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M&E CAPACITY-STRENGTHENING APPROACHES AND MEASUREMENT IN AFRICA
Date
2020-04-20
Authors
Dr Masvaure, Steven
Dr Smith, Laila
Dr Kiwekete, Angelita
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
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Publisher
CLEAR-AA
Abstract
Description
The practice of national and organisational capacity-
strengthening for monitoring and evaluation
(M&E) is gaining momentum in the Global
South. However, little is known about the design,
effectiveness, and impact of these M&E capacity-
strengthening initiatives. Adequate M&E
capacity assists government officials, development
managers, civil society organisations, and
funding entities to improve project planning, facilitates
progress, increases impact, and enhances
learning (Segone, 2009). In addition, M&E capacity
can identify what works, what does not work, and
the reasons for each outcome. This report provides
an overview of National Evaluation Capacity
Development (NECD) across selected Anglophone
African countries and provides recommendations
on how to strengthen national evaluation capacities.
The report is based on a study undertaken
by the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and
Results for Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) which
examined M&E systems capacity-strengthening
approaches in Anglophone African countries and
how the effectiveness of these approaches has
been measured.
Keywords
monitoring and evaluation, Evaluation Capacity Assessment, evaluation capacity systems, Clear anglophone Africa