
Africa
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Developing a Regional Approach to M&E Systems Development in Africa
In September 2019, the CLEAR centers, together with the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, convened the ‘“Evaluation Capacity Development in Africa”‘ conference in Accra, Ghana. This was the first multilingual regional gathering of evaluation practitioners and users of evaluation of this magnitude on the continent.
Forty-six participants from 24 African countries attended the conference, representing governments, civil society organizations, academia, the evaluation practitioner community, donors, and partners. During the two days, participants from English, French, and Portuguese language groups worked together to identify challenges and potential solutions for building ECD across countries in Africa.
The conference concluded that there is a need for advocacy and political dialogue to foster demand for better evaluation of policies, laws, programs, projects, and other development interventions not supported by donors to improve evidence-based decision-making processes in the region.