News from the Francophone Evaluation Network

The CES is an active member of the Réseau francophone de l'évaluation (RFÉ) where it sits on the Board of Directors and where its representative acts as vice-president. The President of the RFÉ recently reported to members on the achievements of the past six months. Here are the highlights.

• Development of new by-laws and policies clarifying the role of various committees and the management principles of the organization.
• Meta-evaluation work on behalf of the French Development Agency (AFD) and production of an analysis of evaluations produced for this organization in Sahel; the collaboration of the national associations helped to refine the knowledge of the institutional context of the countries and the voluntary contribution of a team from IDHEAP (Universiti de Lausanne), led by Professor Katia Horber-Papazian, produced profoundly useful observations for AFD.
• Building of a consortium of partners about the institutionalization of evaluation; a diagnostic phase will soon begin in four RFÉ member countries in Africa and the Middle East.
• Programming of a third International Francophone Evaluation Forum (FIFE) in the fourth quarter of 2019; it will take place in a country of the North considering that the first two FIFE were held in the South in 2014 and 2016.
• Planning of a survey of members to identify new approaches and opportunities for collaboration.
• Organization of a webinar series with the support of UNICEF and EValSDGs on the evaluation of the SDGs.
• Conferences and other online activities of the Emerging Evaluators Group.