Instrumento de Monitoreo Programa ART

The Paris Declaration and the Accra Action Plan have pushed the cooperation of the national States to change its guiding principles, in order promote alignment, coordination and harmonization of their projects and share responsibility with the other stakeholders. Notwithstanding the attention for the local actors and, more generally, for the decentralised cooperation is still low. This article aims at proposing an instrument of monitoring and evaluation of decentralised projects in a multi-bilateral approach, including the local dimension in the framework of the Paris and Accra principles. Looking at the main contributions on monitoring and evaluation, the paper applies an innovative methodology to an empirical case – the UNDP programme ART (Articulation of Territorial Networks) – and proposes monitoring tools for the assessment of the contribution, empowerment and advance of the implementation of the Paris and Accra guiding principles into development projects at the local level, in which multilateral and bilateral actors are both active. The article reveals that three dimensions of analysis are needed: the design of the framework programme, the inclusion of the framework principles into the Country programmes and the level of advance of the implementation of these principles on the field.