By Dr Nana Opare-Djan
Introduction
Over the past year the M&E landscape in Ghana has seen tremendous measures towards institutionalising development evaluation in the entire public sector. Contributions from several stakeholders at different fora, held across the country, gave indications of the high degree of interest in M&E especially the need in drafting of a National...
Work has begun on a new project with Niger and Ghana to write and approve a National Evaluation Policy. Niger held their first workshop in May, with two Twende members attending as peer-support technical advisors. We look forward to seeing two new National Evaluation Policies being approved in due course. To read this story and more, click here for the newsletter…
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