Date: August 3-8, 2008
Venue: University of Bamako, Mali
Organizer: Association pour la Promotion de l’Evaluation au Mali (APEM) – Bamako – Mali
Mamadou Keita – President (mkeita@delta- c.org)
Workshop Coordinator: Ahmed Ag Aboubacrine, DME Coordinator, CARE International in Sierra Leone,
This event is part of the 5th Mali Symposium on Applied Sciences, to be held at the University of Bamako from August 3-8, 2008.
Abstract
Monitoring and evaluation of development intervention and policies’ implementation has become an absolute necessity after the setting of international norms of evaluation practices by donors as well as private sector, governments and local constituencies.
Evaluation has not become only a cross-cutting academic area (studied and subject of scientific researches) but also a basic requirement in almost all sectors: health, education, finance, infrastructure, social, agriculture, livestock, water and sanitation, urban planning, habitat, HIV/AIDS, transport, gender, corruption, governance.
Besides the standards set by independent organizations such as African Evaluation Association (www.afrea.org) and also IDEAS (http://www. ideas-int. org/ ); there are other specific evaluation mechanisms:
* African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)
* Governance Index of Mo Ibrahim foundation
* Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) National Evaluation Mechanisms supported by World Bank, African Development Bank, UNDP and other UN agencies.
Each of the above mentioned organizations has its norms and standards in monitoring and evaluation which are most of them very similar.
This mini-symposium objective is to promote monitoring and evaluation practices in Mali in order to ensure the effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact of development interventions undertaken by the state, local constituencies, donors, NGOs and private sector.
The specific objectives are three:
* Sharing of existing evaluation standards (state-of-art)
* Exchanging on current practices of evaluation in Mali
* Finding out the strategies for generalization / institutionalization of evaluation practice by state actors
Submission of papers
Papers should be submitted in an A4 format and should not exceed four pages. All papers related to the standards and practices of evaluation in any area could be accepted.
For more details, visit our website:
http://www.msas. maliwatch. org/msas2008/ msas2008_ 018.html
Stadards and practices in Evaluating Development.
In the developing and Under Developed Nations funds and loans for infrastructure development is being widely provided accepted. It has been generally observed that project implementation with longer cycle/period/duration have goals and objectives which are very general and ambigious as “Larger public benefits”. These goals are seems easy to achieve but their evaluation indicators are not specific and a few of the indicators, stand alone cannot make a criteria of objectives being achieved. In the longer run of the project cycle as 5 years or more, the goals seems as not achieved or rather complexed. Thus the development professionals, with wider vision frame indicators before defining a general goal to the project.
Sumeet Sharma
Social Development Specialist