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Dans le but de renforcer les systèmes nationaux de Suivi et d’Évaluation (S&E) pour une meilleure gouvernance en Afrique, le programme Twende Mbele a mis l’accent sur le renforcement de la collaboration entre gouvernements et Organisations de la Société Civile (OSC) dans ses pays partenaires. En effet les OSC conduisent des évaluations alternatives, participent au développement et à la mise en oeuvre de politiques et programmes et disposent de systèmes d’informations générant des données probantes utiles à la prise de décision et à la gouvernance.

Au Bénin, la Politique Nationale d’Évaluation (PNE) a défini le rôle et la place de la société civile dans le système national d’évaluation. La PNE stipule que les organisations de la société civile doivent être impliquées dans le déroulement des évaluations et participer à leur conduite. Elles doivent être consultées pendant le processus et contribuer à la fiabilité des travaux d’évaluation par leurs connaissances et leur expertise dans les domaines concernés. Elles seront choisies sur la base de leur représentativité et de leur importance dans les secteurs concernés et seront appelées à intervenir chacune en ce qui la concerne dans la limite du niveau de participation retenu pour la circonstance.

Plus globalement, dans de nombreux pays africains, on peut observer que les OSC jouent un rôle crucial dans l’amélioration de la production et de l’utilisation des données issues des évaluations. De ce fait, un cadre de partage et d’apprentissage entre gouvernements et OSC devrait permettre de renforcer la mise en oeuvre, la durabilité et l’impact des systèmes nationaux d’évaluation (SNE), contribuant ainsi à la réalisation d’un des objectifs principaux de Twende Mbele.

In order to strengthen national Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems for better governance in Africa, the Twende Mbele program has focused on strengthening collaboration between governments and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in its partner countries. Indeed, CSOs conduct alternative evaluations, participate in the development and implementation of policies and programs and have information systems that generate evidence that is useful for decision-making and governance.

In Benin, the National Evaluation Policy (PNE) defined the role and place of civil society in the national evaluation system. The NEP stipulates that civil society organizations must be involved in the conduct of evaluations and participate in their conduct. They must be consulted during the process and contribute to the reliability of the evaluation work through their knowledge and expertise in the fields concerned. They will be chosen on the basis of their representativeness and their importance in the sectors concerned and will each be called upon to intervene as far as it is concerned within the limit of the level of participation retained for the circumstance.

More generally, in many African countries, we can observe that CSOs play a crucial role in improving the production and use of evaluation data. Therefore, a framework for sharing and learning between governments and CSOs should make it possible to strengthen the implementation, sustainability and impact of national evaluation systems (NES), thus contributing to the achievement of one of the main objectives of Twende Mbele.

The South African government is committed to developing the economy, creating employment, and attracting foreign investment. Investment incentives are used to mitigate against the cost or uncertainty of doing business in South Africa, and to upgrade or sustain production and employment, especially in priority sectors as set out in the NIPF, the NDP, the 9 Point Plan, and the post-COVID Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP).

The South African government sees business incentives as an important mechanism to raise competitiveness, address historical inequalities and increase the participation of historically disadvantaged groups in the economy. Investment incentives are viewed according to their typology or the nature of the outcome they are trying to achieve. The following types of investment incentives are typical of the South Africa incentives landscape:

1. Direct financial incentives: Including grants; loans at low interest.
2. Indirect fiscal incentives: including tax rebates and tax holidays.
3.Other non‐fiscal incentives: including regulatory and administrative concessions; and subsidised or reduced service costs.