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Abstract
Worldwide, strategic urban planning is found in very different contexts and planning
schemes, where it is always a tool strongly linked to enhancing urban management. A key
component in the strategic urban planning process is the monitoring and evaluation.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is widely considered to be a powerful public
management tool that can be used to improve the way goverrunents and organizations
achieve results. The purpose of this tool is to provide feedback on the performance of
policy, programs and projects.
It is expected that such evaluation and monitoring will play more important roles in the
future and lead to improvement in urban planning procedures and management, rendering
governments to be accountable to their citizens for transparent results. Goverrunents are
thus devoting substantial efforts to strengthen their M&E systems and capacities to
improve their performance and to assume a measurable level of programming and policy
effectiveness and efficiency.
Egypt is currently in the process of implementing an M&E system in urban planning
projects to keep track of plans, gauge their performance at various stages of
implementation, ensure delivery of quality service to the community and provide feedback
to planners for the future. The General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP) is the
central authority responsible for preparing urban plans and implementation mechanisms in
Egypt. However, both GOPP and the local authorities have limited experiences and
capacities to undertake an M&E process. This is due to decades of practices focused on
plan preparation with less attention towards implementation, follow-up and evaluation of
results.
The aim of the research is to develop a framework of Monitoring & Evaluation System
to be piloted in the different levels of strategic plans in Egypt, which includes in general
the process proposed for testing indicators at the various levels; the methodologies for data
collection in relation to the indicators, and the management and feedback processes of data
collected in future planning.
The implementation of a new M&E system keep track of the urban strategic plans and
provide feedback to planners for the future, in order to improve the urban planning process,
to ameliorate quality of services provided to local communities and to enhance
participation oflocal communities in decision-making.