Date: Friday 26 May 2023Magazine: Evaluation Week 2022 special edition
Debt Déjà-Vu: Could Africa Have Seen This Coming? – What Evaluation Tells Us
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on debt burdens and debt sustainability, particularly in lower-income countries, is getting considerable attention these days, as it should. Compounded by the fallout on food, fuel, and fertilizer prices from Russia’s war with Ukraine, developing economies are facing rising costs and depressed economic activity, forcing many to borrow heavily to meet basic needs.
Date: Friday 26 May 2023Magazine: Evaluation in the time of Corona edition
Banking on the people of Africa: Improving human and social development
The session “Banking on the people of Africa: Improving human and social development” discussed the lessons from evaluations of AfDB projects particularly geared toward human and social development. The panel debated whether Africa's bottom-heavy demographic pyramid was a dividend and whether it could support inclusive growth, youth entrepreneurship, and employment perspectives in Africa.
Date: Thursday 25 May 2023Magazine: Evaluation Week 2022 special edition
Effective approaches to tackle debt burdens and build economic resilience – thoughts from a panel discussion
Evaluation Week, session on “Debt burdens and the economic resilience of African countries: Effective approaches for international financial institutions”, 30 September: At the very moment when Africa needs to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic, its public finances are heavily constrained. The fact that 23 African countries are currently suffering from, or are at risk of, debt distress strongly indicates the severity of the economic challenges countries on the continent face.
Date: Thursday 25 May 2023Magazine: Evaluation Week 2022 special edition
Choices for tackling energy challenges and building resilience to climate change: A roundtable discussion on a sustainable transition for Africa
On 29 September 2022, energy sector experts from the African Development Bank, joined by evaluation experts from IDEV and Power Africa, a USAID-funded agency working closely with the AfDB on several large-scale projects, participated in a roundtable discussion on Africa’s energy challenges and needs as part of the Evaluation Week session “Light up and power Africa: Fast-changing paradigms”.
Date: Thursday 25 May 2023Magazine: Evaluation Week 2022 special edition
Choices for tackling energy challenges and building resilience to climate change: A roundtable discussion on a sustainable transition for Africa
In this article, we feature excerpts and abridged versions of interventions during the Evaluation Week session on Maximizing agricultural productivity to feed Africa during and beyond the imminent food crisis: Lessons on hand, to highlight a few perspectives of what the evidence can tell us about how to tackle Africa's looming food crisis through agricultural productivity.
Date: Tuesday 16 May 2023Magazine: Evaluation Week 2022 special edition
Evaluation Week 2022 opening session: using evaluation to tackle the key challenges facing African people
The opening session of the 2022 Development Evaluation Week attracted thought leaders and experts from international development institutions, academia, and governments, who set the tone for the next three days of discussions and knowledge sharing. The participants were provided with an overview of some of the critical challenges facing Africa before a panel discussion on the role of evaluation in tackling them.
Date: Tuesday 01 Mar 2022Magazine: The Future of Impact Evaluations in Africa
Reducing impact evaluation capacity disparities through holistic engagement
Impact evaluation capacity in Africa varies widely across the continent. Research work at the Africa Centre for Evidence highlights the disparities in terms of geography and sector (Erasmus, Jordaan and Stewart, 2020). Indeed, most impact evaluators come from English-speaking countries in East and Southern Africa. In terms of substance, most impact evaluations by African evaluators are focused on the health and nutrition sectors, with few intervening in social sciences.