M&E Practice
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Our work is intended to support and improve M&E contributes to enhance governance and improved development outcomes across the continent. Here you will find Learning Notes; Policy Briefs; Practice Briefs; and Resources intended to inform evaluation practice.
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Item Voluntary National Reviews in Africa guide(CLEAR-AA, 2019-11) CLEAR-AA; UNICEFThis guide is intended for officers in African governments who are involved in developing voluntary national reviews (VNRs) of country performance against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is also intended for agencies supporting VNR processes, such as UNICEF country offices, donors, etc. It is important that the SDGs are part of government planning, and not seen as external goals separate from what governments and other actors are doing. Hence the VNRs should not be separate processes, but report on what governments and other actors are doing to address their domestic goals and their links to the SDGs. For the VNR process to be valuable, it should not just be a compliance exercise, but contribute to reflection, learning and improvement of government and non-government programmes, and assist in integrating the SDGs into these domestic goals. For the VNRs to be meaningful, they need to be based on evidence. Evaluations are a powerful source of evidence of how or how not government policies and programmes are working and why, and guidance on how and where to improve. Evaluations demonstrate where resources are being poorly used, and enable performance to be improved using the same budget envelope. The objective of this Guide is therefore to assist in the incorporation of evidence from evaluations to inform country policies and programmes, and the use of these results in the development of the VNRs.Item Evaluation Impact Investing in Africa Course (2016)(CLEAR-AA, 2016) Mr Jackson, T. Edward; Harji, KarimThis is the syllabus for an executive course on evaluating impact investing in Africa. It is designed for professionals in finance and investment, business management and acceleration, social enterprise, social innovation, development, philanthropy, public policy, university research and program evaluation. The impact investing field is defined as the range of products, services and actors that intentionally seek a social or environmental impact as well as a financial return in the deployment of capital.Item City Power Training Report(CLEAR-AA, 2017-02) CLEAR-AACapacity building is generally provided to help organizations to develop their own capacity to better fulfil their core functions, and achieve their own mission. It requires in depth reflection on organization’s culture, values and vision. The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality led by the Group Strategy Policy Communications and Relations (GSPCR) embarked on a city wide Monitoring and Evaluation capacity building programme which commenced in July 2016. This created some interest in the city as such private entities as ‘City Power’ wanted to go the same process with their staff (senior managers). Improve the organization’s overall performance and its ability to adapt itself within a changing context.Item Staff of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) Training Report(CLEAR-AA, 2017) CLEAR-AAThe course was delivered over five days (Monday to Friday) by two qualified and experienced M&E academics/facilitators using a combination of lecture, group work and practical exercises. The course made particular use of case studies to enhance and deepen learning. 1 Information on AATF programmes and projects source from http://www.aatf-africa.org/projects-programmes 2 Information sourced from AATF website (http://www.aatf-africa.org/about-us/governance/our-donors) 3 Performance Related Funding Indicators for Phase III of DFID support to the African Agricultural Technology Foundation. 4 Participants on CLEAR courses have been drawn from Botswana, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe 7 Drawing on the Centre’s tried and tested approach to adult learning, participants were encouraged to share prior knowledge of the subject and to engage in peer learning to ensure that the knowledge acquisition process was both rich and contextually relevant. The training was participatory and practical in nature utilising real case studies developed in advance by facilitators and informed by the profile of participants drawn from across a range of participating countries.Item Strengthening Regional Evaluation Capacity-Building through Local Partnerships(CLEAR-AA, 2019-02) Ms Amisi, Matodzi Michelle; Dr Chirau, TakundaCLEAR-AA’s regional strategy, completed at the end of 2018, details how CLEAR-AA will work with partners in Anglophone Africa to strengthen evaluation in the region. It also explores ways to strengthen the use of evaluative evidence in policy and programme planning to improve the quality of social policies. As part of the process for developing the strategy, CLEAR-AA held two workshops, in South Africa and Uganda, with representatives of invited organisations from countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. We wanted to test out our thinking with evaluation practitioners, policymakers and others who are working to develop evaluation capacity. The workshops helped CLEARAA to identify partner organisations that share our values and objectives. We also explored appropriate implementation approaches for our strategy, including identifying barriers and enablers. With this learning note, CLEAR-AA shares what we discussed and discovered about what is likely to strengthen regional capacity-building work and what makes it difficult. Much of what came up in the workshops is supported in the literature, and we include some key readings for readers who would like to explore the issues further.Item Working with Data: Analysing SETA data management system for a stronger M&E system(CLEAR-AA, 2019-10) Mr Tsotsotso, KhotsoThe M&E system is in itself made-up of a number of inter-related and inter-connected sub-systems. One key sub-system of the M&E system is an effective and efficient data management system. Data management refers to the practice of organizing and maintaining data processes to meet ongoing information lifecycle needs. It is a process of creating, sharing, using and managing information of an organization. In practice, a data management system can take the form of an IT system that stores and retrieves data, improves collaboration, locates knowledge sources, mines repositories for hidden knowledge, captures and uses knowledge, or in some other way enhances the data management process.Item Social Media Communications for African Public Institutions(CLEAR-AA, 2019-01) Ms Ali, AishaSocial media is growing exponentially in Africa. While many governments perceive an increase in political social media as a threat, and several governments have set up social media controls and even sanctioned complete blackouts in moments of heightened political tension, they are also increasingly finding it convenient to interact with their publics through social media. While this is mostly one-way broadcast-style communication about service delivery or in emergencies, the two-way, interactive possibilities of social media offer public institutions opportunities to tap into information from citizens and to interact.Item A meta-analysis of South African education interventions(CLEAR-AA, 2017) CLEAR-AA; ZANEX FoundationThis aim of this meta-analysis is to explore the various contextual factors and design features that influence the magnitude of the effects reported in education impact studies. The meta-analysis investigates investors and policy-makers with a synthesis of 15 years of learning, in order to inform new programming, and improve efforts to address education challenges.Item The National Evaluation Policy landscape in Africa: A comparison(CLEAR-AA, 2018) Takunda, Chirau; Cara, Waller; Caitlin, Blaser MapitsaThis policy brief examines key elements of national evaluation policies among selected African countries with a view to inform policy-makers on good practices for the development of such policies. This brief draws from a comparative study conducted by CLEAR-AA in 2018 of the status of national evaluation policies of South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Kenya.