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AfrEA 2007 Announced |
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Updated: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 04:54
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Evaluate Development, Develop Evaluation
a promising network for Africa’s future
Since its inception in 1999, AfrEA has held three
international conferences, in Kenya and South Africa, the last
one bringing together 550 participants from 56 countries.
The fourth conference of the African Evaluation
Association will be held from 15 to 21 January 2007 in Niamey,
Niger (West Africa), with pre-conference Professional Development
Workshops scheduled for 15 and 16 January 2007.
Niger has the privilege to host the first M&E
network in West Africa, the ReNSE (Réseau Nigérien
de Suivi Evaluation, the Nigerien M&E Network), set up in
1999, purposed at strengthening the culture of evaluation in Niger.
Following up on the very successful 2004 AfrEA
conference in Cape Town, the upcoming conference will focus on
Evaluation and Development in Africa.
The purpose of the conference is to strengthen
capacity in monitoring and evaluation in order to improve policy
development and programme performance in Africa. The conference
is expected to have a major impact in the building of an evaluation
culture in the African mindsets. It will culminate in a joint
communiqué from African national leaders, the Niamey Declaration.
This declaration will set up the future of evaluation in Africa
and promote the use of the African Evaluation Guidelines (AEG).
More specifically, the Conference will address
a variety of topics:
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Ways in which evaluation can provide the achievement
of development goals; |
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Relations between evaluation and governance; |
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Use and quality of evaluation in Africa; |
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Challenges that lie ahead in terms of evaluation capacity
building. |
In addition, the conference will provide opportunities
to participants to strengthen their competencies.
The conference expected results are as follows:
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African political leaders have adopted a declaration
which highlights their engagement to promote evaluation as
a tool to strengthen democracy/governance. |
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The conference participants are better equipped to use evaluation
as a way of accelerating the achievements of global and regional
development goals, to reduce poverty. |
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The conference participants have further developed their
competencies as evaluation practitioners and managers, in
order to strengthen the evaluation function in their organisations. |
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The conference will bring together a broad range of participants
from all over the world: government representatives, decision
makers, parliamentarians, development partners, researchers,
practitioners, networks, associations, etc. |
A call for proposals will be sent out shortly.
Don’t miss the opportunity; be part of this
big event … we are looking forward to meeting you in Niger!
For more information, please go to:
http://66.201.108.198/afrea/content/index.cfm?navID=18&itemID=776
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