Author: Dominique

Upcoming Evaluations Illustrate the Complexity of Use

By Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa Senior Lecturer & Design Clinic Facilitator Upcoming Evaluations Illustrate the Complexity of UseOne area of consensus within Africa’s growing national evaluation systems is the importance of a use-focused design. On the surface, this seems uncontroversial. Given each country’s...

DPME’s Design clinic confirms the importance of participation

By Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa Senior Lecturer & Design Clinic Facilitator  DPME’s Design clinic confirms the importance of participationThe Department of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (DPME) held its design clinic on the 6th and 7th of September 2022 in Pretoria. Facilitating it has been a professional...

SAMEA Conference 2022 Multipaper Session

By Parfait Kasongo Communication & Learning Coordinator On the Thursday 22 September 2022, Twende Mbele hosted a multi-paper session at the SAMEA Biannual Conference titled,‘Can Horizontal Leadership Approaches Augment the Practice of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in the Public Sector’. Born...

SAMEA Conference 2022 Panel Discussion

By Parfait Kasongo Communication & Learning Coordinator On Thursday the 22 September, Twende Mbele hosted a panel discussion title,‘Using experience to adapt a guideline on Rapid Evaluations in the public sector’ at the SAMEA Biannual Conference.The purpose of this session was to update the existing...

DPME Evaluation Design Clinic – 6, 7 September 2022

As part of the National Evaluation System (NES), a system of Evaluation Design Clinic is used to facilitate stakeholder participation in the conceptualisation and design of the evaluations prioritised in the National Evaluation Plan (NEP). The last Design Clinic was held in September 2021 with custodian departments and proposing parties on the evaluations identified for the periods 2021/22 and...