Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems through the lens of participatory governance and co-production: Implications for a Made in Africa Evaluation approach

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dc.article.start-page1en_ZA
dc.citation.doihttps://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v10i1.622en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCandice Morkel
dc.contributor.authorAdeline Sibanda
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-13T15:17:12Z
dc.date.available2022-09-13T15:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-13
dc.descriptionThis article explores how localised approaches to governance (merged with co-production) could ensure that evaluation systems are liberatory if they are endogenous and indigenous in their design and respond to the needs of citizens (rather than serving an upward accountability agenda). The history of evaluations on the African continent can be linked to the introduction of upward systems of accountability resulting from the rapid introduction of international aid programmes for the (re)building of African states during the post-independence era. Results-based management and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) became commonplace, the features of which continue to imbue national M&E systems across the continent. These systems, if not intentionally so designed and implemented, are not particularly focused on learning for course-correction and performance improvement from the perspective of citizens. Conducting evaluations, in particular, is often based on the need for accountability to funders or decision-makers, as opposed to downward accountability to the public and intended beneficiaries of the interventions.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article explores how localised approaches to governance (merged with co-production) could ensure that evaluation systems are liberatory if they are endogenous and indigenous in their design and respond to the needs of citizens (rather than serving an upward accountability agenda). The history of evaluations on the African continent can be linked to the introduction of upward systems of accountability resulting from the rapid introduction of international aid programmes for the (re)building of African states during the post-independence era. Results-based management and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) became commonplace, the features of which continue to imbue national M&E systems across the continent. These systems, if not intentionally so designed and implemented, are not particularly focused on learning for course-correction and performance improvement from the perspective of citizens. Conducting evaluations, in particular, is often based on the need for accountability to funders or decision-makers, as opposed to downward accountability to the public and intended beneficiaries of the interventions.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianJR2022en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/33171
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dc.journal.linkhttps://aejonline.org/index.php/aej/issue/view/19en_ZA
dc.journal.titleCountry-led monitoring and evaluation systems throughthe lens of participatory governance and co-production: Implications for a Made in Africa Evaluation approachen_ZA
dc.journal.volume10en_ZA
dc.orcid.idhttps://aejonline.org/index.php/aej/issue/view/19en_ZA
dc.publisherAfrican Evaluation Journalen_ZA
dc.titleCountry-led monitoring and evaluation systems through the lens of participatory governance and co-production: Implications for a Made in Africa Evaluation approachen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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