On 4 August 2020, the APNODE Executive Committee voted to postpone the 6th Annual General Meeting (AGM) originally planned to take place from 13-15 July 2020 in Rabat, Morocco to 2021. The decision to postpone the event, was due to the uncertainty around the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Executive Committee, having evaluated the situation, concluded that there was too much uncertainty in terms of health risks and travel restrictions. The 2021 dates will be communicated in due course.
The sixth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the African Parliamentarians’ Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE) will take place in Rabat, Morocco, hosted by the Kingdom’s House of Councilors.
Guided by the theme Enhancing Parliamentary Oversight for Transformative Development, the AGM will, among others, reflect on the first 5 years of APNODE to forge ahead for the next five. In doing so, the Network will seek to further enhance its footprint and relevance across the continent, even as it strengthens its collaborations with national and regional parliaments and other evaluation capacity development actors on the continent and beyond.
The AGM will blend plenary, panel and capacity development sessions. Aside from statutory agenda items such as the review and approval of the 5th AGM minutes and the Network’s annual and financial reports, the forum will also hold two high level panel discussions on: a) Enhancing Parliamentary Oversight for Transformative Development – What are the Strategic Imperatives? and, b) 10 years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: How can African Parliamentarians Catalyze Progress?
The AGM in Rabat, Morocco is the first ever in North Africa, after earlier AGMs in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (2015, 2019), Harare, Zimbabwe (2016), Khartoum, Sudan (2017) and Libreville, Gabon (2018). The three-day event should offer legislators, development partners, centres of evaluation expertise and representatives from Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) across Africa a unique opportunity to network, share experiences, knowledge and perspectives, as well as nurture an Africa-rooted, nuanced, and contextualized evaluation perspective.
The AGM is expected to attract Speakers of the House/Senate, Members of National Assemblies and Senators from across Africa, as well as representatives from development partners and centres of expertise such as AfDB, UNDP, UNICEF, UN-Women, EvalPartners, CLEAR (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results), Global Parliamentarians’ Forum on Evaluation (GPFE), and RFE (Réseau Francophone de l'Evaluation). Also expected are representatives from Africa’s regional parliaments, notably, the ECOWAS Parliament, East African Legislative Assembly, the Pan African Parliament, the Inter-Parliamentary Union of Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) Member States, and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum.
Participation in the AGM is by invitation only. Members of parliament who wish to participate are kindly requested to contact the APNODE Secretariat (APNODE@AFDB.ORG).
For more information on APNODE, please visit: http://idev.afdb.org/apnode