Author: Dominique

Twende goes to Ghana

A delegation made up of the Chair of Twende Mbele, the CLEAR-AA Director and the South African Country Coordinator, Dr Ian Goldman, Dr Laila-Ruth Smith and Ms Rendani Manugu, respectively, undertook a scoping trip to Ghana to explore areas for deeper partnership. This scoping trip, one of many to come, is one such initiative towards strengthening learning for improved government performance...

ToR for Communications Strategy

Twende Mbele is looking for individuals or firms to undertake the design of a Communications Strategy for the Programme. Proposals are due 10th June 2017. The full terms of reference can be found here

Terms of Reference: Developing an online tool for legislative oversight

Purpose Elected officials are expected to conduct oversight visits, but often have relatively little background in either monitoring and evaluation, or the sectoral area they are overseeing. Support staff can provide guidance, but are often overburdened, and are faced will challenges gathering and synthesizing data and navigating the politicized oversight process, leaving them with little...

Terms of Reference: App development

The Strengthening Legislative Oversight team at CLEAR-AA are looking to build an online tool for parliamentarians to use on oversight visits. Having no coding expertise themselves, they are looking to pay someone to help them with this exciting project. The Terms of Reference for a consultant/team/organisation can be found here. Proposals are due by the 10th June, to [email protected]

Peer learning strengthens African evaluation methods

The African Evidence Network (AEN) recently published a short article on the work of Twende Mbele, with a specific focus on our peer-learning model and our work at the AfrEA conference in Kampala, Uganda earlier this year. “There was a widespread recognition of the value of peer learning to ensure the SDGs reflect an African context, and that the tools for measuring context are...