Twende Mbele is a South-South peer learning partnership between four core African countries (i.e., Benin, Ghana, South Africa & Uganda) and two regional evaluation capacity development partners (CLEAR Anglophone Africa and IDEV, AfDB). Two other countries – Niger and Kenya – are collaborators though not yet full partners. The partnership aims to improve the performance and accountability of African governments’ service delivery by strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems, and thus aligns well with the AfDB's High 5s, the SDGs, and the AU's Agenda 2063.
Officially launched in 2017 at the African Evaluation Association Conference in Kampala, Uganda, the partnership focuses on knowledge sharing, peer learning and collaboration among African countries to build their M&E systems and as a result strengthen government performance and accountability to African citizens. Central to Twende Mbele is the desire to move beyond a network of people just sharing experience, toward a partnership where countries collaborate on developing specific elements of their M&E systems that improve government performance and impact on citizens.