MCA-N's M&E directorate is also working to support quality data and M&E capacity among our implementing partners and other stakeholders.

Ensuring that all data collected from implementers, surveys, government agencies or other sources is reliable, accurate, and consistent is critical in order to use the data for decision-making, drawing conclusions about programme outcomes and impacts, and conducting final evaluations of activities. In that respect, MCA-N has hired a Data Quality Review (DQR) Consultant that will conduct regular data quality reviews on all data, including ex-ante and ex-post reviews of all surveys and all indicators in the monitoring component. The DQR team, in collaboration with MCA-N, will come up with recommendations to improve data quality based on their findings, and will train staff involved in data collection.

In addition, MCA-N provides other technical support to our implementing partners and other stakeholders in their data collection activities. For example, MCA-N is funding the compilation and reporting of arrival statistics to enable the timely reporting of such data while building capacity at the same time. MCA-N will continue to seek opportunities to support our partners on the basis of expressed need as well as exercises such as the data quality reviews.

Related documents:

• Government Data Quality Review Report
• Government Data Quality Review Report Addendum