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African M & E Systems: Exploratory Case Studies
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Published on IDEAS website: 19-Oct-12
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The publication comprises six monitoring and evaluation (M&E) case studies from Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda. The case studies should not be read as definitive diagnostics on the state of M&E in the countries concerned, but rather as first steps in building an evidence-based approach to M&E across the continent.
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African ME Cases - FINAL.pdf
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Womens Meaningful Participation: Peacebuilding & Governance.
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Author: Lesley Abdela
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Published on IDEAS website: 24-Jan-11
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CARE Nepal has been working on 1325 with the poorest and most marginalised women from the grassroots up. When poor, vulnerable and socially excluded women are empowered and given the opportunity, they show themselves ready and able to begin untangling the knots of politics, Gender- and Caste-based prejudice to work out their own solutions. In Nepal an immense gap exists between the Capital and the people who live in the rest of Nepal, especially the millions outside the Kathmandu Valley. Hierarchies in various forms prevent womens meaningful participation, especially PVSE women. There are parallel universes with the women mostly in one universe, the men in another.
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CARE Report Nepal.pdf
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Evaluating the Outcomes of an Arts & Culture
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Author: Ricardo Wilson-Grau, with Karel Chambille
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Published on IDEAS website: 08-Nov-08
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Wilson-Grau.pdf
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Community Monitoring and Evaluation: the Ongoing Experience of a Community Driven Development project in North Somalia
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Author: Demetrio Innocenti
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Published on IDEAS website: 07-Nov-08
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Evaluation Use in the Context of the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)
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Author: Rahel Kahlert, Ryland Potter and Eric Abdullateef
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Published on IDEAS website: 07-Nov-08
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International conferences as a tool for reinforcing the use of evaluation results. The example of the IFI conference on Disaster Risk Management Evaluations
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Author: Claudine Voyadzis
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Published on IDEAS website: 07-Nov-08
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The use of quality evaluations in the developing World
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Author: Agnes K. Kabanda
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Published on IDEAS website: 07-Nov-08
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Monitoring and Evaluation by Images: A Complementary Learning Tool for Rural Development in Latin America
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Author: Emma L. Rotondo
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Published on IDEAS website: 07-Nov-08
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Facilitating Transport and Trade in Mongolia
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Published on IDEAS website: 13-Aug-08
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Landlocked Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world. Because of the large geographic area and low population density, its transport system is basic.
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Non-Financial Services to the M/SMEs Sector in Egypt: A Truism or Hoax?
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid, IDEAS Board Member
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Published on IDEAS website: 03-May-07
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Microsoft Word - NonFinan.pdf
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Institutionalization of Monitoring and Evaluation System in Sri Lanka
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Author: Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy
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Published on IDEAS website: 28-Apr-07
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Lessons learnt, Best practices, Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward.
Globally many countries are pursuing results orientation in their development initiatives by building more effective Monitoring and Evaluation System. As part of its broader efforts to institutionalize Managing for Development Results (MfDR), the Government of Sri Lanka has taken specific steps to strengthen Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation System at the national level through the Ministry of Plan Implementation and its Monitoring and Evaluation Arm the Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring (D/FABM).
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Summary on Evaluation Abstract- SLEVAMPI Int Conf.doc
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THE TRANSFER OF RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT TO THE TREES AND MARKETS (T&M) THEME, AT THE WORLD TREE CENTRE (ECOAGRI). Nairobi, Kenya
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Author: Rosa Muraguri- Mwololo, Ph.D
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Published on IDEAS website: 03-Oct-06
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The research reported here has been primarily aimed at increasing an understanding of the complexities of transferring technologies from one context to another. In this study the transferred technology is Results Based Management (RBM) (a blueprint from development investor governments to recipient developing countries) and the end-user of the technology is the Tree and Markets (T&M) Theme, located at the ECOAGRIs global headquarters (HQs) in Nairobi. Only three field sites were visited to advance the understanding of the transfer process at T&M Theme HQs, although T&M is a key thematic program at ECOAGRI that has a global span. The first site was in western Kenya, the second in Malawi and the third in Cameroon.
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Egypts Privatization Policy at Stake: How far are we from exercising our Right to Know?
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid
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Published on IDEAS website: 10-May-06
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This paper examines the dangers of rapid privatisation in transitional economies and the value of information and transparency in providing checks and balances.
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A Complete Framework for Development in Egypt, Conditioned by Implementation.
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid
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Published on IDEAS website: 10-May-06
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This paper reviews three key documents which track development in Egypt: the Socio-Economic Development Plan, The Millennium Developmemnt Goals Tracking Report, and the National Human Development Report.
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The Seal of Success to Good Corporate Governance in Egypt.
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid
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Published on IDEAS website: 10-May-06
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Good Corporate Governance is a key factor in Egypts path to institutional development and to attracting foreign and local investments to the country.
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The Small Business Informality Challenge: Lessons learned from country experiences and the road ahead for Egypt
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid and Alia El Mahdi
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Published on IDEAS website: 10-Apr-06
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The exclusion of the informal sector from the formal economy of nations has led governments who recognise the phenomenon to adopt one of two approaches: small business support policies were either geared to towards bringing small businesses inside the framework of the economy, or else towards deliberately leaving them space to grow in their own way, thus promoting maximum creativity and stimulation to local communities.
