How can we strengthen National M&E Systems so countries are more resilient and better prepared to build forward better?

The single session is designed to be a participatory and interactive session whereby the Evaluation Systems program at CLEAR-AA will share its experiences of implementing Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Building country programs across Anglophone Africa. CLEAR-AA currently implements M&E capacity building country programs in Tanzania; Uganda; Liberia; Malawi; Zambia; Lesotho; Namibia and Botswana. We have also done evaluation capacity building work in Madagascar. We seek to share lessons we have learnt about the state of M&E across these sub-Saharan Africa countries and the different forms the M&E ecosystems take in each country. Of course, the governance landscape is one of the key settings within which these M&E ecosystems have evolved over time. We are also planning to invite our county partners (public sector M&E oversight institutions and Voluntary Organisations for Professional Evaluation [VOPEs]). We hope the audience (M&E practitioners, governments, decision-makers, policy-makers and even the private sector) will learn from this single-session and also provide inputs on other best practices we can adopt into our M&E capacity strengthening country programs.