The Deputy Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) Mr Buti Manamela will address the fifth Biennial South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) Conference under the theme “Using evaluations to improve people's lives”.
The conference is a partnership between the DPME, Public Service Commission and SAMEA. The conference will be the premier Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) event in South Africa and the domestic culmination of the International Year of Evaluation 2015, which was launched by Minister Jeff Radebe on the 19th March 2015 at the University of Witwatersrand.
The conference will address the following sub-thematic areas: Evaluation use, accountability and public interest (focusing on both state and non-state sectors; Approaches, designs and methods for monitoring, evaluating and conveying developmental impact; and Key issues facing international development evaluation.
The conference is preceded by two and half days of capacity building workshops with a record 19 workshops on offer. Over 100 oral presentations were accepted for the conference, this will make for excellent debates and engagements on some of the most pressing issues facing the M&E community.
Event details are as follows:
Date: 14 October 2015
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg
Time: 14h00
For further information please contact: Mmabatho Ramompi 076 480 3513
For media interviews, please contact:
Sandisiwe Vilakazi
Cell: 071 370 1048
E-mail: Sandisiwe@presidency-dpme.gov.za
Matshepo Seedat
Cell: 082 679 9473
E-mail: Matshepo@presidency.gov.za
