Associação Moçambicana de Monitoria e Avaliação (AMMA(
Posted on 05/05/2025
I applaud Carlos, Arwa, Javier, and Xin for initiating this discussion. The reengineering of global development aid, alongside recurring shocks such as natural disasters, security threats, and economic fragility, should inspire Southern hemisphere countries to mobilize their human resources and create synergies that unlock capacities, promote win-win solutions, and strengthen multilateralism.
A major barrier that evaluation practice should address is the connectivity divide isolating countries and evaluation communities of practice, despite technology's potential to bridge physical boundaries. Internet access remains a luxury for urban technocrats in countries like Mozambique, where education, research, and other processes are still manual-based. The digital transformation driving economies elsewhere has yet to impact traditional socioeconomic sectors such as agriculture, which employs most of the Southern population.
With slow and unequal access to electricity, internet, and road connectivity, countries struggle to share experiences and learn from successful practices. While South-South commercial ties are growing, the exchange of evaluation practices lags behind, despite most countries having active evaluation societies that use evaluation products internally for policy formulation, decision making, and learning.
In summary, effective South-South cooperation in evaluation practice requires vigorous measures to ensure rural communities and peri-urban areas in the Global South have access to internet, mobile networks, and electricity.
RE: Maximizing the impact of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in a changing aid architecture through evaluation.
Mozambique
Ventura Fernando Mufume
President of the Board of Directors
Associação Moçambicana de Monitoria e Avaliação (AMMA(
Posted on 05/05/2025
I applaud Carlos, Arwa, Javier, and Xin for initiating this discussion. The reengineering of global development aid, alongside recurring shocks such as natural disasters, security threats, and economic fragility, should inspire Southern hemisphere countries to mobilize their human resources and create synergies that unlock capacities, promote win-win solutions, and strengthen multilateralism.
A major barrier that evaluation practice should address is the connectivity divide isolating countries and evaluation communities of practice, despite technology's potential to bridge physical boundaries. Internet access remains a luxury for urban technocrats in countries like Mozambique, where education, research, and other processes are still manual-based. The digital transformation driving economies elsewhere has yet to impact traditional socioeconomic sectors such as agriculture, which employs most of the Southern population.
With slow and unequal access to electricity, internet, and road connectivity, countries struggle to share experiences and learn from successful practices. While South-South commercial ties are growing, the exchange of evaluation practices lags behind, despite most countries having active evaluation societies that use evaluation products internally for policy formulation, decision making, and learning.
In summary, effective South-South cooperation in evaluation practice requires vigorous measures to ensure rural communities and peri-urban areas in the Global South have access to internet, mobile networks, and electricity.