CSOs & Governments Collaborating in Response to COVID (Webinar Slides)
May 2021
This webinar explored how the relationship between governments and CSOs has been affected by the pandemic, and the uptake of evidence for use in response to the pandemic with lessons learnt. A central question to be explored is ‘have governments learnt to reply on CSOs for information (and evidence more broadly) as a crisis response?’
The Role of Peer-learning Networks During Crisis (Webinar Slides)
April 2021
This webinar brought together three peer learning networks in Africa that have been institutionalising learning as a capacity development initiative to discuss the ways in which government network partners are utilising their networks during the last 12 months.
It unpacked how peer learning networks evolved during national lockdowns and the interruption of regular government business due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion on what facilitated and hindered continued peer learning during this time will illuminate ways in which networks can better assist governments to institutionalize learning mechanisms.
What is Meant by Transforming Evaluation for Africa?
March 2021
In light of the recent global ‘Black lives Matter’ protests, we are increasing seeing a movement for the complete overhaul of racist systems that reinforce and recreate the types actions that result in global inequalities and discrimination based on race, gender and sexual orientation. The protesters which are made up of people of different races, ethnicities, religions and sexual orientation, took to the streets to destroy modern colonial representations in the form of statues, monuments and even flags. Although victory seems to be far away, protestors across the globe have forced politicians to sign regulations and laws which may go a long way in stemming the systemic racism that exists in law enforcement and in the representation of history.
The call for transformation and decolonization is nothing new in African vocabulary – movements toward decolonization of the education and healthcare sectors have been in existence since the 1960s. The development evaluation space has not been exempted from these calls. Over the years, there’s been growing calls for the transformation of the evaluation landscape with more female representation and the use of more black evaluators in the space. Phrases such as: Made In Africa Evaluation; Indigenous Evaluation; and Decolonizing Evaluations have been touted more and more frequently.
Do they all mean the same thing? If not, then what do they mean? This brief will look to define what the meanings of terms such as, ‘Made in Africa Evaluation’, ‘Indigenous Evaluation’ and ‘Decolonizing Evaluations’. And how they could fast-track the achievement of the continental development agenda.
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