This book brings together the vision, lessons learned and good practices from twenty-one stakeholders on how country-led monitoring and evaluation systems can enhance evidence-based policy making. This book from UNICEF provides a number of chapters considering why country-led monitoring and evaluation systems are important and some best practice examples of how they have been used. Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems is an emergent topic with a knowledge base thatis slowing growing. Developing country-led monitoring and evaluation systems take time – just as it has in developed countries. There are, however, additional constraints on building such systems in developing countries. This publication suggests that country-led monitoring and evaluationsystems may enhance evidence-based policy making by ensuring that national monitoring and evaluation systems are owned and ledby the concerned countries. This publication is a practical tool to help managers,statisticians and media-relation officers to use text, tables,graphics and other information to bring statistics to life using effectivewriting techniques.