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In the same fashion that the African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (AfCoP-MfDR) chose to establish National Communities of Practice to enable its members to better define their own results agenda, AfriK4R and two Regional economic…

As AfriK4R is putting a greater focus on regional integration, we wanted to share with you the below short excerpts from a speech given on October 5 by the Dr. Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor at the Bank of Uganda. The full speech is available …

To become results-oriented, African states will need to unleash their regional potential. The continent is filled with resources and can sustain higher growth rates and increase its trade. But Africa can only reap these benefits if its countries integrate with one another.

The continent is made up of…

Time for results in Africa is now! It is our responsibility as African leaders to help meet the transformation agenda in Africa through the use of MfDR principles and tools. We, 2,500 civil servants, parliamentarians and CSO representatives who are members of the AfCoP coming from 43 African countries, will…

There has been a huge amount written on urban governance in well-known success stories such as Singapore and on lesser-known but useful models for municipal citizen engagement in places such as Colombia. Some great research on these issues is currently being carried out by organizations in the…

Program Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist

Habitat for Humanity International is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. The purpose and goal of Habitat for Humanity International is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses in partnership with families in need.

Habitat…

This piece was originally posted by the Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel blog.

Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development…

 The Malaysian Evaluation Society (MES) is pleased to announce its upcoming 5^th MES International Evaluation Conference in Kuala Lumpur from 10 – 14 September, 2012. The theme for…

Traditional aid models and organizations have often not managed to precipitate sustainable development, nor do they always have the incentives in place to report failure or adapt rapidly when plans go wrong. As a result, failing projects continue and results remain sub-optimal. One approach we have adopted at the Accountability Lab is to understand that in difficult contexts, the definition of success (or more accurately- progress) must be slightly different. Taking risks with new and more…

We invite you to complete this questionnaire which is being undertaken on behalf of the Gatsby Foundation in the UK, which is one of the donors supporting the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI).  Gatsby Foundation are interested in understanding better the uniqueness and impact of AGI’s work, and how AGI…

On an accountability scoping trip to Pakistan recently, we were able to find out more about the excellent Punjab Program for Proactive Governance. This program, designed, funded and implemented by the Government of Punjab in 2010, proactively seeks feedback from citizens on their experiences using public services, through the use of SMS messages and a phone call-back system. Punjabis provide their cellphone numbers to local officials when they…

What could be the best model for building sustainable Monitoring and Evaluation capacity for Africa by Africans?

Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Course Overview

The course introduces impact evaluation as a…

The international monetary fund Staff Mission on the 2012 Article IV Consultation with Ethiopia made a press release on June 14, 2012 saying “The Ethiopian economy continues to grow at a robust pace, poverty continues to fall, and inflation, while still high, has been declining. The expansion in economic activity has been supported by robust export growth and public enterprise investments. Tight monetary and fiscal policies have contributed to the deceleration of inflation, which also…

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On behalf of the 3ie Board, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have contracted Triple Line Consulting, with ODI, to carry out a Process Evaluation of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). As part of our consultation with stakeholders, we would like to draw on the experience from a broad range of policymakers, implementing agencies and evaluation practitioners including members of the African Community of Practice on Managing for Development…

The global development industry’s realization at the turn of the twenty-first century was well received over the underperformance of aid in the last half of the previous century. New development paradigms emerged including poverty reduction strategies and the MDGs. New partnership frameworks between donors and recipient countries were formulated to increase aid effectiveness. These frameworks ranged from the Monterrey Consensus, to the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and the…

This paper is a contribution to the ongoing discourse and search for strategic options to transform Sierra Leone’s economy from the perspective of successes recorded by the East Asian (EA) countries since the 1960s. The development models pursued by the EA region have been exemplary and highly recommended for replication in other parts of the developing world. As diverse as Sub-Saharan Africa in culture, ethnicity and other socio-political variables, many of the economies in East Asia have…

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Below are the presentations used during the series on Frontier Issues in Results & Public Sector Performance Series held at the World Bank, in Washington, DC, from May 2 to May 10. More information on the series is available…