Research Interests
Transboundary governance
Evaluation approaches
Associate Professor Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
Associate Professor
Qualifications
PhD (Wits), MA (Wits), BA (Wellesley), Postgraduate Diploma (Stellenbosch University)
Organisational Unit
Wits School of Governance
Biography
Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa is an Associtae Professor, 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.
Work
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
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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
Personal Information
Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
Websites and Profiles
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Works 69
Toggle ORCID item details From the Section Editors: The Center Shifts—Reflections on a Transforming Evaluation Landscape American Journal of Evaluation Journal Article
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- 2025-12
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- American Journal of Evaluation
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- https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140251370628
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Toggle ORCID item details Africa’s inequality cannot be solved by evaluation systems alone 2025-02-27 Book Chapter
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Toggle ORCID item details Evaluation process use in the University Capacity Development Programme at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v12i1.755
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Toggle ORCID item details From the Section Editors: International Advances in Evaluation American Journal of Evaluation Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Introducing digitalisation to strengthen evaluation systems for democracy in African parliaments Politikon Journal Article
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- M. Kgothatso Semela
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Toggle ORCID item details Gender and Equity Considerations for Building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Rural and Periurban Botswana Sustainability Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Gender and Equity Considerations for Building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Rural and Periurban Botswana Sustainability Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details A scoping review of intersections between indigenous knowledge systems and complexity-responsive evaluation research African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Namibian Experiences Establishing Community Fish Reserves Land Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details A synthesis of parliamentary institutions and evidence use African Parliaments Volume 2: Systems of Evidence in Practice Other
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Toggle ORCID item details Strengthening parliamentary capacity: What works and why? African Parliaments Volume 2: Systems of Evidence in Practice Other
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Toggle ORCID item details Challenges and Opportunities to Citizen Engagement in Africa African Parliaments Volume 1: Evidence Systems for Governance and Development Other
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Toggle ORCID item details Parliamentary Evidence Use in Representation African Parliaments Volume 1: Evidence Systems for Governance and Development Other
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Toggle ORCID item details Evaluation without monitoring: old methods, new approaches Development in Practice Journal Article
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- 0961-4524
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Mokgophana Ramasobana
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Toggle ORCID item details Evaluation without monitoring: old methods, new approaches Development in Practice Journal Article
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- 2022
- Journal title
- Development in Practice
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85114040663&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- DOI
- 10.1080/09614524.2021.1937529
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- 2-s2.0-85114040663
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- 13649213 09614524
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- @article{Blaser2022,title = {Evaluation without monitoring: old methods, new approaches},journal = {Development in Practice},year = {2022},volume = {32},number = {2},pages = {266-271},author = {Blaser Mapitsa, C. and Ramasobana, M.}}
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- Blaser Mapitsa, C.
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- Ramasobana, M.
Toggle ORCID item details Evaluation without monitoring: old methods, new approaches Development in Practice Journal Article
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- 2022-02-17
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- Development in Practice
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1937529
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- 10.1080/09614524.2021.1937529
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Mokgophana Ramasobana
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Toggle ORCID item details Policies for evidence: a comparative analysis of Africa’s national evaluation policy landscape Evidence & Policy Journal Article
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- 2021-08
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- Evidence & Policy
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- Journal Article
- DOI
- 10.1332/174426421x16104826256918
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- 1744-2648
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- Takunda J. Chirau
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa
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- Matodzi M. Amisi
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Toggle ORCID item details Policies for evidence: A comparative analysis of Africa's national evaluation policy landscape Evidence and Policy Journal Article
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- 2021
- Journal title
- Evidence and Policy
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85114413601&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- DOI
- 10.1332/174426421X16104826256918
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- 2-s2.0-85114413601
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- 17442656 17442648
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- @article{Blaser2021,title = {Policies for evidence: A comparative analysis of Africa{'}s national evaluation policy landscape},journal = {Evidence and Policy},year = {2021},volume = {17},number = {3},pages = {535-548},author = {Chirau, T.J. and Blaser-Mapitsa, C. and Amisi, M.M.}}
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- Chirau, T.J.
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- Blaser-Mapitsa, C.
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- Amisi, M.M.
Toggle ORCID item details Erratum: The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M&E for a sustainable future – Editorial African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2021
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85126997872&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- DOI
- 10.4102/AEJ.V9I1.579
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- 2-s2.0-85126997872
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- 23065133 23104988
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- bibtex
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- @article{Blaser2021,title = {Erratum: The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M\&E for a sustainable future ? Editorial},journal = {African Evaluation Journal},year = {2021},volume = {9},number = {1},author = {Abrahams, M. and Amisi, M. and Hartley, C.H. and Blaser-Mapitsa, C. and Sch{\"o}er, V. and Pophiwa, N.}}
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- Abrahams, M.
- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Amisi, M.
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- Hartley, C.H.
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- Blaser-Mapitsa, C.
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- Schöer, V.
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- Pophiwa, N.
Toggle ORCID item details A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2020-11-30
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
- Type
- Journal Article
- URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
- DOI
- 10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
- ISSN
- 2306-5133
- ISSN
- 2310-4988
- Short Description
- <jats:p>vidence for policy-informed decision-making, budgeting and programming. National evaluation systems (NESs) are being set up across Africa, together with the processes and other monitoring and evaluation (ME) infrastructure for efficient and effective functioning.Objectives: This article seeks to document comparative developments in the growth of systems in Anglophone African countries, and provide an understanding of these systems for capacity-development interventions in these countries. It also aims to contribute to the public debate on the development of national ME systems, institutionalisation of evaluation, and use of ME evidence in the larger African context.Methods: This article uses four key dimensions as the conceptual framework of a national monitoring and evaluation system, including monitoring and evaluation systems in the executive; the functioning of parliamentary ME systems; professionalisation of evaluation and existence of an enabling environment. A questionnaire was used to collect information based on the key dimensions from government and non-governmental personnel. The Mo Ibrahim index of 2018 was used to collect information on enabling environment.Results: Findings indicate that all systems have stakeholders with different roles and contexts and are designed according to the state architecture, prevailing resources and capacities.Conclusions: This article concludes that the findings can be used as different entry points for developing and strengthening ME capacities in countries studied.</jats:p>
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- @article{Chirau_2020, doi = {10.4102/aej.v8i1.504}, url = {https://doi.org/10.4102%2Faej.v8i1.504}, year = 2020, month = {nov}, publisher = {{AOSIS}}, volume = {8}, number = {1}, author = {Takunda Chirau and Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa and Matodzi Amisi and Banele Masilela and Ayabulela Dlakavu}, title = {A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa}, journal = {African Evaluation Journal}}
Toggle ORCID item details A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa 2020 Journal Article
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- 2020
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
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- BASE:88fcf1ebe064a5c96510699faaf4781caed15a40f3b3a6394388f211d277ce98
- DOI
- 10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
- Short Description
- vidence for policy-informed decision-making, budgeting and programming. National evaluation systems (NESs) are being set up across Africa, together with the processes and other monitoring and evaluation (ME) infrastructure for efficient and effective functioning. Objectives: This article seeks to document comparative developments in the growth of systems in Anglophone African countries, and provide an understanding of these systems for capacity-development interventions in these countries. It also aims to contribute to the public debate on the development of national ME systems, institutionalisation of evaluation, and use of ME evidence in the larger African context. Methods: This article uses four key dimensions as the conceptual framework of a national monitoring and evaluation system, including monitoring and evaluation systems in the executive; the functioning of parliamentary ME systems; professionalisation of evaluation and existence of an enabling environment. A questionnaire was used to collect information based on the key dimensions from government and non-governmental personnel. The Mo Ibrahim index of 2018 was used to collect information on enabling environment. Results: Findings indicate that all systems have stakeholders with different roles and contexts and are designed according to the state architecture, prevailing resources and capacities. Conclusions: This article concludes that the findings can be used as different entry points for developing and strengthening ME capacities in countries studied.
