AfDB Joins the Center for Learning On Evaluation and Results (CLEAR)

2 March 2012
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African Development Bank (Abidjan)
press release
  • To host global forum in September 2012 in Tunis
  • Two regional centers in Africa:
  • University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Centre Africain d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG), Dakar, Sénégal
  • Will help AfDB RMCs avoid dependence on western international institutions for M&E and PM services, which are sometimes expensive and not customized to their specific needs

CLEAR is a global initiative aimed at strengthening developing countries' capacities in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and performance management (PM) to support results and evidence-based decision-making (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results). It aims to do so by (1) supporting regional centers to develop and provide high-quality applied in-region training, technical assistance, and evaluation and advisory services; and (2) providing global learning to produce innovative materials and enable practical knowledge-sharing on M&E and PM across regions.

The initiative is being supported by the African Development Bank, the Australian Agency for International Development, the Asian Development Bank, the Belgian Development Cooperation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Swedish International Development Agency, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, the UK Department for International Development, and the World Bank Group. The secretariat is housed in the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group.

CLEAR supports competitively selected regional institutions to host the centers. At present, there are five CLEAR centers and their partner organizations:

Region

Primary Center

Partner Organizations

Africa - Anglophone

University of Witwatersrand (WITs), Johannesburg, South Africa

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra, Ghana

Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA), Nairobi, Kenya

Africa - Francophone

Centre Africain d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG), Dakar, Sénégal

The International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2IE), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

East Asia and Pacific

Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Centre (AFDC), Shanghai, China

Latin America and the Caribbean

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México City, México

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico has been selected to host the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America

South Asia

Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia (JPSA) at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, India

Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), Lahore, Pakistan

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