Indigenous Evaluation Stories from Lesotho and Eswatini
Webinar | Online
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Organized by:
Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN)
About the Event
Presenters will continue the backward mining and forward-looking session involving stories of the 2025 AGDEN seeding grant projects pursuing indigenous practices with embedded evaluation wisdom, knowledge or practice by mostly early career evaluators to show what is being done and to encourage the evaluation community’s commitment to this line of work, thought and theorizing as a contribution to the Made in Africa Movement and to the ultimate goal of decolonising evaluation practice in Africa.
This session will present the following projects:
• Evaluation-related wisdom embedded in Swati proverbs.
• Cultural practices affecting gender equality in a Bantu community in Lesotho; Highlighting and addressing them.
This session aims to inspire grantmaking, mentorship, and collaborative ideation.
This session will present the following projects:
• Evaluation-related wisdom embedded in Swati proverbs.
• Cultural practices affecting gender equality in a Bantu community in Lesotho; Highlighting and addressing them.
This session aims to inspire grantmaking, mentorship, and collaborative ideation.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| NURAIN AHMED | Nurain Ahmed is a dynamic development practitioner with a track record in project coordination, monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder engagement across South Africa and other African countries. With experience at organizations such as the Graca Machel Trust and Children of the Dawn, she has led impactful initiatives focused on youth development, adolescent girls, women's entrepreneurship, and community development. Nurain brings a unique blend of programmatic insight and strategic coordination, supported by her academic background in Social Science and Public Management from Wits University. She is passionate about creating inclusive systems and strengthening accountability through evidence-based approaches in the development sector. | |
| Nondumiso HLOPHE | Nondumiso |