APNODE Executive Committee members participate in validation workshop on the preliminary draft law on the evaluation of public policies in Cote d’Ivoire

From 14-16 October 2020, the Ivorian Ministry of Planning and Development, through its General Directorate for Planning and the Fight against Poverty, organized a workshop to examine and validate the preliminary draft text of the legal regime for the evaluation of public policies in Cote d’Ivoire. The workshop took place at the Mantchan Hôtel in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire.

This workshop attracted representatives of public regulatory and evaluation institutions, ministries, specialized technical agencies, civil society, research centers, resource persons and the technical coordination team of the Ministry of Planning and Development.

The Vice-Chairperson of APNODE, Hon. Abbas Imbassou Ouattara, and Samuel Kouakou, APNODE Executive Committee member, represented the Network at the workshop.

Professor Lambert Ngaladjo Bamba, Special Advisor to the Minister of Economy and Finance and Coordinator of the Economic and Financial Management Support Project (PAGEF), opened the forum, urging participants to make good use of the meeting to discuss the obstacles encountered in the literature on the evaluation of public policies in order to enrich this preliminary draft text. Mr. Marcelin Cisse, Director General of Planning and the Fight against Poverty at the Ministry of Planning and Development, in his remarks, emphasized that the workshop was an opportunity to propose innovative and optimal solutions to the challenge of systematizing evaluation for a greater effectiveness of public policies.

During the workshop, participants deliberated on the core issues pertaining to institutionalizing the evaluation of public policies in Cote d’Ivoire. Each of the attending stakeholders had an opportunity to provide feedback on the draft document, sharing their insights and expectations of what this development will entail. At the end of the three-day workshop, five key next steps were agreed upon as follows:

1. Finalize the preliminary draft text in the form of a legal text;
2. Build the intervention capacities of the services in charge of the evaluation of public policies in all institutions and administrations;
3. Develop as a priority a national guide for the evaluation of public policies;
4. Establish a national directory of public policies and;
5. Advocate for the creation of a fund dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of the practice of public policy evaluation.