- Contributors Contributor 0 Credit Name
- Takunda Chirau
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Matodzi Amisi
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- Contributors Contributor 3 Credit Name
- Banele Masilela
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- Ayabulela Dlakavu
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Toggle ORCID item details A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2020-11
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
- DOI
- 10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
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- 2306-5133
- Contributors Contributor 0 Credit Name
- Takunda Chirau
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Matodzi Amisi
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- Contributors Contributor 3 Credit Name
- Banele Masilela
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- Contributors Contributor 4 Credit Name
- Ayabulela Dlakavu
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Toggle ORCID item details A stakeholder view of the development of national evaluation systems in Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2020-11-30
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
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- 10.4102/aej.v8i1.504
- Contributors Contributor 0 Credit Name
- Takunda Chirau
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Matodzi Amisi
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- Contributors Contributor 3 Credit Name
- Banele Masilela
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- Contributors Contributor 4 Credit Name
- Ayabulela Dlakavu
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Toggle ORCID item details The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M&E for a Sustainable Future – Editorial African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2020-10
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
- DOI
- 10.4102/aej.v8i1.512
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- 2306-5133
- Contributors Contributor 0 Credit Name
- Mark Abrahams
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Matodzi Amisi
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- Cara H. Hartley
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- Contributors Contributor 3 Credit Name
- Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa
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- Contributors Contributor 4 Credit Name
- Volker Schoër
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- Nedson Pophiwa
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Toggle ORCID item details Erratum: “The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M&E for a sustainable future – Editorial” (African Evaluation Journal, (2019), 8(1) (a512), (10.4102/aej.v8i1.512)) African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2021
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- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85124337182&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.4102/aej.v8i1.512
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- 2-s2.0-85124337182
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- 23065133 23104988
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- @article{Blaser2021,title = {Erratum: ?The Seventh Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association Conference 2019: Shaping M\&E for a sustainable future ? Editorial? (African Evaluation Journal, (2019), 8(1) (a512), (10.4102/aej.v8i1.512))},journal = {African Evaluation Journal},year = {2021},volume = {8},number = {1},author = {Abrahams, M. and Amisi, M. and Hartley, C.H. and Blaser-Mapitsa, C. and Scho{\"e}r, V. and Pophiwa, N.}}
- Contributors Contributor 0 Credit Name
- Abrahams, M.
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- Amisi, M.
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- Hartley, C.H.
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- Blaser-Mapitsa, C.
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- Schoër, V.
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- Pophiwa, N.
Toggle ORCID item details Enablers and constraints for data use in planning for mobility Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2020-05-27
- Journal title
- Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/apsdpr.v8i1.284
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- 10.4102/apsdpr.v8i1.284
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- 2310-2152
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- 2310-2195
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- @article{Mapitsa_2020, doi = {10.4102/apsdpr.v8i1.284}, url = {https://doi.org/10.4102%2Fapsdpr.v8i1.284}, year = 2020, month = {may}, publisher = {{AOSIS}}, volume = {8}, number = {1}, author = {Caitlin B. Mapitsa}, title = {Enablers and constraints for data use in planning for mobility}, journal = {Africa's Public Service Delivery and Performance Review}}
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Toggle ORCID item details From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments Evaluation Journal of Australasia Journal Article
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- 2020
- Journal title
- Evaluation Journal of Australasia
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85084450106&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1177/1035719X20918370
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- 2-s2.0-85084450106
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- 25159372 1035719X
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- @article{Blaser2020,title = {From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments},journal = {Evaluation Journal of Australasia},year = {2020},volume = {20},number = {2},pages = {68-85},author = {Blaser Mapitsa, C. and Ali, A.J. and Khumalo, L.S.}}
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- Blaser Mapitsa, C.
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- Ali, A.J.
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- Khumalo, L.S.
Toggle ORCID item details From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments Evaluation Journal of Australasia Journal Article
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- 2020-05-06
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- Evaluation Journal of Australasia
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- Journal Article
- DOI
- 10.1177/1035719x20918370
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- 1035-719X
- Contributors Contributor 0 Credit Name
- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Contributors Contributor 1 Credit Name
- Aisha Jore Ali
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- Linda Sibonile Khumalo
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Toggle ORCID item details From evidence to values-based decision making in African parliaments Evaluation Journal of Australasia Journal Article
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- 2020-06
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- Evaluation Journal of Australasia
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X20918370
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- 10.1177/1035719X20918370
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Aisha Jore Ali
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- Contributors Contributor 2 Credit Name
- Linda Sibonile Khumalo
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Toggle ORCID item details How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities Evaluation and Program Planning Journal Article
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- 2020
- Journal title
- Evaluation and Program Planning
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85086769325&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101831
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- 2-s2.0-85086769325
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- 01497189
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- @article{Blaser2020,title = {How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities},journal = {Evaluation and Program Planning},year = {2020},volume = {82},author = {Chirau, T.J. and Blaser-Mapitsa, C.}}
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- Chirau, T.J.
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- Blaser-Mapitsa, C.
Toggle ORCID item details How performance management regulations shape evaluation practice in South African municipalities Evaluation and Program Planning Journal Article
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- 2020-10
- Journal title
- Evaluation and Program Planning
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- Journal Article
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101831
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- 0149-7189
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- Takunda J. Chirau
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- Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africa American Journal of Evaluation Journal Article
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- 2020
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- American Journal of Evaluation
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85073988364&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1177/1098214019859652
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- 2-s2.0-85073988364
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- @article{Blaser2020,title = {Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africa},journal = {American Journal of Evaluation},year = {2020},volume = {41},number = {3},pages = {404-419},author = {Mapitsa, C.B. and Ngwato, T.P.}}
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- Mapitsa, C.B.
