles in enhancing the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of health programs, ensuring they have the maximum positive impact on public health outcomes. It is a crucial component in health programs and interventions, as they help ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.

The County Health Management Team(CHMT) has moved to develop, adopt and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan whose review was previously hampered by limited resources.

In a week-long workshop to generate the department's M&E plan, the team came up with a comprehensive narrative document on M&E activities describing the questions which need to be addressed. The template guide aims to capture both the aspects that work as well as the challenges faced during implementation. This will facilitate review to find alternatives, encourage innovation in order to boost service delivery in the health sector.

Health M&E Officer Limaris Samuel, says the plan further highlights the indicators that need to be measured and how often they will be measured, where the indicators will be collected, baseline assumptions and outlines how the data is to be analyzed and interpreted.

The M&E plan will be a guide of how we gauge our performance as a department to ascertain what we are doing well and how we can strengthen the same, as well as know how we can overcome challenges that we face during implementation. Eventually, this will build strongly on improving departments performance and therefore service delivery to the people of Baringo.

Limaris who called on partners to support the full implementation of the Plan further said the review of the document would be done on annual and bi-annual basis.

The workshop was facilitated by USAID Uongozi wa Afya Thabiti (UAT) Programme in partnership with the County Government of Baringo.