Moderator
- Saltanat Rasulova, UNDP IEO, Regional Evaluation Adviser for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Panelists
- Dongwan Yang, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce, China, Assistant Researcher
- Erdenechimeg Ulziisuren, Mongolian Evaluation Association, Mongolia, Founder and President
- Joseph Muserero, Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda, Information Scientist
- Melvy Kekana, Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa, Deputy Director
- Otmane Gair, National Observatory for Human Development, Morocco, President
Discussion Themes
- Utilizing local cultural elements and tools that are adaptable to evaluative practices yields better citizen engagement in the feedback loops for accountability and performance.
- End-user engagement in the feedback loop enhances citizens’ trust in institutions and improves the quality of services.
- Inclusive evaluations can also guide reform agendas and sensitize the social climate around the planned reforms, as was the case in Morocco during teacher strikes when evaluation was used to understand gaps in the design and implementation of public education reforms.
- Learning from China’s foreign aid projects demonstrated that the involvement of stakeholders and citizen participation must go beyond data collection and analysis and should also be ensured during programme design and implementation.
- Collective human rights (such as the right to have a collective opinion, to congregate, to protest, etc.) are the bedrock of processes of participation and inclusion.
“Participation of multiple stakeholders in the evaluation process often occurs after the completion of the project or during the feasibility study phase. Their involvement should also be emphasized during project initiation and implementation.”
Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce
“We translated the OECD-DAC [OECD Development Assistance Committee] criteria, and one of the criteria is relevance. Before, relevance was only understood as ‘is this intervention relevant to your national big policy’? Now it’s going further: Is your intervention relevant to the needs of these local people?”
Mongolian Evaluation Association
“We saw immediate adjustments during COVID, like eliminating the SMS-based system directing people to vaccine sites because of challenges identified through real-time feedback on the ground.”
Government of South Africa
