REGIONAL • INDIC ATIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PL AN Detailing the constraints, best practices and lessons regional level through an integrated monitoring and learnt over the period and providing action-oriented evaluation system recommendations; • • • • monitoring at the national level with regular feedback facilitators and those accountable for various respon- to the Secretariat • Stakeholders Forum: review and input to monitoring Review of the SADC Vision and Mission in the light of progress reports and evaluation reports before the prevailing priorities of the region; ICM, Council and Summit consider them. The forum Review of strategies and targets against outcomes, includes members from the private sector, CSOs, explaining the variances; Women groups and Cooperating Partners. Evaluation of the proposed interventions against • External Evaluator: production of a report, which assesses the implementation process, the outputs as achievements; • SADC National Committees: coordination and Reviewing the roles played by the various players, sibilities in the implementation of the plan; • 9 1 against the set targets and the overall impact of the Evaluation of the entire RISDP in relation to the RISDP. current priorities of the region. In order to ensure effective evaluation of the RISDP, two sets of information will form the basis for evaluation: • Targets as outlined in the Plan; and • Indicators of development of the region in each threeyear circle. Evaluation will have to be undertaken at the planning 7.5 STRATEGIES • evaluation capacity at regional and national levels; • and progress in protocol implementation. Specific reports on internal monitoring and evaluation will be kept at the programme level, as defined Ensuring the inclusiveness of the monitoring and evaluation process and acceptance of the results of and programme implementation levels and should assess achievements on a set of global indicators of integration Developing and strengthening a monitoring and review by all stakeholders; • Developing aggregate indicators for monitoring and evaluation which take into account soft issues of regional integration and conferring credibility to such indicators; at each three-year circle. This will be coordinated at the Secretariat and made available to the evaluation team. TARGETS • Development of the monitoring and evaluation 7.4 SUMMARY OF ROLES • Summit, Council and ICM: continuous oversight using progress reports from the Secretariat • Secretariat: coordination and monitoring at the guidelines for the implementation of the RISDP by 2004. • Development of aggregate indicators for regional integration in all priority intervention areas.