Approaches to promoting Africa’s contribution to evaluation scholarship
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The growing institutionalisation of M&E on the African continent has resulted in increased queries about evaluation scholarship - what is currently being produced and published on African evaluation studies, who are the African evaluators and who they collaborate with within Africa and the rest of the world.
These questions led two leading South African Universities engaged in training evaluators at the postgraduate level to develop a number of innovations in evaluation teaching and research, which we share during this session. At the University of Stellenbosch, CREST in collaboration with CLEAR AA worked to develop the African Evaluation Database (AfrED) which contains evaluation reports, articles and theses from sub Saharan Africa. Participants will be exposed to the database, its development process, its potential for a range of evaluation stakeholders and how it has been used by evaluation students and scholars to date. At the University of Cape Town, educators worked to better unpack the African evaluation scholarship landscape, and how to teach evaluation in a manner that accommodates the growing demand for using evaluation approaches that take the African context into account. Participants will be exposed to how the Made in Africa evaluation approach is used in the UCT Masters in Programme Evaluation including challenges, solutions, and lessons learned. Together these two interwoven strands of the session will create awareness of African evaluation scholarship and highlight the importance of foregrounding Africans' contribution to knowledge in the field.
These questions led two leading South African Universities engaged in training evaluators at the postgraduate level to develop a number of innovations in evaluation teaching and research, which we share during this session. At the University of Stellenbosch, CREST in collaboration with CLEAR AA worked to develop the African Evaluation Database (AfrED) which contains evaluation reports, articles and theses from sub Saharan Africa. Participants will be exposed to the database, its development process, its potential for a range of evaluation stakeholders and how it has been used by evaluation students and scholars to date. At the University of Cape Town, educators worked to better unpack the African evaluation scholarship landscape, and how to teach evaluation in a manner that accommodates the growing demand for using evaluation approaches that take the African context into account. Participants will be exposed to how the Made in Africa evaluation approach is used in the UCT Masters in Programme Evaluation including challenges, solutions, and lessons learned. Together these two interwoven strands of the session will create awareness of African evaluation scholarship and highlight the importance of foregrounding Africans' contribution to knowledge in the field.
Conférenciers
| Nom | Titre | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Lauren Wildschut | Director of the Evaluation Studies Programme | Lauren Wildschut is the Director of the Evaluation Studies Programme. She has worked in the field of evaluation for over 20 years and has conducted evaluation studies in eight African countries in the fields of Education, Higher Education and Health. |
| Sarah Chapman | the Director of the Institute for Monitoring and Evaluation (IME). | Based at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, A/Prof Sarah Chapman is a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) professional, and the Director of the Institute for Monitoring and Evaluation (IME). |
| Tikwiza Silubonde | Lecturer in Monitoring and Evaluation | Tikwiza is a lecturer in Monitoring and Evaluation at the CREST. She is currently part of the African Evaluation Database (AfrED) team where she is responsible for the collection, cleaning, coding and quality assurance of data for AfrED, and jointly oversees the work of AfrED Assistants. |
| Nozipho Ngwabi | Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Researcher | Nozipho is a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Researcher at CREST. She has over seven years of professional practice in conducting research, evaluations, and evaluation trainings. She is currently part of the African Evaluation Database (AfrED) team. |