Parliaments
Equipping African parliaments to use evaluation evidence for stronger legislative oversight.
Twende Mbele works with parliaments and the African Parliamentarians' Network on Development Evaluation (APNoDE) to strengthen the use of evaluation evidence in legislative oversight, budgetary scrutiny and constituency engagement.
Evaluation Capacity Building For Parliamentarians To Strengthen Their Oversight Role
June 2025 The purpose of the 3-day capacity building workshop was to build and augment existing M&E capacities among Members of Parliament (MPs) and Parliament Researchers of Twende Mbele member countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, South Africa and Uganda. This capacity building workshop aimed to foster champi…
Twende Mbele Parliamentary Capacity Building Workshop.
June 2025 The purpose of the 3-day capacity building workshop was to build and augment existing M&E capacities among Members of Parliament (MPs) and Parliament Researchers of Twende Mbele member countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, South Africa and Uganda. This capacity building workshop aimed to foster champi…
Parliamentary Capacity Building: Evaluation As A Tool for Better Oversight
June 2025 The purpose of the 3-day capacity building workshop was to build and augment existing M&E capacities among Members of Parliament (MPs) and Parliament Researchers of Twende Mbele member countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, South Africa and Uganda. This capacity building workshop aimed to foster champi…
Renforcement Des Capacités Parlementaires : l'Évaluation Comme Outil Pour Une Meilleure Surveillance
Juin 2025 L'objectif de cet atelier de renforcement des capacités, d'une durée de trois jours, était de renforcer et d'améliorer les capacités existantes en matière de suivi et d'évaluation des membres du Parlement et des chercheurs parlementaires des pays membres de Twende Mbele : Bénin, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Af…
Mise en place de systèmes de suivi et d'évaluation dans les parlements africains
Guide Decembre 2021 Cette note d'orientation sur la mise en place de systèmes d'évaluation dans les parlements s'appuie sur les connaissances techniques que nous avons acquises en étudiant les systèmes de suivi et d'évaluation dans les parlements et les administrations publiques, dans le cadre d'un travail mené …
Evaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments: The case of the Philippines, Uganda and APNODE
May 2024 A presentation by Josephine Watera at a webinar titled, "Evaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments: the Case of the Philippines, Uganda and APNODE". Report NameEvaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments: The case of the Philippines, Uganda and APNODEAuthorJosephine Watera Categories Parliaments , P…
The Case of Evaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments : Philippines’ Experience
May 2024 A presentation by Dr Romulo Miral at a webinar titled, "Evaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments: the Case of the Philippines, Uganda and APNODE". Report NameThe Case of Evaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments : Philippines’ ExperienceAuthorJosephine Watera Categories Parliaments , Presentation…
Limited Use of Evaluative Evidence in Public Policy, Planning and Voluntary National Review (VNR) Development - Policy Brief
January 2023 This policy brief is a succinct summary of findings from the discussion paper titled VNRs and SDG evaluations in Anglophone Africa and Latin America: A mapping of common challenges and emerging good practices (2022) by DEval and CLEAR-AA and CLEAR-LAC. The policy brief is important because it recomme…
Evaluation Capacity Building for Parliaments — Philippines, Uganda and APNoDE
A comparative case study on building evaluation capacity in African parliaments
Establishing M&E Systems in African Parliaments - Guideline
Establishing M&E Systems in African Parliaments - Guideline
Impact Report 2021
This Impact Report highlights how the Twende Mbele peer learning and sharing approach has been successful in trialing innovative ideas and approaches. Where; parliamentary support has been successful at regional level, with individual parliaments learning from each other’s best practices. partner countries contin…
Establishing M&E Systems in African Parliaments
A Guideline December 2021 This guideline note on establishing evaluation systems in parliaments draws on the technical understanding we have gained from studying monitoring and evaluation systems in parliaments and across governments, work led by Twende Mbele and facilitated through a partnership with the Centre …
Uganda M&E Webinar –Country Achievements & Learnings (Webinar Slides)
June 2021 This webinar discussed some of the Lessons & Achievement of building a robust M&E system in Uganda. Highlighting the government's reform policies and mechanisms instituted to effectively collect and analyze data/information, evaluate, improve and control its performance. Presentation NameUganda M&E Webi…
Evidence Use by Parliaments during COVID Slides
Evidence Use by Parliaments during COVID Slides
Evidence Use by Parliaments during COVID (Webinar Slides)
March 2021 In light of the COVID19 pandemic, a very important question of what the role of parliaments has become during the national lockdowns and response to the COVID19 pandemic remains. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government …
Peer learning as an approach to improve the work of African parliaments
