1. WELCOME to Policy Making and Policy Implementation: The Role of Monitoring & Evaluation Practitioners Roundtable Discussion Presentation at the 1st SAMEA Conference March 29th 2007 Johannesburg, South Africa

2. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta2 Agenda Welcome & Introductions Establishing responsibilities; you, me, us Setting expectations and identifying objectives ======================== Presentation Brief Q&A ===================== Group work Group presentations to plenary Closing remarks

3. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta3 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.

4. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta4 Plan of Roundtable 2 parts Part1 Part 2 Brief presentationGroup 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

5. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta5 PART 1

6. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta6 Policy Making and Policy Implementation: The Role of Monitoring & Evaluation Practitioners: What’s in a Name? What do we call what we do? Development Evaluation OR Evaluation of Development? Is there any difference? Is this difference important?

7. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta7 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).

8. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta8 The Policy Process What is this process? 1.Agenda setting 2.Policy Compilation 3.Policy Implementation 4.Policy Evaluation/Assessment/Review Who is involved? How? To what effect/what are the outcomes of this involvement?

9. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta9 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”

10. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta10 PART 2

11. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta11 Group work 1.Select/identify a policy that you have been personally been involved in i.e. name it. 2.Group the results and then form a few policy themes. 3.Group individuals around these policy themes 4.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. 5.Present three 3 reasonable and feasible actions that your group recommends to SAMEA to promote the evaluation of OUR development.

12. 1 st SAMEA Conference 29-Mar-07 Florence Etta12 Thank you for your attention Just in case you wish to get in touch feanywhere@yahoo.co.uk