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- Ngwato, T.P.
Toggle ORCID item details Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africa 2019 Journal Article
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- 2019
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214019859652
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- BASE:77bdee87488e38a23221bed25f95bb8d54f6aa149c1aaa0f7ed2425d34b6f557
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- 10.1177/1098214019859652
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- As global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the ambit of ethical protection thinking and proposes a relational ethics approach for evaluation practitioners. This centers an analysis of power relations among and within all the different stakeholder groups in order to establish, in a context-specific manner, which stakeholders are vulnerable and in need of protection. The approach also contextualizes the nature of “the public good,” as part of an ethical consideration of interest trade-offs during evaluations. The discussion is informed by our experiences in African contexts and speaks to the “Made in Africa” research agenda but is also relevant to other global contexts where alternatives to “developed country” ontological assumptions about the roles of researchers and participations and the nature of vulnerability are being reconsidered.
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- Mapitsa, Caitlin Blaser
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- Ngwato, Tara Polzer
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Toggle ORCID item details Building the AfrED Database Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity Other
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- 2019-09-01
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- Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
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- Other
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- 10.18820/9781928480198/01
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity [] Book
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- 2019-09-01
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928480198
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- 10.18820/9781928480198
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- 9781928480198
Toggle ORCID item details Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity 2019-09-01 Book
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- 2019-09-01
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- Book
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- 10.18820/9781928480198
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- Precious Tirivanhu
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Toggle ORCID item details Indigenising Evaluation Knowledge: Exploring the Epistemic Identity of African Evaluators Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity Other
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- 2019-09-01
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- Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
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- Other
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- 10.18820/9781928480198/07
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- Precious Tirivanhu
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Learning or Complying? Finding Consensus on the Purpose of Evaluations Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity Other
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- 2019-09-01
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- Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
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- Other
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- 10.18820/9781928480198/02
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Khotso Tsotsotso
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Toggle ORCID item details The Utility of the AfrED Database Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity Other
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- 2019-09-01
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- Evaluation Landscape in Africa: Context, Methods and Capacity
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- Other
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- 10.18820/9781928480198/09
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Can massive open online courses fill African evaluation capacity gaps? African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2019-06-26
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- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/aej.v7i1.372
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- 10.4102/aej.v7i1.372
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- 2306-5133
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- 2310-4988
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Toggle ORCID item details Can massive open online courses fill African evaluation capacity gaps? African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2019
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- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85068088890&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.4102/aej.v7i1.372
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- 2-s2.0-85068088890
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- 23065133 23104988
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- @article{Blaser2019,title = {Can massive open online courses fill African evaluation capacity gaps?},journal = {African Evaluation Journal},year = {2019},volume = {7},number = {1},author = {Mapitsa, C.B. and Khumalo, L. and Engel, H. and Wooldridge, D.}}
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- Mapitsa, C.B.
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- Khumalo, L.
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- Engel, H.
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- Wooldridge, D.
Toggle ORCID item details Managing and Imagining Migrant Communities Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Journal Article
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- 2019-03
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- Africanus: Journal of Development Studies
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- Journal Article
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- 10.25159/0304-615x/4527
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- 2663-6522
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Managing and Imagining Migrant Communities Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Journal Article
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- Africanus: Journal of Development Studies
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.25159/0304-615X/4527
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- 10.25159/0304-615X/4527
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Institutionalising the evaluation function: A South African study of impartiality, use and cost Evaluation and Program Planning Journal Article
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- 2019
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- Evaluation and Program Planning
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85065195764&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.04.005
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2019,title = {Institutionalising the evaluation function: A South African study of impartiality, use and cost},journal = {Evaluation and Program Planning},year = {2019},volume = {75},pages = {38-42},author = {Blaser Mapitsa, C. and Chirau, T.J.}}
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- Blaser Mapitsa, C.
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- Chirau, T.J.
Toggle ORCID item details Institutionalising the evaluation function: A South African study of impartiality, use and cost Evaluation and Program Planning Journal Article
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- 2019-08
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- Evaluation and Program Planning
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- Journal Article
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- 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.04.005
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- 0149-7189
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Takunda J. Chirau
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Toggle ORCID item details Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility SAGE Open Journal Article
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- 2019
- Journal title
- SAGE Open
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85061638536&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1177/2158244019829565
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2019,title = {Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility},journal = {SAGE Open},year = {2019},volume = {9},number = {1},author = {Blaser Mapitsa, C. and Landau, L.}}
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- Blaser Mapitsa, C.
