Formative Evaluation of UNICEF’s Monitoring Results for Equity System (MoRES), Case Study: Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Monitoring Results for Equity System (MoRES) was developed to support UNICEF’s refocus on equity (launched in 2010) with the specific intent to accelerate progress in reaching the world’s most deprived children. UNICEF is currently advancing towards mainstreaming MoRES at a global level and in support of this ambition has commissioned an independent evaluation to provide validation and learning on the conceptual, technical and practical viabil- ity of MoRES as an approach. The evaluation is deploying two related analytical approaches: a theory based approach and a case study based approach. The theory based approach provides a basis for framing and analysing the MoRES experience. The case study approach comple- ments this by recording what has happened in relation to MoRES in selected countries and in this way helps test and validate the theory of change (ToC) associated with MoRES.

The objective of the evaluation is to support continuing efforts across UNICEF to articulate, develop and mainstream the MoRES approach by learning from experience. The information from the case studies will feed into the main evaluation report.Two important characteristics of the case study component of the evaluation are: each case study has been selected because of the learning opportunity offered to the evalu- ation; the approach to each study is focused on recording experiences rather than measuring or assessing performance.