This practice brief highlights the capacity development efforts by stakeholders in the parliamentary space through Twende Mbele and the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR-AA) peer learning programme. It looks at some of the challenges facing parliamentarians – both generators and users of eviden…
Strengthening Evidence Use in African Parliaments - Learning Note
September 2020 This learning brief is largely based on the findings of a recently completed tracer study (2020) aimed at better understanding the effectiveness of the capacity strengthening initiatives jointly implemented by CLEAR-AA and Twende Mbele since 2017 including: ■ Training workshops for parliamentarians…
Peer learning as an approach to improve the work of African parliaments
Peer learning as an approach to improve the work of African parliaments
Building a robust M&E System: Incentives to use M&E information (Webinar Slides)
October 2020 The issue of utilization of M&E information is central to the performance and sustainability of an M&E system. Utilization depends on the nature and strength of the demand for M&E information—in other words, on the incentives to use M&E. Countries with little or no demand for M&E may be perceived as …
Effets des initiatives de renforcement des capacités parlementaires - Résumé exécutif
Février 2020 Ce rapport présente les résultats d'une étude de traceur menée par CLEAR-AA en partenariat avec Twende Mbele à la suite de leurs interventions de renforcement des capacités visant à améliorer l'utilisation des preuves et les processus de S&E dans les parlements africains entre 2017 et 2018. Les donné…
Effects of the Parliamentary Capacity Strengthening Initiatives - Tracer Study Report
February 2020 This report presents results from a tracer study conducted by CLEAR-AA in partnership with Twende Mbele following their capacity strengthening interventions aimed at improving evidence use and M&E processes in African parliaments between 2017 and 2018. The tracer study data presented in this report …
Strengthening Evidence Use in African Parliaments
Strengthening Evidence Use in African Parliaments
African MPs, researchers call for enhanced evidence-use in parliaments
February 2019 Representatives from Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, The East African Legislative Assembly, South Africa, Malawi, and Ghana have called for improved research and evidence use in African Parliaments. They were hosted by the Parliament of Uganda for a workshop on research and evidence use in the Parl…
Parliament, Participation and Policy Making – Policy Brief
June 2020 This policy brief describes the experiences and lessons emerging from the revision of Kenya’s Wildlife Conservation and Management Act (2013) through the use of public participation. The Act was reviewed with a parliamentary body, the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (DCENR), …
Effects of the Parliamentary Capacity Strengthening Initiatives
February 2020 This report presents results from a tracer study conducted by CLEAR-AA in partnership with Twende Mbele following their capacity strengthening interventions aimed at improving evidence use and M&E processes in African parliaments between 2017 and 2018. The tracer study data presented in this report …
African MPs, researchers call for enhanced evidence-use in parliaments
African MPs, researchers call for enhanced evidence-use in parliaments
Equity-focused and Gender-responsive Evidence in the Parliamentary Context
June 2019 Gender is defined as the social construction of being female or male and the relationships between women, men, girls and boys based on society construction. Gender is socially constructed and culture determines roles associated with being male or female. (Men provide for the home women care for family m…
Tanzania Adds Extra Skills to Evaluation Experts Assessing ASDP II Projects
THE Tanzanian government has embarked on evidence-based decision-making by equipping monitoring and evaluation specialists with skills to assess the impact of agricultural programmes under the Agricultural Sector Development Programme Phase Two (ASDP II). This is being implemente…
Septième édition des Journées Béninoises de l’Évaluation (JBE) 2025
Septième édition des Journées Béninoises de l’Évaluation (JBE) 2025 Du 8 au 10 septembre, la Direction Generale de l’Evaluation et de l’Observatoire du Changement Social (DGEOCS) a organisé la Septième édition des Journées Béninoises de l’Évaluation à l'hôtel Golden Tulip Le Dipl…
Parliamentary evaluation capacity-building workshop concludes
Members of African parliaments completed a Twende Mbele workshop on using evaluation as an oversight tool
AfrEA Anniversary 2025 , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
AfrEA 25 Years Anniversary, 16-18 June 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia On the 16 - 18 June 2025, non-government organisations, governments and international organisations joined African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) to celebrate 25 years of their existence. The celebration of 25 yea…
Parliamentary Capacity Building Workshop 29-31 May 2025 Cape Town
Parliamentary Capacity Building Workshop, 29-31 May 2025, Cape Town Twende Mbele in collaboration with DPME, South Africa, organised a 3-day capacity building workshop to bolster and augment existing M&E capacities among Members of Parliament (MPs) and parliamentary researcher de…
Reflections on the Sixth Edition of the Beninese Evaluation Days
By Florence Mbabazi Directorate of Monitoring Evaluation and Inspection in the Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda Benin Evaluation days is a biennial M&E event and the 2023 6 th edition took place from the 4 th to 6 th October at Golden Tulip Hotel le Diplomate in Cotonou, the …