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- Landau, L.
Toggle ORCID item details Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility 2019 Journal Article
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- 2019
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019829565
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- BASE:3834df818e81d0ce7d1350341ae0670f1b7c81d534fb6eb24551237017d7efd5
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- 10.1177/2158244019829565
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- Mobility and urbanization are shaping cities in Southern Africa. Peri-urban areas in particular are transforming at such a pace that municipalities are struggling to keep up with the changes. Local government is trying to build appropriate capacity to respond to a mobile population, but it is not always clear where to focus capacity development efforts. Applying a diagnostic tool on local government capacity to respond to mobility, researchers both tested the tool and drew conclusions about the capacity of local government. This provides lessons for both how we measure the readiness of municipalities to respond to a mobile population and how we may focus capacity-building efforts.
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Loren Landau
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Toggle ORCID item details Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility SAGE Open Journal Article
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- 2019-02
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- SAGE Open
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- Journal Article
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- 10.1177/2158244019829565
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- 2158-2440
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Loren Landau
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Toggle ORCID item details Measuring Municipal Capacity to Respond to Mobility Sage Open Journal Article
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- 2019-01
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- Sage Open
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019829565
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- 10.1177/2158244019829565
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Loren Landau
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Toggle ORCID item details Migration governance as place making: South African experiences Journal of Place Management and Development Journal Article
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- 2019
- Journal title
- Journal of Place Management and Development
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85061624145&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1108/JPMD-11-2017-0116
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- 2-s2.0-85061624145
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2019,title = {Migration governance as place making: South African experiences},journal = {Journal of Place Management and Development},year = {2019},volume = {12},number = {3},pages = {391-407},author = {Blaser Mapitsa, C.}}
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- Blaser Mapitsa, C.
Toggle ORCID item details Migration governance as place making: South African experiences Journal of Place Management and Development Journal Article
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- 2019-08-05
- Journal title
- Journal of Place Management and Development
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- Journal Article
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- 10.1108/jpmd-11-2017-0116
- ISSN
- 1753-8335
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2018
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85044716574&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
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- 2-s2.0-85044716574
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2018,title = {Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa},journal = {African Evaluation Journal},year = {2018},volume = {6},number = {1},author = {Mapitsa, C.B. and Khumalo, L.}}
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- Mapitsa, C.B.
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- Khumalo, L.
Toggle ORCID item details Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa 2018 Journal Article
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- 2018
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
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- BASE:66fba8de73e58bb4ba5aa3a5130999a84d229098b0d70b3aad06eb217fb5db1d
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- 10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
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- Background: Since 2015, the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results-Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) has implemented more than seven diagnostic tools to better understand monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems in the region. Through the process of adapting global tools to make them more appropriate to an African context, CLEAR-AA has learned several lessons about contextually relevant definitions and boundaries of M&E systems. Objectives: This article aims to share lessons learned from adapting and implementing a range of global tools in an African context, and puts forward certain key criteria for a ‘Made in Africa’ tool to better understand M&E systems in the region. Method: This article reviews CLEAR-AA’s diagnostic tools, as well as global good practice diagnostic tools, and compares the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. It further looks at the implementation of specific tools in context and proposes components on the basis of these lessons. Results: This review has found that most M&E tools have a heavy focus on the technical and contextual aspects of M&E but very few do a thorough job of accommodating the institutional factors. Furthermore, the relationship between the technical elements, the institutional elements and the organisational culture elements has not been made apparent. Conclusion: A contextually relevant diagnostic tool for M&E systems will balance technical considerations of capacity, institutional factors and issues of organisational culture. Drawing on approaches from organisational change may be of help to strengthen our tool development endeavours.
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Linda Khumalo
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Toggle ORCID item details Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2018-03
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- 10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
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- 2306-5133
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Linda Khumalo
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Toggle ORCID item details Diagnosing monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2018-03-29
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
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- 10.4102/aej.v6i1.255
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Linda Khumalo
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Toggle ORCID item details Local Politics of Xenophobia Journal of Asian and African Studies Journal Article
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- 2018
- Journal title
- Journal of Asian and African Studies
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85041375382&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.1177/0021909616662489
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- 2-s2.0-85041375382
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2018,title = {Local Politics of Xenophobia},journal = {Journal of Asian and African Studies},year = {2018},volume = {53},number = {1},pages = {3-19},author = {Blaser Mapitsa, C.}}
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- Blaser Mapitsa, C.
