Tag Archives: Africa

Evaluation for Africa – A young evaluator’s wish

November 17, 2016 1
Janvier Ndagijimana
Janvier Ndagijimana
Janvier Ndagijimana is Assistant Coordinator in Design, Monitoring and Evaluation at Search for Common Ground in Bujumbura, Burundi.
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Evaluation is important for our continent. Many things prompted me to take an interest in a career in evaluation. After my university studies, I enjoyed being involved in project and program management. This experience showed me that projects are frequently ... Read more »

Realist Evaluation for Impact Evaluation in South Africa

November 11, 2016 4
Nombeko Mbava
Nombeko Mbava
Nombeko Mbava is a PhD Student at Stellenbosch University with a strong research interest in programme impact evaluation methodologies.
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Monitoring and evaluation of government performance and programmes have become less of a haphazard knee-jerk reaction, a nice-to-have or an afterthought, and more of a deliberate, systematic and planned process. This is primarily because taxpayers are increasingly vocal, demanding that ... Read more »

Evaluation and the forbidden truth – Part 2

August 19, 2016 2
Backson Sibanda
Backson Sibanda
Dr Backson Sibanda is an Independent Evaluation Consultant and CEO of BACTHA CONSULTING.
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Walking the talk Evaluation has become an integral part of programme and project design, implementation and management. This is a great achievement by those “slaving” courageous evaluators. Evaluators have become bolder and more scientific and evidence based in their search ... Read more »

Encouraging Evaluators to have Multiple Perspectives

July 22, 2016 1
Benita Williams
Benita Williams
Benita Williams is the principal consultant at a small evaluation consultancy based in Pretoria, South Africa, a founding board member of SAMEA and a former board member of AfrEA.
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I’ve worked as an evaluation consultant since the start of my professional career, doing the things an evaluation consultant does: Write proposals, do evaluation work and rejoice when the reams of transformed white paper that I produce actually results in ... Read more »

Uses and abuses of Per Diems in Africa: An issue for Evaluators?

July 14, 2016 7
Guy Blaise Nkamleu
Guy Blaise Nkamleu
Dr Guy Blaise Nkamleu is a chief country economist at the African Development Bank, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the African Evaluation Journal (AEJ).
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My new book makes a compelling case on the devastating nature of per diem – i.e., daily allowance – systems in Africa. It supports the view that the per diem allowance system has become perverted and is now working against ... Read more »

The African Peer Review Mechanism: Learning from an Indigenous African Evaluation Tool

May 31, 2016 1
Steven Gruzd
Steven Gruzd
Steven Gruzd is head of the Governance and APRM Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg.
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African countries seem to be forever undergoing assessments and evaluations. Many stem from the governments of international development partners who have poured money into a plethora of projects, programmes and plans, and want to know what has worked and why. ... Read more »