WELCOME to Policy Making and Policy Implementation: The Role of Monitoring & Evaluation Practitioners

1. WELCOME toPolicy Making and Policy Implementation: The Role of Monitoring & EvaluationPractitioners Roundtable Discussion Presentation at the 1st SAMEA Conference March 29th 2007 Johannesburg, South Africa

2. Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Establishing responsibilities; you, me, us • Setting expectations and identifying objectives • ======================== • Presentation • Brief Q&A • ===================== • Group work • Group presentations to plenary • Closing remarks Florence Etta

3. Goal of Roundtable • To commence the interrogation of our roles in policy-making and implementation as a first step towards helping responsible policy making and implementation. • To promote public accountability. • To start a movement for the evaluation of our development. Florence Etta

4. Plan of Roundtable • 2 parts • Part1 Part 2 • Brief presentationGroup work • ExpectedOutput • A statement, possibly to be part of the conference communiqué • highlighting what we resolve to do within the ambit of SAMEA • to promote responsible policy making, implementation, evaluation and the evaluation of development Florence Etta

5. PART 1 Florence Etta

6. Policy Making and Policy Implementation: The Role of Monitoring & Evaluation Practitioners:What’s in a Name? • What do we call what we do? • Development Evaluation • OR • Evaluation of Development? • Is there any difference? • Is this difference important? Florence Etta

7. A New Model for Policy Making? • Yes and Why? • Development failures have come from Policy failures; • Listen to Soludo et al., Olukoshi and Soludo & Mkandawire, Ikiara et al. (See Handouts). Florence Etta

8. The Policy Process • What is this process? • Agenda setting • Policy Compilation • Policy Implementation • Policy Evaluation/Assessment/Review • Who is involved? • How? • To what effect/what are the outcomes of this involvement? Florence Etta

9. What to Do? • According to Soludo et al, • Study and understand the process • Interrogate and illuminate past failures • Different groups of participating stakeholders • need to be helped to: • “know their roles and to play these responsibly” Florence Etta

10. PART 2 Florence Etta

11. Group work • Select/identify a policy that you have been personally been involved in i.e. name it. • Group the results and then form a few policy themes. • Group individuals around these policy themes • Each group, discusses and evaluates their members’ participation in the policy making and how they would change it i.e. make participation and the policy outcomes better and how they would continue to contribute to monitoring that policy. • Present three 3 reasonable and feasible actions that your group recommends to SAMEA to promote the evaluation of OUR development. Florence Etta

12. Thank you for your attentionJust in case you wish to get in touchfeanywhere@yahoo.co.uk Florence Etta