Conference strands

Eight thematic areas are identified as listed below and the strands under each of these areas is indicated in the table. The thematic areas are:

How to address climate change issues
Addressing inequality
Evaluation in an emergency – what that is doing to the demand for evaluation:
- demand for rapid evaluations (and doing internally)
- remote methods
- how technology can assist – and dealing with poor technology environment
- need for systems that support rapid methods to feedback into management
Fake news/nationalism/manipulation/governance
Emerging technologies for evaluation eg AI, big data/data science, text analytics
Made in Africa Evaluation/Africa-driven evaluation
Governance and evaluation systems
Achieving the Critical Milestones

#	Thematic area	Strand topic	Potential partner(s)
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1	How to address climate change issues.	Evaluation of climate-related interventions Bringing a climate lens into evaluation of any sector
2	Addressing inequality	Gender Responsive and Equity Focused Evaluation Evaluation of transformative initiatives Bringing an equity lens into evaluation of any sector Child/youth centred evaluations	UN Women/UNICEF/EvalGender/AGDEN SDG Transformation Forum
3	Evaluation in an emergency context	Evaluation in crisis, fragile and humanitarian settings (including COVID-19) (rapid evaluations, use of technology, adaptive management, learning and adjustment) Systems that support rapid methods to feedback into management (real time monitoring)	ALNAP
4	Avoiding manipulation of evidence	Evaluators navigating the political economy of evaluation in Africa > Promoting use of evaluation evidence in policy and practice Measuring use of evaluation evidence	African Union CLEAR
5	Emerging technologies	Digital technology and evaluation	Private sector
6	Made in Africa Evaluation	Made in Africa Evaluation	African Union, VOPEs who will participate in the USDS project (Made in Africa evaluation studies)
7	Governance and evaluation systems	Building an organisational culture of adaptive management, learning and adjustment) National evaluation systems Parliament and evaluation Young and emerging evaluators Building evaluation capacity in Africa Knowledge management in evaluation Policy evaluation (content, implementation and impact of policy)/use of evaluation for policy influence	UNICEF/UNDP, Twende Mbele TanEA, APNODE EvalYouth CLEAR
8	Achieving the critical milestones	Evaluation in philanthropy and impact investing Evaluation of Agenda 2063 Evaluation of SDGs	Africa Union Commission UNICEF, EvalSDGs, CLEAR-AA

10th Conference of the African Evaluation Association

Conference strands