EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR NIGER REPUBLIC Dr TARINGUE WAZIRI GAMBO

BACKGROUND Long ago Nigerien authorities are working to improve the daily management of their fellow citizens, particularly through an ongoing search tools and development strategies. That is why all plans, programs and other forms of actions to improve the lives of Niger people were of a major concern to the government 2

1,THE ASSESSMENT 1 1,THE ASSESSMENT 1 Today the assessment has taken great importance both nationally and internationally with the requirement of good governance and results-based management that rely on research of the effectiveness of development actions. Studies conducted by a number of institutions including those of the United Nations have had to contribute to the reinforcement of evaluative capabilities of manpower in our countries. 3

2. EVALUATIVE PRACTICE 2.1. Existence of evaluative practice  66.7% of structures sampled in this study reported having performed the assessment often or always; 14% of the sample rarely practiced and 19.3% have never practiced. That is to say that, in Niger there is indeed a practice of evaluation in the broadest sense of the term, but its content and its terms are composite and plural;  Ministries practice evaluating less than other structures (NGOs, PTF, programs and projects, civil society,...). Yet, the Ministries have formal structures whose responsibilities include the monitoring and evaluation activities. About 35.10% of the structures that still practice evaluation, only 7% of the Ministries. ) % of the structures that never practice evaluation, 10.5% are from the Ministries; 4

The evaluation criteria As evaluation criteria include:  good project resources or management of the program to see if they have not been diverted to special personal purposes;  consumer loans on time to qualify for the following disbursements or not to see decrease the budget allocation for the coming year;  effective operations to verify the achievement of objectives as planned. Relevance issues, efficiency, distant impacts of the project or program are rarely cited as evaluation questions. The evaluation process thus appears as a formality to access funding or to maintain funding or to meet conditionality. 5

3. SYSTEM ANALYSIS 3.1. Strengths of the System As strengths are:  The existence, despite the shortcomings that characterize it, a legal arsenal (texts determining the monitoring and evaluation missions and sometimes specifying the mechanisms to implement) on monitoring and evaluation of policies, development programs and projects;  Consideration, at the legislative level, the results-based management (RBM) and monitoring and evaluation by Law No of 8 August 2011 determining the general organization of state administration and fixing his missions;  The creation in 2014 of a new Office of Public Policy Evaluation; 6

3.2. System weaknesses As weakness is retained among others;  The lack of financial resources allocated to monitoring and evaluation function and weak human resources skills in the area of ​​monitoring and evaluation;  Collaboration difficulties sometimes by DEP with the cells in charge of M & E in projects under their supervision, reflected in particular by insufficient lift and / or late data collected and processed by the projects;  Inadequate coordination between the different structures of ministries in monitoring operations, partly because of some conflicts of competence with the technical departments;  The diversity of devices and monitoring indicators, often linked to the specific requirements of each donor, poses real problems of comparison or aggregation of data from different projects, making it difficult to objectively assess changes;  The scarcity of impact assessments and ex-post. 7

3.3. The challenges: The challenges boil down to:  The adoption of the National Policy of Evaluation developed since 2010;  The need for a unifying system;  The allocation by the State of adequate financial resources to evaluation activities;  The need for quantitative and qualitative strengthening of human resources;  The adoption of measures to make automatic evaluation of all public policies 8rev ied

CONCLUSION 9 In conclusion, the development agenda of our countries must necessarily take into account today evaluative function because it allows achieving inclusive growth by integrating equity, gender and sustainable human development. Our commitment for the harmonious development through research innovative solutions and strengthening evaluative capacities of our educational institutions is what we should support for the ownership and continuity of evaluation policy to will be perpetuated with the use of new tools such as ICT and Solar Energy. In any event, with the process of democratization and decentralization, it is certain that there are needs for more and more citizen’s control over the management and governance on the one hand and information needs to impose behavioral change towards a more enhanced culture of evaluation which must necessarily conform.

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