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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Building a sound planning system -- Improving the strategic plan's methodology -- Monitoring the strategic plan to promote its delivery -- Creating a sound evaluation system of the strategic plan -- Promoting evidence-informed policy making in Nuevo León -- Assessment and Recommendations -- Toward a sound institutional system for planning, monitoring and evaluation -- Identifying clear policy priorities and setting pathways for implementation -- Monitoring the Strategic Plan as a tool for results Creating capacities for the evaluation of the Plan -- Promoting evidence-informed policy-making in Nuevo León -- 1 Toward a Sound Institutional System for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Nuevo León -- Introduction -- A robust M&E system is key to ensuring effective planning -- Nuevo León's M&E system ranks just above average in comparison with other Mexican states -- Building a sound long-term planning system in Nuevo León -- The Nuevo León Council reflects a whole-of-society effort towards the long term development of the state The council offers an inclusive platform to reflect on key policy initiatives -- The overall planning system in Nuevo León -- A complex interaction between the council and the state public administration -- Responsibilities for strategic planning are blurred between the Executive Office of the Governor and council -- The centre of government has limited capacities for strategic planning, coordination and monitoring in Nuevo Leon -- Recommendations -- References -- 2 The Strategic Plan's Methodology and Structure: Identifying Clear and Sound Policy Priorities for Nuevo León -- Introduction The Strategic Plan reflects a high-level commitment to long-term policies in Nuevo León -- Developing a robust planning methodology in Nuevo León -- The problem analysis phase did not build on lessons learned from previous reforms -- The prioritisation process omitted factors such as sequencing and trade-off between opportunity areas -- Objective setting did not rely on a clear logic model and some objectives are difficult to measure or to understand -- Simplifying the Plan's structure -- The Plan has been broken down into too many layers -- Opportunity areas have been insufficiently prioritised The coherence between thematic areas can be improved -- Planning coherence: aligning policy priorities and identifying pathways for their implementation -- There are some inconsistencies in aligning the methodological framework of the Strategic Plan with the SDGs -- There is no clear methodological framework for articulating the elements of the Strategic Plan with the elements of the State Development Plan (SDP) -- The Strategic Plan and the State Development Plan can be articulated with an action plan -- A clear need to link strategic planning with budgeting --…”

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