Toggle ORCID item details Local Politics of Xenophobia Journal of Asian and African Studies Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2016-08
- Journal title
- Journal of Asian and African Studies
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- Journal Article
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- 10.1177/0021909616662489
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- 0021-9096
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Reframing Social Cohesion: Lessons from Public Sector Evaluations 2018 Journal Article
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- 2018
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2573-508x.2018.tb000024.x
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- BASE:24af5e2ae9971909c5505f9147dda5ba96ae1da1f9ac6e240f1786bd026044ba
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- 10.1002/j.2573-508x.2018.tb000024.x
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- Mapitsa, Caitlin Blaser
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Toggle ORCID item details Designing diagnostics in complexity: Measuring technical and contextual aspects in monitoring and evaluation systems African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2017
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85034732757&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.4102/aej.v5i1.196
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- 2-s2.0-85034732757
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2017,title = {Designing diagnostics in complexity: Measuring technical and contextual aspects in monitoring and evaluation systems},journal = {African Evaluation Journal},year = {2017},volume = {5},number = {1},author = {Mapitsa, C.B. and Korth, M.T.}}
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- Mapitsa, C.B.
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- Korth, M.T.
Toggle ORCID item details Designing diagnostics in complexity: Measuring technical and contextual aspects in monitoring and evaluation systems African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2017-04
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- 10.4102/aej.v5i1.196
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- 2306-5133
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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- Marcel T. Korth
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Toggle ORCID item details Gender responsiveness diagnostic of national monitoring and evaluation systems - Methodological reflections African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2017
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85034787038&partnerID=MN8TOARS
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- 10.4102/aej.v5i1.191
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- 2-s2.0-85034787038
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- @article{Blaser Mapitsa2017,title = {Gender responsiveness diagnostic of national monitoring and evaluation systems - Methodological reflections},journal = {African Evaluation Journal},year = {2017},volume = {5},number = {1},author = {Jansen van Rensburg, M.S. and Mapitsa, C.B.}}
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- Jansen van Rensburg, M.S.
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- Mapitsa, C.B.
Toggle ORCID item details Gender responsiveness diagnostic of national monitoring and evaluation systems – methodological reflections 2017 Journal Article
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- 2017
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.4102/aej.v5i1.191
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- 10.4102/aej.v5i1.191
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- Background: This article reflects on the implementation of a diagnostic study carried out to understand the gender responsiveness of the national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of Benin, South Africa and Uganda. Carrying out the study found that the potential for integrating the cross-cutting systems of gender and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are strong. At the same time, it highlighted a range of challenges intersecting these two areas of work. This article explores these issues, which range from logistical to conceptual. Objectives: This article aims to share reflections from the gender diagnostic study to enable more appropriate capacity building in the field of gender responsiveness in national M&E systems. Developing more sophisticated tools to measure gender responsiveness in complex contexts is critical. A better understanding of how gender and national M&E systems intersect is important to understanding firstly how we can more accurately measure the gender responsiveness of existing systems and secondly how better to engender capacity development initiatives. Method: As part of the Twende Mbele programme, Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) commissioned Africa Gender and Development Evaluator’s Network (AGDEN) to coordinate teams of researchers in Benin, Uganda, and South Africa to collaboratively develop the diagnostic tool, and then implement it by conducting a review of key documentation and to interview officials within the government wide monitoring and evaluation systems as well as the national gender machinery in each country. Results: The study found that the gender responsiveness of M&E systems across all three systems was unequal, but more importantly, it is important to do more work on how M&E and gender are conceptualised, to ensure this can be studied in a more meaningful way. To strengthen national monitoring and evaluation systems, gender responsiveness and equity must serve as a foundation for growth. However, intersection M&E with gender is complex, and riddled with gaps in capacity, conceptual differences, and challenges bringing together disparate and complex systems. Conclusion: A stronger understanding of the linkages between M&E and gender is an important starting place for bringing them together holistically.
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- Madri S. Jansen van Rensburg
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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Toggle ORCID item details Gender responsiveness diagnostic of national monitoring and evaluation systems – methodological reflections African Evaluation Journal Journal Article
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- 2017-04
- Journal title
- African Evaluation Journal
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- Journal Article
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- 10.4102/aej.v5i1.191
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- 2306-5133
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- Madri S. Jansen van Rensburg
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- Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa
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