Acknowledgments The authors thank Masauso Nzima (Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS) for his partnership in building M&E systems and co-creating the “11 component concept” (which formed the basis of the 12 Components M&E framework); Wendy Heard (World Bank consultant), John Chipeta (Malawi National AIDS Commission), Verne Kemerer (MEASURE Evaluation), Julie Tumbo (World Bank consultant), Peter Badcock-Walters and Donald Whitson (World Bank consultant), who peer reviewed the 12-component resource library; David Wilson (The World Bank) for his ideas on succinctness and keeping it client-focused; Robert Oelrichs (The World Bank ) for advice on some of the chapters; members of the East and Southern Africa M&E curriculum development team for their insights [Win Brown (United States Agency for International Development), Claude Cheta (International HIV/AIDS Alliance), James Guwani (Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS), Michiko Tajima (Japan International Cooperation Agency), Christa vd Bergh (John Snow International consultant)]; Andy Beke (University of Pretoria), Yasuo Sumita (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and Hitesh Hurckchand (John Snow International)] for sharing ideas about M&E capacity building and helping to keep the passion going; participants in a workshop in Tanzania in March 2009 for their constructive and practical feedback as users; Rosalia RodriguezGarcia (The World Bank) for sharing her thinking about strategic planning; Sue Bawale (World Bank consultant) for her skill with editing; Karien Ingenkamp (World Bank consultant) for the graphics; Carmen Bibby for the final MS Word formatting; Theo Hawkins (World Bank consultant) for typesetting and copyediting; Ronnie Miller (World Bank consultant) for the final proofreading of the contents, and Joy de Beyer (The World Bank) for her excellent technical edits, eye for details, and introducing us to Tufte’s work. We also would like to thank Laura Rawlings and Benjamin Loevinsohn (The World Bank) for the time they took to review and comment on the final manuscript. Special and heartfelt thanks go to all the National AIDS Coordinating Authorities with which The World Bank’s Global HIV/AIDS Program has worked over the years, learning together and sharing ideas about how to build functioning M&E systems.
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