Regulatory framework, basis for understanding the Social Policy Monitoring and Evaluation System in the State of Mexico through the Social Policy Research and Evaluation Council

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Abstract: Monitoring and Evaluation Systems (M&E Systems) can be understood through the study of the constituent elements that comprise them, which, based on Maldonado et al. (2015), are at least the following 3: i) the laws or norms that regulate it; ii) agents with competencies that fulfill various functions and iii) interactions that are generated between the agents from legal mandates, where it is important to emphasize the usefulness of the existence of formal rules to define the limits and incentives in the fulfillment of the objectives set (Ríos, 2013; Feinstein, 2015). Mexico is considered one of the countries in the Latin American region, along with Colombia, Chile and Brazil, as benchmarks in evaluation due to the existing regulatory framework (constitutive element i) laws or norms that regulate the M&E System) and the process by which it has been legitimized so that evaluation is a constant, continuous and rigorous practice (Maldonado &. Pérez, 2017).