Association for the Promotion of Evaluation in Mali (APEM)

Address: Rue 252 Porte 163, Daoudabougou, Bamako-Mali (near Embassy of Algeria)
Phone: (223) 20 20 36 99

BRIEF HISTORY OF APEM

Association Pour La Promotion De L’évaluation au Mali (Apem) was created in 2006 under the initiative of national experts who worked in the field of local development. This initiative is part of the observation that evaluation is a preferred instrument of good governance allowing the initiation of a systematic process and an objective assessment of a project, a  program, or a development policy; however the period of evaluation often constitutes times of panic and stress within the structures presented to it, many of concerned actors consider it as a good measure of repression than an instrument for sharing information and orientation to achieve the objectives that development actors have set for themselves.

In order to fight against this erroneous view while remaining convinced that the aim of the development of the evaluation activities lies in the need to engage a new dynamic. Allowing the involvement of Malian experts in the regional, sub-regional and global movement of the evaluation in response to the challenges/challenges posed by the field of monitoring and evaluation of policies, programs, and development projects in Mali that the founders of “APEM” have mobilized.

Profile of Association for the Promotion of evaluation in Mali (APEM)

APEM’s mission is to promote evaluation as a tool for good governance in the control and management of projects and developmental projects at national, regional, and local levels in Mali.

Objectives

  • produce and disseminate standards in evaluation
  • develop national evaluation capacities
  • create an avenue for public debate on public auction
  • Build consensus around the main principles and priority areas of evaluation

ACTIVITIES

Some major activities since the establishment of APEM:

  • participation in the virtual conference organized by the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) in December 2008
  • Active in Malian Symposium on Applied Science (MSAS) held in Bamako in 2008-2010
  • Participation in the planning of priority actions 2009 Component: UNICEF Rights and partnership Promotion program
  • Elaboration of a policy paper for the organization of the National Symposium and promotion of evaluation culture for the good governance of political public programs in projects in Mali
  • Making a policy paper on the Mobilization Strategy of technical and financial partners.
  • An active member of the first office of AfrEA, 2009-2012
  • Organization of evaluation workshop as part of capacity building (Hosted by Marie Gervais of Canada)
  • Active participation at the sixth AfrEA conference in Ghana, January 2012
  • A member of APEM co-hosted the training session on “monitoring participatory Evaluation impact-oriented management” in partnership with the Institute of Science and Population (ISSP)Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and the Centre for Innovation and Development (CDI) Wageningen, Netherlands,
  • Participation in the first International Francophone Forum of Evaluation at Dakar, October 2014
  • Participation in the   National Workshop on the elaboration of a methodological and institutional framework for the evaluation of public policies in Mali. The workshop was organized by the Ministry of Planning for Land and Population Management, in November 2014.
  • Participation in the first edition of Ivorian Evaluation Journal, February 2015
  • The organizer of the first edition of National Evaluation journals in Mali, November 2015
  • Participant at the International Conference of the University of Abdelhamid Mehri of Constantine 2 in Algeria. Theme‘Optimizing academic missions and putting evaluation at the service of research, innovation and talent training”. Communication presentation on the subject ‘How to develop the networking of Evaluation Associations’, May 2015.
  • Participation at the second edition of the International Francophone Evaluation Forum organized by RFE at Marrakech, December 2016
  • Participant at the Fifth Evaluation Conference on National Capacity organized by the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP in Istanbul. Common communication presentation with the CSLP under the theme ‘Evaluation and Conflict in the Sahel’ (Case of Mali) PRSP:

PARTNERS

PRSP: Technical unit for coordinating the poverty Reduction Strategy framework;

DNPD: National Directorate for Development Planning;
DNB: National Directorate of the Budget
UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund;
CFD: Development training Centre;
TOKTEN: Transfer of KnowledgethroughExpatriateNationals

PRIZES and Awards

In January 2012, EMPA placed 3rd for the Bill Gates award worth 1500 US dollars at the sixth conference of AfrEA, Accra , Ghana.

NAMES & POSITIONS OF EXECUTIVES

NAMEPOSITIONEMAILTELEPHONE
Chiaka DEMBELEChief Exécutivechakoul@yahoo.fr(223) 67497979
Ramatou DIARRAInternational Relations Officeratou2000@yahoo.fr(223) 66086565
Amadou DIALLOAccountantAmadou.966@gmail.com(223) 60308327