Blogs
By Mark Abrahams (Southern Hemisphere)
Beyond Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE)— An Invitation to Join Us on a Journey.
At Southern Hemisphere we often utilise the ‘journey metaphor’ when discussing the elements of a project cycle and mapping the evaluation journey. Similarly, you are invited to consider a journey, your journey beyond Made in Africa Evaluation. The quest for evaluation manifestations beyond Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) is not an exhortation to dismiss the need for MAE or to deny the historical and contemporary developments that continue to shape the nature of evaluation theories and practices in Africa.
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A new generation of emerging evaluators join WFP in Johannesburg
THEY ARE YOUNG, TALENTED AND READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Meet Yeukai Caroline Tizora, Isabel Malandu Mukali, Mayibongwe Mncube, Stephan Paulsen, Sonny Motlanthe and Samukelisiwe Mkhize.
ReadBy Benita Williams
EduCOVID TIG 2020
On 13 May 2020, SAMEA launched the EduCOVID Topical Interest Group via zoom. The TIG was initiated by SAMEA volunteers, so that M&E practitioners could talk to others and consider how they can support the education sector response to the COVID-19. The initiative was supported by the SAMEA secretariat and members of the SAMEA board. The EduCOVID TIG was open to SAMEA members and non-members and some cross-linkages with the BRIDGE M&E Community of practice were established.
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Conducting Online Focus Group Discussions during health crisis: Facilitator’s and Evaluator’s Reflections
Use of Online Focus Groups Discussions (FGD) has expanded over the past months, as well as in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) field since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although guidelines on how to successfully conduct online focus groups might have been issued and published elsewhere, this blog focuses on my experiences and reflections in conducting online FGD during the times of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.
ReadBy Benita Williams
Launch: Evaluation Hackathon- 27 August to 1 October 2020
Schools are back, and slowly the support projects implemented by NGOs and other partners are getting back on track. Except, everything is different. Now, evaluators need to take into account a range of COVID-19 related contextual variables when evaluating initiatives in schools. Come and join the EduCOVID TIG Evaluation Hackathon, where we will develop joint indicators and tools to answer common evaluation questions.
ReadBy Daleen Botha & Takalani Muloiwa
Education, inequality & innovation in the time of COVID-19
The third EduCOVID TIG meeting, held on 22 of July 2020, was hosted by Benita Williams (Benita Williams Evaluations) and Takalani Muloiwa (Wits University) on the topic ‘Education, inequality and innovation in the time of COVID-19’.
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A Great EduCOVID TIG Resource
Have you read the newspaper reports about the release of the NIDS-CRAM Wave 1 research? The National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) is a broadly nationally-representative panel survey of 7,000 South African individuals conducted every month.
ReadBy Tikwiza Silubonde, Benita Williams
EduCOVID TIG Meet Reflection: Learning Briefs as tool to support EduCOVID response
In the second EduCOVID TIG meeting, held on 2 July, Ms. Tikwiza Silubonde from Stellenbosch University facilitated a TIG webinar on "Learning Briefs as a tool to support EduCOVID response". The recording of the meeting together with the presentations can be found here.
ReadBy Dr Lorraine Marneweck,Ms Gina Ermacora
Virtual Coaching in the Early Grade Reading Study (Mpumalanga)
This Blog was written Dr Lorraine Marneweck, Programme Director and Ms Gina Ermacora, Virtual Coach from ClassAct in June 2020. It is relevant to the EduCOVID TIG as much of our work is becoming virtual.
ReadBy Melissa King (BRIDGE) and Benita Williams
Reflections from the BRIDGE M&E Community of Practice meeting held on 27 May 2020
BRIDGE Innovation in Education Organization convened an M&E Community of Practice meeting, with its partners SAMEA, Khulisa and Tshikululu. The topic of the meeting was “The impact of Covid-19 on M&E in Education”
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