Abstract:
The importance of monitoring and evaluation is increasingly being realized as its
application has grown beyond the initial conceptions in ensuring project quality.
Governments all over the world have adopted monitoring and evaluation procedures in
ensuring projects’ quality in delivering infrastructure projects and services to their
citizens. As a result, monitoring and evaluation has been a tool for good corporate
governance. This study investigates how monitoring and evaluation can be used to
improve corporate governance in the Bekwai Municipal Assembly using the
Department of Parks and Gardens as the case study. The study used both quantitative
and qualitative research methods in the collection and analysis of the data. Among other
measures used, regression analysis was used to the quantitative variables in
understating how monitoring and evaluation can help improve governance in the
Department of Parks and Gardens in Bekwai. Findings suggest that corporate good
governance can be promoted through effective implementation of monitoring and
evaluation frameworks. However, some workers of social welfare argue that
monitoring and evaluations are bureaucratic frameworks that will overwhelm the
system of governance instead of promoting accountability and transparency. It was
revealed that social annual targets at the Department of Parks and Gardens is not always
achieved. This drew the people’s attention to the role of monitoring and evaluation in
promoting good corporate governance. Monitoring and evaluation promotes
participation of the general citizenry in the development process. The study therefore
revealed that monitoring and evaluation frameworks be promoted in Department of
Parks and Gardens. Citizen participation should be encouraged as it helps to promote.
