The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pool resources and expertise to meet the global demand for stronger monitoring and evaluation capacity.  Working together, they will be in a much stronger position to meet this demand in key regions, including Francophone Africa, North America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North African regions.  

The agreement comes at a time when there is a great need for evaluation capacity building around the world, which no single organization can meet on its own. Formalizing the collaboration between IEG and ENAP will enable the two institutions to work together to share knowledge and lessons learned, coordinated their efforts and expertise, and capitalize on their respective networks to advance evaluation capacity development in key areas of the world. The collaboration will help expand the delivery of ENAP's Programme International de formation en évaluation du développement (PIFED) to geographic and linguistic spaces that remain currently under-served.

Watch IEG Director-General Alison Evans and ENAP Director-General Guy LaForest introduce this new collaboration for global evaluation capacity development.

 "This agreement will allow ENAP and IEG to go much farther in building and developing evaluation capacity in developing countries," said Guy Laforest, the Executive Director of ENAP. “I am pleased that our school's expertise in evaluation is now available on a wider scale, especially in this year of the 10th anniversary of the PIFED.”

“IEG looks forward to strengthening its partnership with ENAP in order to generate synergies and thus extend the impact of the monitoring and evaluation support programs of our two institutions,” said Alison Evans, the Director General of IEG. “This partnership will enable us to support more governments and institutions in strengthening their systems and capacity to support data-based decision-making and results-based information, and thus accelerate their progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs).”

As a step towards signing the MoU, ENAP hosted an event during the 2020 gLOCAL Evaluation Week, which took place from June 1 to 5, and was organized by IEG and the CLEAR Initiative. ENAP held a joint panel with the Francophone Evaluation Network of Canada and International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) on the theme "The Online Transition of Pandemic Assessment Capacity Building Practices: Challenges, Opportunities and Limits" in which hundreds of people participated.

Note: This is a translated version of the original news story in French.

 

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