Limited Use of Evaluative Evidence in Public Policy, Planning and Voluntary National Review (VNR) Development – Policy Brief
January 2023
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.
How to Undertake Rapid Evaluations – Updated Guideline
January 2023
This Guideline, updated from the 2019 version, is an introduction to doing rapid evaluations, either conducted internally or externally or a hybrid. This updated guideline is based on the experiences of Twende Mbele countries (Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, South Africa and Uganda) in planning, undertaking and using rapid evaluations. The first part provides an overview of what rapid evaluation is and when to undertake it. Part B uses the structure of the joint Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation/Twende Mbele guideline on the rapid evaluation toolkit and introduces particular aspects in relation to rapid evaluation.
This updated guideline aims to specifically provide guidance for commissioning, undertaking and using rapid evaluations in a government context, based on the feedback experiences of Twende Mbele partner countries in piloting rapid evaluation. The initial rapid evaluation guideline was developed collaboratively between the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) and the Twende Mbele.
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