On May 28, 2019, during the Roundtable Discussions held onHealth and related issues, the Ministry of Health of Mongolia answered onquestion related on maternal, child and adolescenthealth, as well as HIV/AIDS and other diseases in Mongolia. 

The questionstated as what mechanisms can be put in place to monitor the implementation and impactof legislation and policies addressing maternal, child and adolescent health,as well as HIV/AIDS and other diseases?

The Government of Mongolia hasadoptedand successfully implemented 16 national programs, suchas "Mother, child, reproductive health", "Communicable Disease Combat andPrevention", "Non-CommunicableDisease Combat and Prevention", "Environmental Health" and “WholeLiver-Mongolia”. 

Also, the "State Policyon Health" has been implemented. To adopt these policy documents and national programs:

-       Implementation Action Plan

-       Progress or performance evaluation criteria, final outcome targets along with theindicators are adopted and implemented.

-       Mid-term and final evaluation of national programs are done.

-       Mid-term monitoring and evaluation is useful for developinginformation on how the policy documents are being implemented and making plansfor improvement over the remainder of the program.

Procedures for conducting monitoring and evaluation of policy documents are done in accordance with the Law on Planning Development Policy ofMongolia and the "General Order for Monitoringand Evaluation of Implementation of Policy Documents and Administration of Activities of GovernmentOrganizations" approved by Government Resolution No. 89 of 2017 . 

For example, the Ministry of Health conducts monitoring and evaluationtwice a year on theimplementation of laws and regulations. Evaluation results are sent to theCabinet Secretariat. 

In accordance with this resolution, the annual documentary monitoring,evaluation and evaluation of the State Policy, which is a policy document, willbe conducted every two years and the external evaluation will be conducted every four years. Accordingly,monitoring and evaluation is done annually. 

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Aimag and Capital City Health Departmentsand Subsidiaries in accordance with "General Regulations for Monitoringand Evaluation of Health Organizations" approved by the Minister of Healthin 2017. The mother and child, adolescents, reproductive health, HIV / STI andother disease policies and enforcement of laws and regulations. 

It is also important to intensify activities aimed to meet criteria of World SustainableDevelopment Goals 2030 and theSustainable Development Concepts ofMongolia-2030.