ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and approaches currently employs in United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), including strategic frameworks as well as operational/tactical level tools. It identifies the comparative advantages of M&E framework vis-a-vis current orthodoxy. It also brings empirical insights and examples to bear on the purported strengths of the framework and emphasises a number of ways in which it has the potential to improve on current practice. In order to assess the comparative advantages of the proposed framework, it is first necessary to identify the M&E tools that are currently employed in UNMIL. The field research highlighted a range of strengths, comparative advantages and potentialities relating to the framework's overall design, field-level M&E process and its focus on facilitating organisational learning. A recurrent criticism of M&E in UNMIL concerned the extent to which analyses were situated in the specific operating co.
