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A presentation by Philip Browne at the 2022 SAMEA Conference. This presentation looked at the role of leadership in Public Sector monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).

A presentation by Dr Dlakavu at the 2022 SAMEA Conference speaking to the experiences of Benin, Uganda and Niger of piloting rapid evaluation .

This is a presenation by Ms Molaiwa from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at the 2022 SAMEA Conference.

The German Institute for Development Evaluation (Deval), the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results-Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) and the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results-Latin America and the Caribbean (CLEAR-LAC) formed a technical working group that undertook this research on the current role of evaluations in informing the drafting of country Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports. This attached discussion paper report elaborates on what the discussion paper found regarding the evidence sources of a typical VNR. This study is an important contribution to knowledge and best practice regarding the position of evaluation in the tracking of SDG progress among UN member nations. There were 8 country case studies: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda (Anglophone Africa); Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico. Read the discussion paper for more on this interesting cross-continental study.

This policy brief is a succinct summary of findings from the discussion paper titled VNRs and SDG evaluations in Anglophone Africa and Latin America: A mapping of common challenges and emerging good practices (2022) by DEval and CLEAR-AA and CLEAR-LAC. The policy brief is important because it recommends five remedial policies for addressing the marginalised position of evaluation in VNR development. The recommendations are targeted and government policymakers, parliaments, evaluation stakeholders, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD) institutions.