MONITORING AND EVALUATION PRACTICES AND YOUTH PROJECT PERFORMANCE: A CASE OF DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT FUNDED BY UNDP RWANDA

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of monitoring and evaluation practices and youth project performance in Rwanda. It could be a subjective examination that includes cautious perception of a situation. The analyst utilized surveys to gather information, as distant as this study is concerned, the population was comprised of people, staff management and partners of digital mental health funded by UNDP Rwanda focusing on 180 workers. In this way, sample sizes of 180 individuals were considered to answer formulated questions. Universal sampling, as all population was questioned. The sample was made by number the staff management, stakeholders and employees of digital mental health funded by UNDP Rwanda respondents who was involved in interaction with researcher. Research was adopting the questionnaire for collecting primary data and documentation review to collect secondary data.  Pilot study was performed to ensure the validity and reliability of data collection instrument. The data was analyzed trough Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results indicate the value of adjusted r squared was 0.281(28.1%) an indication that there was variation of 28.1% on youth project performance funded by UNDP Rwanda was due to changes in monitoring and evaluation practices at 95% confidence interval. Additionally, this means that factors not studied in this research contributed 71.9% of youth project performance funded by UNDP Rwanda. As indicated in ANOVA Table, the F-test value was 5.571 with significance value of 0.03 at 5% level of significance. Since the p-value obtained was less than 0.05, the F-test was significant hence the conclusion that the regression model was good. The research findings suggest that implementing these strategies and conducting PM&E in Digital Health as one of the Youth Project Funded by UNDP Rwanda and also increasing the number of trainings to the primary beneficiaries, should contribute to increase its performance. Project implementers should involve policy makers at an early stage in the project if policy support is likely to be required to achieve project objectives. This is particularly important when attempting to improve its performance.