Before or in concomitance to point made below, what would be useful is that some resources were devoted for capacity building with respect of impact evaluation. Training and tools are provided for developing country evaluators so the Impact evaluation initiative is aligned with Country-led evaluation, the new partnerships from Monterey consensus where developing country partner is behind the development wheel.
KUFRE UKPONG , Admin Officer, Nigeria
Capacity building to enable me pass my knowledge on others as well as work effectively with it.
I expect the support to conduct the impact evaluation of agricultural projects and programmes of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand.
Oumoul Ba Tall, IOCE president, AfrEA board member
What I expect from 3ie is that the agenda for impact evaluation be clearly understood and agreed on by the major players in the development arena. This seems to duplicate the mandate of the NONIE, but I am confident it will not as both initiatives will work together. What I see 3ie doing in particular, is to serve as the vehicle that will foster demand for IE, which implies that prospective clients will understand what it is and what the benefits are, for them at first. I see 3ie as a facilitating tool both to foster demand and organise the supply side as well, as they will provide the necessary logistical and financial support to perform the evaluation studies, that they will not carry out I understand. 3ie will also serve as the meta-evaluator in the sense of quality control, and evaluation information management. IEs have all the qualities of Public Goods, and as such, they should be managed to serve the best interest of the Public, which includes all development actors, and mostly the most needed ones.