This paper opens a debate upon the respective merits of these policies before analysing the status quo of the informal business sector in Egypt, and identifying constraints and opportunities which affect these small businesses.
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Small Business Informality.pdf
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An Aid gone wrong story?
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Author: Rajan Alexander ( Development Consultancy Group, Bangalore, India)
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Published on IDEAS website: 28-Mar-06
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This fascinating report, about relief efforts in the tsunami-ravaged areas of Nagapattinam and Chenai in India, raises important issues about international aid.
The tsunami is undoubtedly the most publicised and best-funded response of all times. The relief community further raised expectations by embracing a captivating mantra Build Back Better. Yet the evaluations and reviews produced at the first anniversary of the disaster are bringing to light fundamental inadequacies in relief efforts.
Alexander declares that his objective in writing this report is not to criticise, but to provoke debate, and to encourage learning from experience. He accepts that in relief as well as development, mistakes are part of the risk. He seeks to create a more flexible donor base that is willing to adapt its giving in accordance with operational realities in the ground.
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Ways to reduce the risk in extending financial loans (specifically Housing Loans), to AIDS-affected individuals in Namibia
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Author: Hanno Sonntag
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Published on IDEAS website: 24-Mar-06
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Hanno Sonntag, of the Financial Cooperation Evaluation Department, KfW invites your comments and contributions on this important issue. He writes
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During the preparation of the final evaluation of a KfW-housing finance project in Namibia, I came across the issue that from an economist's point of view it seems highly likely that AIDS will lead to quite severe problems in this sector if there are no intelligent project design features within the project design, that link the lending business of a bank with some kind of a social protection or medical treatment activity.
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Painful yet Rewarding: Paving the way to Results-Oriented Budgeting in Egypt
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid
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Published on IDEAS website: 18-Nov-05
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Doha recounts the experiences of Egypt in implementing Results-Based Budgeting. Although the Egyptian experience is in its early stages and has relied at inception on international best practice in the field, it nevertheless maintains its own cultural exclusivity. This should not prevent countries at a similar stage of economic development from using the Egyptian experience as a useful case study so that they may take note of successes and may take the necessary precautions to avoid pitfalls when embarking on a similar exercise..
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The Social Responsibility of the Private Sector in Building an Arab Knowledge-Based Society
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid
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Published on IDEAS website: 18-Nov-05
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Free markets and globalization have brought about the collapse of the historical fortresses regulating the trading of goods and services. What is more important is that data and information have become easy-access commodities in the western world, commodities Arab countries are in dire need of. Hence, it is becoming a national imperative on the side of the private sector to transfer knowledge and know-how to our Arab societies to ensure growth without loss of identity. Imported, readymade prescriptions may or may not suit Arab tastes, preferences and aspirations, but Arab countries need to continue the pursuit of a workable balance that would lead to win-win situations within the framework of a common global destiny.
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The Social Responsibility of the Private Sector in Building an Arab Knowledge-based Society
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Author: Doha Abdelhamid
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Published on IDEAS website: 30-May-05
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This article continues the discussion on the role of the private sector in building a knowledge-based society. The author considers this issue a critical factor in the achievement of a qualitative shift towards economic development and in the enhancement of the status of Arab societies when compared with other nations. The author argues that the challenges confronting our societies cannot be overcome satisfactorily without an active undertaking by the private sector to build a robust knowledge society. This would not only reflect positively on society in general, but would also result in numerous benefits to be reaped by the private sector itself.
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Abdelhamid - Building an Arab Knowledge-based Society.pdf
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Raising the Stakes in Evaluation: A Key to Africas Renaissance? A DBSA Perspective
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Author: Mandla Gantsho, CEO, Development Bank of Southern Africa
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Published on IDEAS website: 10-Sep-04
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During week four of IPDET 2004, one of the lunch speakers was Mandla Gantsho, Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. He spoke on the importance of development governance as a key element of monitoring and evaluation, with particular reference to addressing the challenges of Africa's development.
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The making of the Lesotho National Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)
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Author: Khalapa Development Agency
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Published on IDEAS website: 30-Apr-04
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This consultancy was commissioned by the British Department for International Development (DFID), Lesotho Field Management Office, as a contribution to the body of knowledge concerned with poverty reduction strategy processes. Lesothos PRSP process has proved that the intensity of the exercise does not depend on the size of a country, but rather on the driving principles of promoting participation, ensuring inclusiveness, being broad based, developing partnerships, focusing on results, and being driven and owned by the country concerned. The experiences from most countries suggest that no country has ever come out the PRSP the same way it started. Although the content and outcomes have differed from country to country, there is agreement across the board that the PRSP processes have provoked a new thinking amongst participating national stakeholders.
DFID made a decision to fund this report because it frequently happens that once the ultimate goal has been achieved, the story that explains the process is never documented. This report brings to life the emotions, the tensions and the learning that the PRSP generated. It exposes the strengths and weaknesses embedded in the systems and social fabrics of the Basotho society. Finally, it provides an objective critique of the PRSP process and the heavy demands this process puts on countries with limited resources.
Commentary by: J.Atema, D. Webster and T. Phakisi: DFIDSA-Lesotho
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