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A leading M&E, Gender, Program and Organizational Management Specialist, with over 10 years of relevant experience. Member of UNFCCC's Team of Technical Experts (TTEs) under the international consultation and analysis (ICA) process, on Climate Change. Founder of Evaluation Society of Kenya (ESK). With her coordination, Kericho’s Health Sector Rapid Evaluation was Runners-Up in the 2022 IDEAS/GEI Global Award, under ‘Evaluation as Transformation’ category. It’s a joint initiative of ESK/MED, National Treasury and Planning, endorsed by the Council of Governors (COG), funded by the World Bank, towards promotion of the evaluation of the SDGs (under the EvalSDGs agenda). Runners-up recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award. Recognized by Nation Media Business Daily as one of Kenya’s 2016 “Women in Top Corporate Leadership. Under her organizational leadership Kenya declared the 2018 Winner of the “EVALPARTNERS/EVALSDGs Global Outcomes Competition. Holds MA in Gender and Development; BA in Sociology and Philosophy. Education supplemented with formal professional trainings in M&E, policy, advocacy, climate change and gender, among others.
Jennifer Nzambi Mutua
Founder and independent consultant Evaluation Society of KenyaDear Malika,
Thanks for sharing your experience. Our initiative as shared on this platform [www.evalforward.org/comment/reply/node/118/field_comments_ref/19], involves a joint partnership of the Evaluation Society of Kenya (ESK) and Monitoring & Evaluation Department (MED), funded by the World Bank. So our context is different from yours, as it involves coordination between national and county governments (making things more complex). Nonetheless, like you, our experiences were that indeed the rapid evaluations were not as quick as initially planned (and as the term seems to imply). Much more resources than initially planned were also expended. Some contributing factors to these were:
In view of all these and subject to context, I think, it’s important to take into account these limitations, including potential budget over-runs at the evaluation planning stages.
Kind Regards,
Jennifer