These strategies will be The Africa Program will have sector delivery strategies. developed for the mining, food security and maternal and child health sector programs and will: define how Australia will provide aid in Africa in particular sectors over a period of four to five years communicate Australia’s intent in these sectors to partners in Africa provide engagement strategies for each partner establish performance measures for each program. The Africa The Africa Program will improve monitoring and evaluation. Program will deliver on the Australian Government’s commitment to improve measurement of aid results and the way results are used to improve program management. To make the transition to results-based management, the Africa Program will: undertake a stocktake of its monitoring and evaluation systems to assess the program’s alignment with Comprehensive Aid Policy Framework objectives, the appropriateness of AusAID and partner indicators, use of performance information, resourcing and staff monitoring and evaluation capacity. The stocktake will inform priorities for strengthening monitoring and evaluation in 2013 develop performance assessment frameworks for each major sector program. Each framework will include a limited set of simple and measurable indicators to determine if the program is delivering expected results while avoiding excessive reporting requirements for implementing partners undertake focused reviews of the following activities: Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme: review of the partner non-government organisation’s monitoring and evaluation systems to identify areas that require strengthening and to support reporting and information sharing Australia Awards: evaluation of outcomes from Australia Awards granted in the past 10 years (recently completed), a mid-term review of operational effectiveness and a gender review AusAID-CSIRO partnerships: evaluation to assess progress against objectives and inform future directions for the program Australia-Africa Partnerships Facility: undertake separate reviews of the effectiveness of mining study tours, gender initiatives, operational performance and program relevance Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia: undertake a mid-term review of program performance Sudan non-government organisation program: independent completion review Zimbabwe Food and Water Initiative: review non-government organisation performance and achievement of activity objectives
The Africa Program will have sector delivery strategies. These strategies will be developed for the mining, food security and maternal and child health sector programs and will: define how Australia will provide aid in Africa in particular sectors over a period of four to five years communicate Australia’s intent in these sectors to partners in Africa provide engagement strategies for each partner establish performance measures for each program. The Africa Program will improve monitoring and evaluation. The Africa Program will deliver on the Australian Government’s commitment to improve measurement of aid results and the way results are used to improve program management. To make the transition to results-based management, the Africa Program will: undertake a stocktake of its monitoring and evaluation systems to assess the program’s alignment with Comprehensive Aid Policy Framework objectives, the appropriateness of AusAID and partner indicators, use of performance information, resourcing and staff monitoring and evaluation capacity. The stocktake will inform priorities for strengthening monitoring and evaluation in 2013 develop performance assessment frameworks for each major sector program. Each framework will include a limited set of simple and measurable indicators to determine if the program is delivering expected results while avoiding excessive reporting requirements for implementing partners undertake focused reviews of the following activities: Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme: review of the partner non-government organisation’s monitoring and evaluation systems to identify areas that require strengthening and to support reporting and information sharing Australia Awards: evaluation of outcomes from Australia Awards granted in the past 10 years (recently completed), a mid-term review of operational effectiveness and a gender review AusAID-CSIRO partnerships: evaluation to assess progress against objectives and inform future directions for the program Australia-Africa Partnerships Facility: undertake separate reviews of the effectiveness of mining study tours, gender initiatives, operational performance and program relevance Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia: undertake a mid-term review of program performance Sudan non-government organisation program: independent completion review Zimbabwe Food and Water Initiative: review non-government organisation performance and achievement of activity objectives
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