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Decolonising and indigenising evaluation practice in Africa: Roadmap for mainstreaming the Made in Africa Evaluation approach 非洲非殖民化和本土化评价实践:非洲制造评价方法主流化路线图

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.620

Ayabulela Dlakavu, Jabulani Mathebula, S. Mkhize

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Akonta: Examining the epistemology and ontology of Made in Africa Evaluation 考察“非洲制造”评价的认识论和本体论

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-16 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.615

M. Frehiwot

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Whither Made in Africa Evaluation: Exploring the future trajectory and implications for evaluation practice “非洲制造向何处去”评价:探讨评价实践的未来轨迹和意义

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.614

P. Tirivanhu

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The effects of coloniality and international development assistance on Made in Africa Evaluation: Implications for a decolonised evaluation agenda 殖民主义和国际发展援助对非洲制造评价的影响:对非殖民化评价议程的影响

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.628

Linda S. Khumalo

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Transforming voluntary organisations for professional evaluation into central pillars of national evaluation systems 将专业评估志愿组织转变为国家评估体系的中心支柱

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.608

Tebogo E. Fish, Ayabulela Dlakavu, Matodzi M. Amisi, S. Masvaure

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A scoping review of intersections between indigenous knowledge systems and complexity-responsive evaluation research 本土知识系统与复杂性响应性评价研究交叉点的范围审查

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.624

Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa

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Strengthening Anglophone Africa M&E systems: A CLEAR-AA perspective on guiding principles, challenges and emerging lessons 加强非洲英语国家的机电一体化系统:从CLEAR-AA的角度看指导原则、挑战和新出现的经验教训

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.601

T. Chirau, Ayabulela Dlakavu, Banele Masilela

{"title":"Strengthening Anglophone Africa M&E systems: A CLEAR-AA perspective on guiding principles, challenges and emerging lessons","authors":"T. Chirau, Ayabulela Dlakavu, Banele Masilela","doi":"10.4102/aej.v10i1.601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v10i1.601","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Evaluation capacity development (ECD) is evolving to adapt to 21st century governance and development contexts across the world. Consequently, the ECD community is seized with processes of developing, implementing and sharing best ECD practices that are able to build strong and resilient individual and institutional ME capacities.Objectives: The article seeks to contribute to the on-going discourse and practice regarding evaluation capacity development (ECD) approaches and interventions in Anglophone Africa, Africa, the Global South and global best practice.Method: The article’s methodology is essentially centred on action research pursued during the course of co-planning and designing ECD interventions across English-speaking African countries, empirical data as well as the authors’ experiences and insights gained from leading ECD interventions across African countries.Results: The Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results – Anglophone Africa’s (CLEAR-AA) principle of partnering and engaging governments and development partners throughout the life cycle of ECD interventions is paramount to cultivating country-owned and led national monitoring and evaluation (ME) systems that are sustainable and are able to facilitate a shift towards evidence-based decision-making.Conclusion: The value of this CLEAR-AA mission is that it offers the possibility of improving decision-making, policymaking and implementation and better service delivery and development outcomes in English-speaking Africa. While noting well-known ME challenges that impact the success of ECD interventions in Africa, the article highlights forward-looking CLEAR-AA strategies that seek to improve the success and impact of its ECD interventions in Anglophone Africa. Such strategies include the identification and use of ME champions in each country; working to integrate the ME function within public sector decision-making, development planning, implementation and budgeting processes; and building ECD partnerships with governments, non-governmental institutions and development partners who have intricate knowledge of country ME systems.","PeriodicalId":37531,"journal":{"name":"African Evaluation Journal","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84874583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A descriptive narrative on the current situation against the gold standards regarding institutionalisation of national monitoring and evaluation system for Botswana and Zimbabwe 关于博茨瓦纳和津巴布韦国家监测和评价制度制度化方面反对金本位制的现状的描述性叙述

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.578

Panganai F. Makadzange

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Evidence-based decision-making in the era of big data 大数据时代的循证决策

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v9i1.602

Mark Abrahams, F. Etta, Michele Tarsilla, K. Wotela

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Young and emerging African evaluators’ need for gender responsive evaluation training 年轻和新兴非洲评价人员对促进性别平等的评价培训的需要

African Evaluation Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-10 DOI: 10.4102/aej.v9i1.556

M. S. Jansen van Rensburg, A. S. Loye

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