Approach

The main purpose of the PSPPD’s Monitoring and Learning Facility (MLF) is to:

• Develop a cadre of researchers and policy-makers with a deeper understanding of household dynamics and poverty to enable more informed evidence-based policy-making.
• Support learning interventions to improve skills and capacity among policy-makers and researchers so that they can:
  • Produce evidence-based policy;
  • Conceptualise, plan and implement interventions around poverty.
• Together with the Presidency’s Department of Performance M&E (DPME), ensure significant learning around M&E takes place across government to improve its M&E practice, systems and policies.

The Programme achieves this through various tools, including:

• Learning processes and process facilitation;
• Training events such as workshops, conferences, study tours (and engagement), and exchange programmes.

The PSPPD believes that to enable adults to learn and change their behaviour, it is essential to understand their own working environments.
The Programme therefore promotes learning-by-doing and supports existing work through a range of tools that allows it to respond to emerging processes, while at the same time facilitating how these contribute towards evidence-based policy-making.