AfCoP Members: What do you want to talk about?

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Permalink Reply by copafrica on February 12, 2009 at 4:43pm

Current suggestions include:

- Link between national policy or PRS (Poverty Reduction Strategy) and the Budget (i.e. how to integrate national strategies in the national budget)

- Evaluation of the impact of development policies/strategies

-Results-based evaluation

-Health indicators

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Permalink Reply by copafrica on February 13, 2009 at 11:26am

New suggestions came in today from members today!

1. New implications for monitoring and evaluation of programs and development projects under an MfDR approach

2. MfDR and the legislative power: How to use an MfDR approach in the control of the executive by a National Assembly

3. What MfDR offers decentralized bodies in improving transparency in the management of local development

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Permalink Reply by copafrica on February 20, 2009 at 9:23am

New suggestion from a colleague in Madagascar:

- Creating a results culture - as this is the biggest challenge when we begin to implement MfDR

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Permalink Reply by Zaam Ssali on February 24, 2009 at 1:27am

It may be useful for members to share knowledge and learn from colleagues who have introduced results Management in thier programmes/projects. Practical lessons on how to

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Permalink Reply by copafrica on February 24, 2009 at 10:48am

Zaam, thanks for this suggestion. We do hope that the case study discussions which will start in a few months will promote that kind of practical experience sharing!

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Permalink Reply by Dona P Chimanikire on March 28, 2009 at 7:57am

IT in Africa

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Permalink Reply by Samer Hachem on April 9, 2009 at 8:46am

I would like to build on the idea suggested by Zaam. My suggestion would be to make all discussions built around a real case study submitted by members -possibly taking topic suggestions above as overall framework. The end result of any discussion could become a synthesis case study document that presents possible solutioning approaches to the initial question and that could then be used to feed the Sourcebook -possibly African- and the content of the e-library.

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Permalink Reply by Daphne S. Leger on April 9, 2009 at 4:45pm

Samer,
Thank you for your input, that is EXACTLY what we have in mind and are working to initiate this process within the next month. Hope you will be involved in the case study development and discussions once they are launched!
Best,
Daphne

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