CCARDESA Facilitates M&E Workshop for APPSA Angola and Lesotho

The Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA) is hosting a two-day virtual monitoring and evaluation workshop from 4th to 5th of October 2021. The main objective of the workshop is to build common understanding of the results framework and monitoring tools under the Agricultural Productivity Program for Southern Africa (APPSA) among M&E experts and scientists from Angola and Lesotho.

APPSA is a six-year World Bank funded initiative currently under implementation in Angola and Lesotho with regional coordination by CCARDESA. The APPSA project development objective (PDO) is to increase the availability of improved agricultural technologies in participating countries within the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region.

Day 1 was dedicated towards building an understanding for each country on how to organize the entire M&E and reporting format around the Results Framework. CCARDESA then led the discussion on the consolidated Results Framework and data collection tool for measuring indicators across countries to ensure consistency. The focus for day 2 will be on the regional MIS as participants will discuss the preliminary findings on the assessment of AKVO for potential adoption by Angola and Lesotho. AKVO is a web-based system that was used during the first phase of APPSA implemented in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. The assessment was recommended during the last Implementation Support Mission (ISM) conducted by the World Bank in June 2021.

Workshop participants include APPSA M&E experts and scientists from the Agronomic Research Institute of the Republic of Angola, the Department of Agricultural Research of the Kingdom of Lesotho, APPSA staff based at the CCARDESA Secretariat, and the World Bank M&E Specialist based in Zambia, Ms Ngao Mubanga.