WELCOME to Policy Making and Policy Implementation: The Role of Monitoring

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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

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Agenda

• Welcome Introductions
• Establishing responsibilities you, me, us
• Setting expectations and identifying objectives
• Presentation
• Brief QA
• Group work
• Group presentations to plenary
• Closing remarks

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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.

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Plan of Roundtable

• 2 parts
• Part1 Part 2
• Brief presentation Group work
• Expected Output
• 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

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PART 1
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Policy Making and Policy Implementation The Role
of Monitoring Evaluation Practitioners Whats
in a Name?

• What do we call what we do?
• Development Evaluation
• OR
• Evaluation of Development?
• Is there any difference?
• Is this difference important?

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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).

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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?

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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

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PART 2
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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.

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