The African M&E Hub

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The Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results in Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) is one of the six regional centers housed in academic institutions across the globe. We work to improve the way in which monitoring and evaluation is done in the Anglophone Africa region. We help clients and governments build capacity at national, regional, and local levels to measure development progress and outcomes, strengthen evidence-based policy-making, and increase government accountability and transparency.

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    CLEAR-AA 2023 Annual Report
    (CLEAR-AA, 2024-11-01) CLEAR-AA
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    African Parliaments: Systems of Evidence in Practice (vol 2)
    (Sun Press, 2022-01-20) CLEAR-AA
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    Evaluation Landscape in Africa
    (Sun Press, 2021-06-01) CLEAR-AA
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    Using Evidence in Policy and Practice
    (Routledge, 2021-08-01) CLEAR-AA
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    Equitable Evaluation Voices from the Global South
    (AOSIS, 2023-01-10) CLEAR-AA
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    IPDET Onsite training
    (CLEAR-AA, 2024-03-01) IPDET
    IPDET 2024 now open for registration!
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    Terms of Reference for conducting a comparative analysis of diagnostic tools for National Evaluation Systems in Africa
    (2023-10-23) CLEAR-AA
    CLEAR-AA, DEval and WFP are collaborating to strengthen evaluation capacity development across the African Continent. At a kick-off workshop at the Evidence 2023 Conference in September 2023 in Entebbe, Uganda, the three partners agreed on the need for a deeper understanding of the landscape of diagnostic tools and processes, towards improving interventions focused on the strengthening or establishment of national M&E systems, and more specifically to help focus their work in Evaluation Capacity Development [ECD], particularly across the African continent.
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    CLEAR-AA 2022 Annual Report
    (2022-01-01) CLEAR-AA
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    Strengthening and measuring monitoring and evaluation capacity in selected African programmes
    (African Evaluation Journal, 2022-12-15) Masvaure, Steven and Fish, Tebogo
    Strengthening the capacities of countries and organisations to perform monitoring and evaluation (M&E) functions is gaining momentum in the Global South. However, there is limited literature on the effectiveness and impact of these capacity strengthening initiatives in Africa. Across the continent, there has been a global push to strengthen M&E capacity both within the state and non-state sector. The rationale for the push and investments is based on the premise that M&E capacity is critical for assisting public officials, non-state sector development managers, non-governmental organisations, and donors to improve the design and implementation of their projects, improve progress, increase impact, and enhance learning. Despite considerable investments to build M&E capacity in the African context, literature shows that the measurement of these initiatives is non-existent. To explore M&E capacity strengthening initiatives and how their effectiveness is being measured. The study adopted a qualitative research approach, specifically using semi-structured interviews to gain an in-depth understanding of capacity-strengthening approaches and how capacity strengthening activities are measured. A sample was drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Results: This study found that M&E capacity strengthening in the selected countries is ad hoc, indiscriminate, haphazard and mainly focuses on developing individual skills and abilities. The significance of strengthening M&E system capacity in Anglophone Africa has been strongly supported by this study, considering the critical impact that effective M&E systems have in enabling countries to reach their development goals.