“Much of the material remains unprocessed, or if processed, unanalyzed, or if analyzed, nit written up, or if written up, not read, or if nor read, nor used or acted upon. Only a miniscule proportion, if any, of the finding affect policy and they are usually a few simple totals.”
Robin Chambers

This component is about using data to create information for decision-making, and is the primary and overriding purpose of M&E systems. If data are used to create useful information that inform decision-making, these decisions can be improved and therefore inform and improve subsequent actions – see Figure 12.1.

Figure 12.1: Data demand and information use is central to the decision making process