Anglophone Africa Center

University of Witwatersrand with Kenya Institute of Administration and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration

AFR Center Anglophone Africa Center was selected in November 2010.

Core Team:

Mr. Stephen Porter
University of Witwatersrand (WITS), South Africa

Mr. Charles Amoatey,
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ghana

Mr. James Obuya Bagaka,
Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA), Kenya

What's Happening at this Center

February 13 – 17: Follow up technical support to trainers trained in Tools for M&E Planning and Use in different provinces in South Africa

February 20 – 23: Course on Managing and Commissioning evaluations at Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in South Africa, in partnership with IPDET and Rockefeller Foundation

February 20 – 23: Technical Assistance to to Kenya M&E Directorate in aligning M&E policy to constitutional demands in Kenya

March 26 – April 6: Course on Results-based Management and M&E Systems in Ghana, in partnership with GIMPA in Ghana

March 26 – 29: African M&E Systems Workshop with the participation of 7 African Countries, in partnership with Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in South Africa

April 2 – 5: Training on Institutional Assessments for Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in South Africa

April 16 – 27: Course on Results-based Management and M&E Systems in partnership with KIA in Kenya

Highlights

Partnership Meeting
The CLEAR Anglophone Africa Center held its first official partnership meeting in November, 2011. The meeting was attended by the heads of Wits, the KIA and GIMPA, as well as the staff involved in CLEAR, from the three institutions. The objective of the meeting was to strengthen and deepen the strategic relationships between the partners and to understand each other’s core values and strategic position in region. During the meeting, the group made decisions around the overarching governance arrangements for the partnerships, and discussed broad agreements around financial and operational management. As a follow-up to this meeting a document is being prepared for the CLEAR Global Forum conference which will take place in Accra in January 2012.

Technical Assistance to South African Presidency
The Center is providing technical assistance for the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) at the South African Presidency in four key processes. First, they are contributing to the evaluation policy framework for the country. Secondly, they are organizing a research and learning workshop -in partnership with GTZ- related to diagnostics on country M&E systems in seven African countries. Thirdly, a training process to develop “champions” will be conducted, focusing on the basics of results-based management, institutional readiness assessments for M&E, and on managing evaluations. Finally, CLEAR is assisting in the development of a high-level three year plan for DPME, including the development of an overall results framework and indicators for the evaluation program.