Monitoring and Evaluation in the Public Service Governance: A Case Study of Ashanti Bekwai District Assembly Monitoring and Evaluation in the Public Service Governance: A Case Study of Ashanti Bekwai District Assembly Amankona Gyekye EmmanuelMonitoring and Evaluation in the Public Service Governance: A Case Study of Ashanti Bekwai District Assembly Amankona Gyekye EmmanuelMonitoring and Evaluation in the Public Service Governance: A Case Study of Ashanti Bekwai District Assembly

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.