What was discussed at Evaluation Week 2018?
This year, the conference featured plenary sessions, presentations, panel discussions, a knowledge café, keynote lectures, a professional capacity development workshop, and networking opportunities.
See Evaluation Matters Special Edition dedicated to Evaluation Week 2018
Proceedings, presenations and video coverage:
Day 1 Wednesday 6 September
Knowledge café: Evaluations for Greater Impact in Bank Operations
A lively discussion to draw on the knowledge of a variety of experts across Bank sectors and operations in order to improve the impact of Bank evaluations and, by extension, Bank performance.
Professional development workshop: Gender and evaluation
The workshop aimed to improve participants’ understanding of gender in evaluation, as well as raise awareness on the need to generate and use sex-disaggregated data to measure distributional impacts in Africa.
Moderator: Simon Mizrahi, Director, Delivery, Performance Management and Results Department, AfDB
Presentation: IEG Gender Program: Advancing the Integration of gender in evaluation
Gisela M. García, Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), world Bank
Presentation: Experience at IDEV to integrate gender in evaluation: progress, challenges and future proposals
Monica Lomena-Gelis, Principal Evaluation Officer, Independent Development Evaluation, AfDB
Presentation: Progress on Mainstreaming Gender in the Bank
Apolo Peter Kyeyune, Principal Gender Results Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, Department of Gender Women Empowerment and Civil Society, AfDB
Discussion on OECD / DAC evaluation criteria
The discussion was part of an ongoing worldwide consultation on the criteria, which explores the adaptation of the criteria to the new development context and landscape.
Day 2 Thursday 6 September
Opening session
Welcome Remarks [PDF]
Karen Rot-Munstermann, Acting Evaluator General, AfDB
Welcome Remarks Akinwumi Adesina, President, Afdb [PDF]
Pierre Guislain, Vice President, Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialization, AfDB, on behalf of President Adesina
Keynote: Aspirations for Africa - the role of evaluation and learning [PDF]
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa
Discussion: "Are we learning?"
Photos | Video recording
Moderator: Simon Mizrahi, Director, Delivery, Performance Management & Results, AfDB
Discussants:
- Per Øyvind Bastoe, Director, Norad Evaluation Department and Chairperson, OECD/DAC Evaluation Network
- Caroline Heider, Director General and Senior Vice President, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group
- Hanan Morsy, Director, Macroeconomic Forecasting and Research, AfDB
THEMATIC SESSION I: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Discussion I: Bringing down the barriers for PPPs
Moderator: Pierre Guislain, Vice President, Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialization, AfDB
Keynote: PPPs in Africa - current state and potential [presentation]
Caroline Heider, Director General and Senior Vice President, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group-
Presentation: What have we learned from AfDB PPP interventions? [presentation] - Foday Turay, Chief Evaluation Officer, Independent Development Evaluation, AfDB
Panel: Enablers and stumbling blocks for PPPs in Africa
- Isabelle Van Grunderbeeck, Head of Regional Representation for West Africa, Regional Office for West Africa, European Investment Bank
- Amadou Oumarou, Director, Infrastructure, Cities and Urban Development, AfDB
- Maude Vallee, Chief Legal Counsel, Acting Head of Operations, African Legal Support Facility
Discussion II: From lessons learned to action
Panel: What should we do for better PPP development results?
- Nana Asantewa Afadzinu, Executive Director, West Africa Civil Society Institute
- Fatima Hamdouch, Strategic Steering Director, Masen, Morocco [Presentation]
- Romain Neyrand, Chief Financial Officer, SOCOPRIM
Closing remarks: Key takeaways
Pierre Guislain, Vice President, Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialization, AfDB
Day 3 Friday 7 September
THEMATIC SESSION II: INCLUSION THROUGH AGRICULTURE
Discussion I: Challenges and opportunities for agricultural value chains in Africa
Moderator: Patrick Zimpita, Executive Director, AfDB
Keynote: Nutrition and Inclusion – A Multisectoral Approach [Presentation]
Wambui Gichuri, Director, Water & Sanitation, AfDB
Presentation: AfDB’s support to agricultural value chains development [Presentation]
Girma Kumbi, Principal Evaluation Officer, Independent Development Evaluation, AfDB
Panel: Agricultural value chains in Africa - challenges & opportunities
- Koffi Amegbeto, Senior Policy Officer, Regional Office for Africa, FAO
- Fabrizio Felloni, Deputy Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD
- Kodjo Kondo, Program Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation, AGRA
Discussion II: Towards inclusive value chain development
Moderator: Youssouf N’Djore, Director, Social Development, World Cocoa Foundation
Panel: Towards inclusive value chain development
- Aboegnonhou Chaldia Agossou, Seed Services, Benin
- Sibry Tapsoba, Director, Transition States Coordination, AfDB
- Enock Warinda, Theme Leader-Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, The Association for Strengthening of Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
Closing remarks: Key takeaways
- Fabrizio Felloni, Deputy Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD
- Wambui Gichuri, Director, Water & Sanitation, AfDB
THEMATIC SESSION III: PARTNERSHIPS FOR IMPACT IN AFRICA
Moderator: Catherine Cudré-Mauroux, Executive Director, AfDB
Keynote: Partnerships to advance supply, demand and use of evaluations [Presentation]
Michele Tarsilla, Regional Evaluation Adviser, UNICEF
Discussants
- Abdoulaye Gounou, Head of Office, Public Policy Evaluation and Analysis of Government Actions, Presidency, Republic of Benin / Chairperson, Twende Mbele initiative
- Abbas Imbassou Ouattara, Member of Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire and Executive Committee member, African Parliamentarians’ Network on Development Evaluation
- Adeline Sibanda, Chairperson, African Evaluation Association and International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation
- Laila Smith, Director, Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) Anglophone Africa
See Evaluation Matters Special Edition dedicated to Evaluation Week 2018