Disclaimer Monitoring and Evaluation: Overview While IBTCI is well-established and widely known as a premier firm in the provision of services related to accounting reform, financial sector development, and private sector development, IBTCI is emerging as a leader in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation programs and systems. We undertake regular performance monitoring and reporting of programs, as well as, periodic review of specific activities under different programs/projects and overall evaluation of their impact. IBTCI has monitored and evaluated programs in a wide range of areas, including agriculture, banking/finance, economic growth, education, environment, gender, health, infrastructure, and private sector development. In this process, the IBTCI staff uses a number of tools, such as needs assessment, evaluation assessments, institutional analyses, process evaluations, economic and cost analyses, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses, and impact assessments. We, also, use a number of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including research design, sampling, weighting and estimation, experimental designs, longitudinal analysis, rapid appraisal, and ethnography. In particular, we review and evaluate activities using the following measures: impact, effectiveness, efficiency, replicability, scalability and sustainability. Measures and evaluations carried out by IBTCI include cross-cutting issues such as gender, conflict management, private and voluntary partnership, transition initiatives, and information technology. We have designed management information systems (MIS) for the enterprise sector, developed automated trading for capital markets systems, developed payment systems and integrated the computer systems of banks and financial institutions, and developed the technical IT skills of government officials. IBTCI has implemented these projects in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and the Middle East.