Investigating the current performance monitoring and evaluation tool in the public administration of Rwanda:Case study: Nyarugenge District

Abstract

Decision-makers use evidence from performance evaluation to assist them in taking effective and quick solutions to accelerate development, this practice is coupled with external expertise and good practices. This study seeks to investigate the current performance monitoring and evaluation tool in Nyarugenge District. The performance contract also called imihigo are agreements signed between the District’s mayors and the president of the Republic of Rwanda for the former to reach certain targets on socio-economic development indicators. The perspective of this research was to interpret the current imihigo reporting and monitoring status and identify the key challenges which prevent an effective reporting and monitoring. The review of previous literatures and interviews was done with different stakeholders of imihigo to collect data. The result demonstrate that Nyarugenge District actually use a purely manual system to plan, monitor and report the imihigo, a number of gaps caused mainly by the absence of an Information System for imihigo Performance management has been identified . We recommend the Rwandan local government to put in place an information management system for imihigo to save time, improve the quality of imihigo end result.