Réseau National de l’Evaluation au Burundi

Address: Quartier Gasekebuye, Commune Musaga, 1ere Avenue B.P. 681Bujumbura, Burundi
Tel. +257 22 25 63 85
E-mail : rnebburndi@gmail.com

BRIEF HISTORY OF RNEB

The National Network of Evaluators Burundi (RNEB) is a network of consultants and managers in charge of program management in different institutions since 2010. It originates winners on a core having followed in planning training modules, monitoring, and evaluation of projects/programs organized by the Design Office CHANNEL RESEARCH- BELGIUM through its branch based in BURUNDI, CHANNEL RESEARCH TANGANYIKA.

Taking advantage of the framework of a professional meeting, this core has agreed to stay in the network for the exchange of information and appropriate analysis tools. The RNEB, even in the informal stage, decided in September 2012 to form a formal association and was approved by Ministerial Order Nº530 / 300 dated 25 February 2013.

The official launch of its operations was on April 4, 2013, in the presence of the Representative of the African Evaluation Association (African Evaluation Association) in East Africa.

VISION: The RNEB vision is “to be the leading professional evaluation in Burundi”.

MISSION: The mission of RNEB is “to promote culture, the practice, use, quality, and ethics of Monitoring and Evaluation in Burundi’s development process”

INITIATIVE “EVALUATORS EMERGING” (Ee)

It was during the event celebrating the international year of assessment held in Nepal in which one of the members of RNEB (Focal Person emerging Assessors) participated with the support of Youth Eval (Funding Master Card Foundation) that the idea of ​​creating a cluster emerging Evaluators RNEB was born.

Assessor is emerging a member of RNEB that:
1. At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of evaluation or
2. At least 30 years of birth,
3. Is a new winner of a university that wants to embrace the valuation profession. With the support of RFE (Francophone Network Evaluation) in its branch dedicated to emerging Assessors (RFEE), the Thematic Group “emerging Evaluators” was launched in February 2016 and organizes various activities such as:
–  Sensitization in universities, which will lead to the formation of clubs Emerging Assessors
– Organization of exchange workshops,
– Online Training

PROFILE OF RNEB:

Professional assessment of very different sectors that offer multidisciplinary expertise to the development of Burundi, Africa, and the World. Exchange of experience between colleagues, Beneficiary systematic information and opportunities in the field of evaluation, the opportunity to contribute to the enrichment of national systems for monitoring/evaluation of multisectoral programs,

  • Partnership Opportunity for consultancy work at national and international levels.
  • From planning to monitoring and evaluation, the members of RNEB hold extensive expertise in assessment tools such as:
  • Cards actors/stakeholders,
  • contextual analysis Map
  • Tree problems/solutions
  • Logical Framework
  • results-based management
  • OECD Evaluation Criteria
     – close cooperation with state institutions and agencies, both in decision-making (the executive, legislative, etc.) and operational level ( sectoral ministries, public and para-public organizations, etc.).
    – An effective partnership: diverse actors, and stakeholders dialogue for development.

OBJECTIVE:

Gather around a table various stakeholders in the evaluation of public policies and programs (local players, experts, academics, researchers, and government institutional actors).

INTERVENTION AREAS:

  1. Developing a strategic partnership with key state institutions (the Presidency of the Republic, the Government, through the various ministries, the National Assembly, and the Senate) and other specialized agencies in the field of monitoring and evaluation of policies/development programs and projects;
  2. strengthening partnerships, as an Organization of Civil Society (CSO), with technical and financial partners of Burundi, essential development actors in promoting the culture of evaluation at the national level;
  3. engage professional CSOs in monitoring and evaluation (office/study centers, societies …) so that they integrate RNEB.

KEY ACTIVITIES:

– To exchange tools between members,
–  organize exchange workshops between emerging and experienced Assessors  and with development partners
– To participate in international conferences on evaluation
– Work with other national evaluation associations in Africa and the world
– Mobilize evaluation professionals at national,
– Organize workshops for reflection on the expertise of the evaluation of projects/programs.

PARTNERS
www.afrea.org
portail-rfe.org 

IOCE
http://mymande.org/evalpartners And VOPES (professional voluntary evaluation Organizations) such as national corporate assessment of Kenya, Niger, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo,

PRIZES&AWARDS: N/A

 CONTACT Persons

NAMEPOSITIONEMAILTELEPHONE
Augustin NGENDAKURIYOPresidentgconsulting14@gmail.com+(257)79960721
Zenobe NIRAGIRAGeneral Secretaryniragiraz@yahoo.fr+(257)79957933
Pierre BARAMPENDAExecutive Secretarypbarampenda@hotmail.com+(257)76747175