eVALUation Matters: Building supply and demand for evaluation in Africa
Date
2018
Authors
CLEAR-AA
IDEV (Independent Development Evaluation African Development Bank)
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IDEV
Abstract
Evaluation plays a critical role in the effective implementation of
good governance structures in Africa, in promoting accountability,
learning, development effectiveness, and sustained and rapid
economic growth.
The lack of an evaluation culture hinders good governance based
on evidence-informed decision-making. But creating an evaluation
culture requires more than enacting a policy or even having
an evaluation unit - there must be buy-in from government
ministries and agencies, to parliaments, to the grassroots level.
There must be a steady supply of high quality evaluations, and
the demand for these evaluations in order to ensure their use.
When decision-makers want to use evidence from monitoring
and evaluation (M&E) systems to assist them in making choices,
then there can be said to be a demand for M&E. On the supply
side, when there is sufficient national capacity to supply M&E
personnel / practitioners and information, and those in research
and academia are improving on M&E methodologies, the same
can be said of adequate national M&E supply.
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Evaluation matters, Building supply and demand for evaluation in Africa