This webinar aims to present the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the independent evaluations of Quality Assurance (QA) across the Project Cycle, the Quality at Entry and Quality of Supervision of the African Development Bank Group, during 2012-2017. It discusses the challenges as well as the context for ensuring a robust QA framework for public and private sector development projects. It also reveals the best practices for project QA learned from both the Bank and other development organizations.
About the presenters
Akua Arthur-Kissi is a project/programs management expert and evaluator with more than fifteen years experience. At the Independent Development Evaluation Department (BDEV) of the African Development Bank, she has been working on corporate, country programs and thematic evaluations over the past 10 years. She led the evaluation on Supervision Quality, and also takes credit for her contributions to previous influential evaluations by BDEV: Budget administration, Procurement ,Paris Declaration Review and Fragile States evaluations of the Bank. Prior to joining BDEV Akua worked in the sector and country operations departments and the knowledge management unit of the Bank in various roles. She also worked briefly as a programs associate with HIV/AIDs Program for West and Central African by the German Technical Cooperation, GIZ in Accra (1997-1998).
Mònica Lomeña-Gelis is an environmentalist and evaluator with more than twelve years of professional experience in international development and development effectiveness in Latin America and Africa. She joined IDEV in 2017 and has managed the Country Strategy and Programme of Cabo Verde, the Quality Assurance Evaluation across the project cycle and the Evaluation of the Integrated Safeguards System of the Bank. Previously, she worked for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in Dakar, the Independent Evaluation Offices of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD).
Madhusoodhanan (Madhu) Mampuzhasseril is Chief Evaluation Officer of BDEV2, the division responsible for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Country and Corporate Evaluations. Since joining, the African Development Bank Madhu has led sector-level evaluations of health, education, and agriculture and rural development, corporate evaluations of the Bank’s decentralization strategy and process, as well as evaluation of the quality-at-entry of the African Development Fund (ADF) 2005-2008 operations and strategies. Madhu has also been instrumental in formative evaluation of the Bank’s quality assurance process across the project cycle.