MONITORING AND EVALUATION: MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN EGYPT
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OE seeks to expand its excellent collaboration opment partners and senior government officials, with the Government of Egypt, as the Office including H.E. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister plans to further strengthen the monitoring and of Egypt, H.E. Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of Interevaluation (M&E) capacity of IFAD programme national Cooperation, and H.E. EL-Said Marzouq countries. Between 23 and 29 October 2021, InEl-Qosair, Minister of Agriculture and Land Recladran A. Naidoo, Director of IOE, presented these mation, with whom they discussed IFAD’s role in opportunities Egypt. to high-level counterparts “A key factor from the Arab for success is Republic of when you have Egypt, as he the highest level joined memof government bers of the support and a IFAD Execvery good colutive Board laboration with and senior IFAD on the IFAD delegation at the artificial insemination center management ground. This was for a high-level visit to the country. and is very much the case in Egypt. We engaged with the central ministries, we met the Prime Min“The Board visit to Egypt was an excellent way to ister, the Minister for International Cooperation, and witness first-hand how IFAD works at the country the Minister for Agriculture. They have all given level, and to see the way it engages with government the highest level of support to IFAD’s intervention and communities. We saw significant evidence – which is financially very significant”, Dr Naidoo to show that the various streams of intervention highlighted. have been successful and continue to grow both in terms of Focusing on the number of possibilities for beneficiaries, future capacity and of having development , impact at the Dr Naidoo outenvironmental lined the possilevel. It was an bility to explore amazing exo p p o r tu n i t i e s perience”, Dr for developing Naidoo statM&E capacied. ty for rural development in Indran A. Naidoo and Dina Saleh at the artificial insemination center The visit alEgypt, as a pilot, lowed Board representatives to experience IFAD’s working with the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). work on the ground, and observe the strengths and Dr Naidoo explained that this approach would challenges that the organization faces in carrying expand the work on national evaluation capacity out its mandate. During the visit, Dr Naidoo and that the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Adthe members of the Board engaged with develministrative Reform of the Government of Egypt
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