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ME Capacity Developmentin the AfCoP-MfDR and
the Case in Ethiopia

• Tamirat Yacob (tamiratyc_at_gmail.com)
• AfCoP ME CMT
• and
• Ministry of Finance and Economic Development,
  Ethiopia

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Outline

• MfDR and CoPs
• AfCoP
• Management and support of the AfCoP
• How the CoP functions
• Achievements as an AfCoP (results/impacts in the
  AfCoP)
• ME and Capacity Development in the AfCoP
• AfCoP and CAP Scan
• lessons on evaluation capacity development in
  Ethiopia
• Conclusion

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Managing for Development Results

• Managing for Development Results (MfDR) means
  focusing on development performance and on
  sustainable improvements in country outcomes
• MfDR principles focus the dialogue on results
  align programming, ME with results keep
  measurement and reporting simple Manage for ,not
  by, results Use results information for learning
  and decision making

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Community of Practice

• Community of Practice (CoP) is defined as an
  informal network group of people who share common
  sense of purpose and desire to exchange knowledge
  and experiences in an area of shared interest

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African Community of Practice on MfDR

• Two regional workshops organized by OECD/DAC and
  the Governments of Uganda and Burkina Faso in
  June 2006 gave a call for the creation of mutual
  learning opportunities.
• The African Community of Practice on Managing for
  Development Results (AfCoP-MfDR) launched in Feb.
  2007 at the third International Round Table in
  Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Vision of the AfCoP to facilitate good MfDR
  practices through information exchange and to
  provide capacity development opportunities for
  results management among countries on the African
  continent
• Mission of the AfCoP provide a platform for the
  exchange of experience and knowledge among
  practitioners who seek to develop and expand
  their capacity in MfDR

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AfCoP Members

• Member 500(580, June 2009)
• African Countries35
• Other countries 29
• Agencies/Donors 14
• Women 146
• Men429
• Languages 2

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Monitoring and Evaluation in the AfCoP

• Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Team
• Develop MfDR capacity of CoP members with the
  goal of enhancing country institutional
  capacities
• Monitoring and Evaluation Team
• Monitor and Evaluate policies and activities of
  the AfCoP based on the annual work plan

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ME Capacity Development in the AfCoP

• ME related discussions in the AfCoP
  (English/French)
• Integrated ME and MIS under the IRBM in 2008
• In 2009 discussion topics would include
• Evaluation of the impact of development
  policies/strategies
• Results-based evaluation
• New implications for monitoring and evaluation of
  programs and development projects under an MfDR
  approach
• Monitoring Evaluation using KPIs what are the
  pitfalls?

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Gaps in ME Capacity Development

• The AfCoP is not providing ME capacity building
  trainings as much as needed as resources are not
  abundant (hands on ME tools and methodologies
  trainings/workshops/forums are highly needed)
• ME knowledge and experience is so diverse among
  us
• We are more focused on discussions and less hands
  on experience in ME system designs to our
  members, etc
• Joint evaluation works experience shortage
• Available ME experts who can moderate and train
  people are not many
• Resources are not abundant in the AfCoP

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We seek for new partnership for ME CD in the
AfCoP

• ME, Statistics, Planning and budgeting,
  implementation capacities are weak in Africa
• AfCoPs Capacity is the mirror image of
  capacity in the continent
• How and What type of working partnerships?
• Increase the partnership of CoPs and related
  Networks (South-South and North-south)
• Learning by doing (participate in different
  assessment exercises and future works e.g. joint
  evaluation exercises)
• Trainings, workshops and forums to share
  experiences using existing platforms
• Experts in networks like this one and donor
  evaluation managers are welcomed to join and can
  train members, share their experience,

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ME Capacity Development in Ethiopia

• In Ethiopia development partners act like as a
  consortium called Development Assistance
  Group(DAG)
• 8 million USD has been put in place from the DAG
  for ME capacity development in the country for
  the PASDEP period (2005/06 2009/10)
• Welfare Monitoring System Program (ME system)
  since 1996
• Three main actors in the ME system
• Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
• Federal Executive bodies (line ministries) and,
• Central Statistical Agency (CSA)

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ME Capacity Devt in Ethiopia

• Sectoral ME systems education, road, health,
  water and sanitation in that order are relatively
  more systematized and well linked to the grass
  root level than the monitoring system for other
  sectors.
• Agricultures is weak and a lot is undergoing to
  improve it
• Agriculture Statistics working team
• Water and Sanitation ME system building
• The National Strategy for the Development of
  Statistics (NSDS) is to push the statistical
  capacity development agenda forward in Ethiopia

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ME Capacity Development in Ethiopia (continued)

• Capacity Development in the CSA
• Branch Networking for data collection and
  transfer to HQ
• Satellite mapping for agricultural surveys
• Data scanning mechanism/e.g. The 2007 National
  Population and Housing Census/
• National Strategy for the Development of
  Statistics (NSDS)
• - Quality assurance, the speed of analysis, along
  with the speed and network of dissemination

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Lessons learned in the ME systems of Ethiopia

• More emphasis to build the capacity of the
  sectoral ME systems of Agriculture and Water and
  Sanitation in Ethiopia
• Use of country systems by bilateral and
  multilateral donors is now increasing
• Emerging good practice The Aid Management
  Platform(AMP) system for better Aid management
  (The 2008 Third Source Book on good practice on
  MfDR, OECD and the WB)
• Existing Data source use has increased in
  preparation of Country Assistance Frameworks and
  country missions
• Country systems are now becoming strong and
  strong as lot of initiatives and capacity
  development has been going in the area in
  collaboration with development partners

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Conclusions

• The AfCoP plays a role in facilitating and
  exchanging ME CD initiatives for its member
  countries so it is advantages to make partnership
  and work together
• Financial, in kind and expert assistance are
  needed
• Countries should emphasise capacity develop of
  their weak ME systems in collaboration/jointly
  with donors
• Enhanced and coordinated effort is needed, (e.g.
  for better aid management) using country systems
  and manage for development results

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