CESAR was contracted to draft a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF) Survival and Development (CSD) programme, which is conducted by ten implementing partners across four provinces in South Africa. CESAR conducted a desktop literature review, developed the programme theory of change and logic model; created 60 indicators for monitoring and evaluating the programme and designed the entire M&E system and data collection tools. Further to completing the design of the M&E framework, the NMCF extended CESAR’s contract to digitalise the programme’s paper-based M&E mechanisms. This allows for electronic data collection, management, and timely reporting of programme data from various sources with an interactive dashboard displaying summary data on programme indicators.