Monitoring & Evaluation

African think tanks prove useful in researching, influencing, designing and implementing policies and can therefore be used by development practitioners in project cycles, said Dr Frannie Léautier, Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a Zimbabwe-based organisation...

Making Technical Cooperation more effective implies making the European Commission more effective. That may be painful, but not impossible, argues Nils Boesen who has assisted EuropeAid in designing and implementing the TC reform.

Improving Donor Harmonisation Through Joint Monitoring The EC offers three concrete proposals. At the 2nd Joint Monitoring Seminar, The European Commission proposed three concrete steps that donors can take towards better harmonisation through joint monitoring of common development projects.