Dr Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa is a senior lecturer, holding a PhD in Migration and Displacement from the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration and Society. She received an MA from the same institution, a BA from Wellesley college in International Relations and French, and a Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Stellenbosch in Monitoring and Evaluation. She is also the Research Director at the School.

She has worked as an evaluator in civil society, with Resilient Waters evaluating efforts to foster climate resilience in the Okavango and Limpopo river basins, as well as establishing learning systems with the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. She also worked with the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results, supporting efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems within public sector institutions across the region through peer learning.

Blaser Mapitsa’s research interests focus on two areas – the first is transboundary governance, of both land and people. She is interested in understanding what drives change in complex social and ecological systems, and which tools can best help us understand these changes. The second is on building contextually relevant evaluation approaches, and how evaluation can be a tool to align institutional practice with values systems and developmental objectives.

Introducing digitalisation to strengthen evaluation systems for democracy in African parliaments
Politikon
2023/01/02 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2023.2172531

Gender and Equity Considerations for Building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Rural and Periurban Botswana
Sustainability
2022/08 | journal-article
DOI: 10.3390/su141710599

A scoping review of intersections between indigenous knowledge systems and complexity-responsive evaluation research
African Evaluation Journal
2022/07 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v10i1.624
ISSN: 2306-5133

Namibian Experiences Establishing Community Fish Reserves
Land
2022/03 | journal-article
DOI: 10.3390/land11030420

A synthesis of parliamentary institutions and evidence use
African Parliaments Volume 2: Systems of Evidence in Practice
2022/02/11 | other
DOI: 10.52779/9781991201539/10

African Parliaments Volume 2: Systems of Evidence in Practice
2022/02/11 | book
DOI: 10.52779/9781991201539

Strengthening parliamentary capacity: What works and why?
African Parliaments Volume 2: Systems of Evidence in Practice
2022/02/11 | other
DOI: 10.52779/9781991201539/01

African Parliaments Volume 1: Evidence Systems for Governance and Development
2021/11 | book
DOI: 10.52779/9781991201454

Challenges and Opportunities to Citizen Engagement in Africa
African Parliaments Volume 1: Evidence Systems for Governance and Development
2021/11 | other
DOI: 10.52779/9781991201454/08

Parliamentary Evidence Use in Representation
African Parliaments Volume 1: Evidence Systems for Governance and Development
2021/11 | other
DOI: 10.52779/9781991201454/07

Evaluation without monitoring: old methods, new approaches
Development in Practice
2021/09/01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2021.1937529
ISSN: 0961-4524

Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape
Evidence & Policy
2021/08 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1332/174426421x16104826256918
ISSN: 1744-2648

Erratum: The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M&E for a sustainable future – Editorial
African Evaluation Journal
2021 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/AEJ.V9I1.579
EID: 2-s2.0-85126997872
ISSN: 23065133 23104988

Policies for evidence: A comparative analysis of Africa's national evaluation policy landscape
Evidence and Policy
2021 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1332/174426421X16104826256918
EID: 2-s2.0-85114413601
ISSN: 17442656 17442648

A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa
African Evaluation Journal
2020/11/30 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
ISSN: 2306-5133
ISSN: 2310-4988

The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M&E for a Sustainable Future – Editorial
African Evaluation Journal
2020/10 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v8i1.512
ISSN: 2306-5133

Enablers and constraints for data use in planning for mobility
Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review
2020/05/27 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/apsdpr.v8i1.284
ISSN: 2310-2152
ISSN: 2310-2195

From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments
Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2020/05/06 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1177/1035719x20918370
ISSN: 1035-719X

From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments
Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2020 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1177/1035719X20918370
EID: 2-s2.0-85084450106
ISBN: 25159372 1035719X

How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities
Evaluation and Program Planning
2020 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101831
EID: 2-s2.0-85086769325
ISBN: 01497189

Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africa
American Journal of Evaluation
2020 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1177/1098214019859652
EID: 2-s2.0-85073988364

Building the AfrED Database
Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
2019/09/01 | other
DOI: 10.18820/9781928480198/01

Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
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2019/09/01 | book
DOI: 10.18820/9781928480198
ISBN: 9781928480198

Indigenising Evaluation Knowledge: Exploring the Epistemic Identity of African Evaluators
Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
2019/09/01 | other
DOI: 10.18820/9781928480198/07

Learning or Complying? Finding Consensus on the Purpose of Evaluations
Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
2019/09/01 | other
DOI: 10.18820/9781928480198/02

The Utility of the AfrED Database
Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
2019/09/01 | other
DOI: 10.18820/9781928480198/09

Migration governance as place making: South African experiences
Journal of Place Management and Development
2019/08/05 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1108/jpmd-11-2017-0116
ISSN: 1753-8335

Can massive open online courses fill African evaluation capacity gaps?
African Evaluation Journal
2019/06/26 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v7i1.372
ISSN: 2306-5133
ISSN: 2310-4988

Managing and Imagining Migrant Communities
Africanus: Journal of Development Studies
2019/03/12 | journal-article
DOI: 10.25159/0304-615X/4527

Managing and Imagining Migrant Communities
Africanus: Journal of Development Studies
2019/03 | journal-article
DOI: 10.25159/0304-615x/4527
ISSN: 2663-6522

Institutionalising the evaluation function: A South African study of impartiality, use and cost
Evaluation and Program Planning
2019 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.04.005
EID: 2-s2.0-85065195764

Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility
SAGE Open
2019 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1177/2158244019829565
EID: 2-s2.0-85061638536

Migration governance as place making: South African experiences
Journal of Place Management and Development
2019 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1108/JPMD-11-2017-0116
EID: 2-s2.0-85061624145

Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa
African Evaluation Journal
2018 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
EID: 2-s2.0-85044716574

Local Politics of Xenophobia
Journal of Asian and African Studies
2018 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1177/0021909616662489
EID: 2-s2.0-85041375382

Reframing Social Cohesion: Lessons from Public Sector Evaluations
2018 | journal-article
SOURCE-WORK-ID: BASE:24af5e2ae9971909c5505f9147dda5ba96ae1da1f9ac6e240f1786bd026044ba
DOI: 10.1002/j.2573-508x.2018.tb000024.x

Designing diagnostics in complexity: Measuring technical and contextual aspects in monitoring and evaluation systems
African Evaluation Journal
2017 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v5i1.196
EID: 2-s2.0-85034732757

Gender responsiveness diagnostic of national monitoring and evaluation systems - Methodological reflections
African Evaluation Journal
2017 | journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/aej.v5i1.191
EID: 2-s2.0-85034787038