The 9th African evaluation Association (AfrEA) International Conference "Accelerating Africa's Development: Strengthening National Evaluation Ecosystems" took place from March 11-15, 2019 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The conference was co-hosted by the Réseau Ivoirien de Suivi et d'Evaluation (RISE) and the Government of Cote D'Ivoire. The conference aime to:
- Support evaluations that contribute to real and sustained development in Africa
- Promote Africa-rooted and Africa-led evaluation through sharing African evaluation perspectives
- Encourage the development and documentation of high quality evaluation practice and theory
- Support the establishment and growth of national evaluation associations or VOPEs
- Facilitate capacity building, networking and sharing of evaluation theories, techniques and tools among evaluators, policymakers, researchers and development specialists.
The GEF Indepedent Evaluation Office participated in the following sessions:
- Climate Change Interventions: The Use of Evaluative Evidence for Sustainable Development: SDGs/Planning/Adaptation
Thursday, March 14 | Panel 2 on Climate Change, Adaptation, Vulnerability and Resilience: Evaluation and Learning
Chair:- Svetlana Negroustoueva
Panelists:
- Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer, GEF Independent Evaluation Office
- Nega Sharma
- Matthew Harris
- Detlev Puetz
- Climate Change Interventions: The Use of Evaluative Evidence for Sustainable Development: Water, Agriculture and Energy
Thursday, March 14 | Panel on Climate Knowledge in Theory and Practice
Chair:- Carlo Carugi, Senior Evaluation Officer, GEF Independent Evaluation Office