Plenary speeches, paper presentations and session summaries of the Third AfrEA Conference are available to download, in PDF format, per conference session. Please click the relevant chapter link below to download the document of interest to you.

PLENARY

Click here to download Chapter 1: Opening Plenary

• Plenary Address: Zenda Ofir
• Plenary Address: Prof S Sangweni
• Plenary Address: Sulley Gariba
• Plenary Address: Elliot Stern

Click here to download Chapter 2: The African Evaluation Guidelines (AEG)

• Plenary Address: Craig Russon
• Plenary Address: Mahesh Patel

Click here to access The African Evaluation Guidelines

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Click here to download Chapter 3: Evaluation in a Culturally Diverse World

• IOCE special session: Evaluation in a culturally diverse world

Click here to download Chapter 4: Rethinking Development Evaluation in the African Context

• International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) special strand - James A. Atema
• Re-evaluating civil society organisations for evaluation: examples from Africa - Scott G. Chaplowe & Ruth Bamela Engo-Tjéga
• Challenges of utilising evaluation in Africa: the case of Kenya - K.T. Odhiambo
• Re-thinking credibility: developmental evaluation in the SADC regional environmental education programme - E. Rosenberg
• Re-thinking development evaluation – don’t neglect the fundamentals - E. Alaphia Wright

Click here to download Chapter 5: Developing Evaluation Capacity in Africa

• Special session on evaluation capacity development (ECD)
• Tanzania’s poverty monitoring system: a review of early experience and current challenges - Paschal B. Assey
• Assessing country level capacity for HIV/AIDS programme monitoring and evaluation: the case of Swaziland - Kevin Kelly & Bongani Magongo
• Building and sustaining evaluation capacity through the adoption of formal research-based evaluation courses in African tertiary institutions: a call for a proactive role for AfrEA - Obinna Donald Ogba
• The national integrated monitoring and evaluation strategy - Peter M. Sentongo

Click here to download Chapter 6: Evaluation Partnership in Development Cooperation – Issues and Challenges

• Evaluation as part of the social movement: towards a development evaluation partnership - Daniel Kamelgarn
• Development strategies and a new vision for development evaluation in Africa - Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall

Click here to download Chapter 7: Towards Development Effectiveness: Assessing National Ownership

• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) strand: Towards development effectiveness – assessing national ownership
• The role of civil society in the promotion of national ownership in Africa: the case of South Africa - Lindlyn Chiwandamira
• Ownership concepts - A.K. Shiva Kumar
  Developmental aid in support of criminal justice reform in South Africa (1994–2004) - Elrena van der Spuy

Click here to download Chapter 8: Planning, Conducting and Using Self Evaluations

• Conducting self-evaluation - Rosalía Rodriguez-García
• Conducting self-evaluations - Rosalía Rodriguez-García & Elizabeth M. White
• Demistyfying managing for results for application to programmatic management - Elizabeth M. White, Rosalía Rodriguez-García & Jack W. Van Holst Pellekaan

Click here to download Chapter 9: Improving Evaluation Quality in Africa

• Improving evaluation quality in Africa: Overview of the strategies and related issues - Craig Russon

Click here to download Chapter 10: The Evaluation of Humanitarian Action

• Introduction to the evaluation of humanitarian action

TECHNICAL STRANDS

Click here to download Chapter 11: Community Based M&E

• Community-based monitoring and evaluation: benefits, challenges and recommendations - Simon Kisira & Ross Conner

Click here to download Chapter 12: M&E for Good Governance

• Monitoring and evaluation for good governance technical strand
• Measuring democracy and good governance in Africa: prospects and challenges - Victor A.O. Adetula
• Measuring good governance in South Africa - Fanie Cloete
• Recommendations of a workshop on Strategies and Pathways for Fostering Control and Monitoring and Evaluation Programmes for Decentralised Authorities - Kinda Kassoum
• Who are we? The opinion of internal and external stakeholders on the Society for Family Health, Nigeria - O.A. Ladipo & Z.A. Akinyemi
• Governance and bureaucracy in Nigerian public service: case study of the Lagos State Civil Service between 1983 and 2003 - Rosamund Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
• Description of the SIDA Octagon NGO assessment tool - Bill Sewell

Click here to download Chapter 13: M&E and NEPAD 

• Monitoring and evaluation and its importance to the NEPAD/APRM process

Click here to download Chapter 14: M&E in Conservation and Sustainable Development

• Conservation and Sustainable Development Stream: Practical and innovative tools for and approaches to evaluating impact

Click here to download Chapter 15: M&E in Education

• M&E in education technical strand - Magda Fourie
• Initial teacher education learnerships in South Africa: lessons from the evaluation of the three-year pilot - Michele Berger & Julie Douglas
• Evaluating service-learning: challenges and lessons from the United States - Scott G. Chaplowe & Patricia S. Kwon
• Developing a decision-making framework for responding to critical incidents arising ineducational evaluations - Paul Hobden
• Evaluating teacher professional development programmes: evaluator–partner experiences with a primary school in Kampala, Uganda - Fredrick M. Samanya

Click here to download Chapter 16: Gender and Rights Based M&E

• Gender- and rights-based monitoring and evaluation technical strand
• Tools and methodologies for rights- and gender-based monitoring and evaluation - Elena Marcelino
• Principles of gender and rights-based results-oriented participatory monitoring and evaluation - Adeline Sibanda 

PLENARY

Click here to download Chapter 17: Closing Plenary

• Plenary Address: Richard Levin
• Plenary Address: Noeleen Heyzer