The first South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) conference has been presented as part of SAMEA’s mission to cultivate a vibrant community that supports, guides and strengthens the development of monitoring and evaluation in South Africa. The conference provided a platform for interaction and information-sharing among all those interested in monitoring and evaluation.

Pre-conference professional development workshops

Aims of the conference

To bring together monitoring and evaluation specialists and users as part of SAMEA’s mandate to promote the development of M&E thinking and practice in South Africa

To provide an opportunity for M&E specialists to take stock of what others are doing in the field and to provide an opportunity for participants to understand the state of development of M&E in South Africa

To stimulate debate and research around M&E practice and its role in the society, given the specific development and service delivery challenges in South Africa

To promote the integration of theory and practice in M&E

To publicise the existence of SAMEA and to promote its national and international profile

Conference theme
The conference convened under the theme ‘Monitoring and Evaluation in Action’.

Within this broad theme we focused on: the utilization of M&E practices and findings in programme development, management and implementation; knowledge management within organizations and programmes; the challenges of building evaluation systems for tiered, multi-sectoral and multi-partnered programmes; and building evaluation capacity. Pre-conference professional development workshops were held over 26 - 28 March 2007.

Conference programme

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