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The African Evaluation Association (AFREA) in collaboration
with the Public Service Commission (PSC) hosts the Third
African Evaluation Conference in Cape Town, 1-4 December
2004.
The African Evaluation Association (AFREA) in collaboration
with the Public Service Commission (PSC) of South Africa is
hosting the Third African Evaluation Conference (AfrEA)
between the 1- 4 December 2004, in Cape Town. The Conference
will be preceded on the 29 and 30 November by training
workshops. Other government partners involved in this
conference are the Department of Public Service and
Administration (DPSA), the Presidency, the NEPAD
Secretariat, the Department of Provincial and Local
Government and National Treasury.
The theme for this year’s conference is: Africa Matters,
Evaluation Matters – joining forces for Democracy,
Governance and Development.
This conference offers an ideal opportunity for all those
involved in monitoring and evaluation and related fields to
be exposed to high-quality training by international
experts, as well as exposure to various technical and
special strands that deliberate on the practice of M&E on
the continent. The previous conference that was held in
Nairobi had over 300 participants from 34 countries. Also
expected at the conference are over 20 national and regional
evaluation associations and network leaders and a number of
eminent M&E experts. It is an ideal networking opportunity
for those interested in the growing discipline of M&E.
The following pre-conference workshops are on offer:
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Participatory M&E tools for building capacity of parliaments
in poverty monitoring
- Evaluation of health programmes in complex emergencies
- Intro to assessing organisational performance
- Real World evaluation: conducting evaluation under
constraints of time, budget and date
- Managing for results using the PROLL integrated performance
management framework
- Designing and implementing a results-based M&E system in the
public sector
- Building national capacity through effective evaluation
associations and networks
- Intro to programme theory and logic models
- Using and teaching logic models
- Contracting for evaluation
- Designing and building performance-based M&E systems: a tool
for managing programs and policies
The conference sessions have been arranged around the
following topical issues, viz.
- Re-thinking Development Evaluation
- Developing Evaluation Capacity
- Evaluation in Diverse Cultural Contexts
- Innovation in M&E Methods and Approaches in Africa
- Community-based M&E
- M&E for Good Governance
- M&E, NEPAD and other Regional Initiatives
- M&E and Poverty Reduction
- M&E for Conservation and Sustainable Development
- M&E in Education
- Gender and Rights-based M&E
- M&E and HIV/AIDS
- M&E and Health
- M&E, Agricultural Research and Rural Development
Partners
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African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
GTZ, SA Office
- Nelson Mandela Foundation, SA
- World Bank, Washington, USA
- Department for International Development (DFID)
Sponsors
- African Development Bank (AfDB), Tunis
- Agence Intergouv. la Francophonie, Paris
- CGIAR
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
- May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust (MSSCT), USA
- OECD DAC Evaluation Network, Paris
- UNIFEM, New York USA
- University of the Free State, SA
- USAID, Washington, USA
- World Conservation Union (IUCN), Switzerland
Our non-funding partners are:
- Department of Public Service and Administration, SA
Government
- International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
- International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
- NEPAD Secretariat in Office of the President, SA Government
- Public Service Commission (PSC), SA Government (which also
houses the co-chair of the conference as a partnership
between AfrEA and the SA Government)
- UNDP, New York, USA
To register visit: www.afrea.org/conference or email
admin@afrea.org
or afrea@bronzegate.com or
Lise@evalnet.co.za
Tel: (011) 880 3790
Fax: (011) 880 4736
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