Mapping Professional /Skills pathways for Young and Emerging Evaluators
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The document discusses the professional skills pathways for young and emerging evaluators, highlighting the diverse backgrounds and entry points into the evaluation field. It identifies key challenges such as the lack of standardization, professional competency frameworks, and limited accredited educational opportunities. Recommendations include redefining mentoring, advocating for collaborations, and improving policies to support the growth of new evaluators.
Mapping Professional /Skills pathways for Young and Emerging Evaluators
- 1. M&E SKILLS IN A CHANGING WORLD Mapping Professional /Skills pathways for Young and Emerging Evaluators SAMEA Conference 24 October 2019
- 2. WHAT MAKES YOU A PROFESSIONAL/ SKILLED YOUNG AND EMERGING EVALUATOR? 2 Law degree? Masters in Evaluation? Pre-emerging? Emerged? Emerging? Professional? Experience? Skills? 3 day course?
- 3. BACKGROUND • Scoping review of available literature from Voluntary Organisation for Professional Evaluators (VOPE), YEEs groups , concepts notes, Journal articles • Purpose: to identify professional/skills development pathways for young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) 3
- 4. MY JOURNEY… 4 • Where it started… • Where it is… • Where its going…..
- 5. NO SINGLE PATH FOR BECOMING AN EVALUATOR 5 • The majority of evaluators, the old, the young and upcoming had various options when choosing to pursue a career in evaluation. • Evaluation is trans-disciplinary leading to multiple professional paths • Entry points for the young and emerging evaluators
- 6. KEY FINDINGS
- 7. 7 • Absence of standardization • Lack of professional learning competency frameworks and guidelines • Inadequate Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) strategies linked to identified priorities specific to YEEs
- 8. 8 • Limited options to attend an accredited evaluation university course and associated formal courses on evaluation • Lack of clear career pathways
- 9. RECOMMENDATIONS 9 • To redefine and expand the concept of mentoring • Advocacy efforts and partnerships with other evaluation associations and relevant local professionals • Elaborate policy efforts to institutionalise the development of young and emerging evaluators to meet the needs of the future
- 10. AN OPEN LETTER … DEAR EVAL *FORE- FATHERS AND MOTHERS *alive 10
- 11. The journey has been an exciting one and thank you for pioneering the movement. We acknowledge all the efforts to professionalise and promote ethical standards in the industry more so acknowledging the great strides that have been made through collaborative efforts from various entities and stakeholders. Our hope is that you refine the professional pathways for young and emerging evaluators. So that we know our entry points, the how, the where…. We understand the innovate changes and challenges faced by the industry and we ask that you document you stories/your journeys so that we can learn from them. Please put us into context/perspective ….when conducting evaluation, we want to be in every evaluation that will be ever conducted. We want to be part of every process. We are ready and capable. Please understand that because we are interested and passionate…mentorship can go a long way in refining our growth. Please challenge us expose us….the new generation of young and emerging evaluators is coming to you with MASTERS AND PHDS IN Evaluation. LASTLY Eval fore mother and father together let us make sure “we leave no one behind”. Yours sincerely Mayibongwe
- 13. THANK YOU 13 Mayibongwe Manyoba mmanyoba@khulisa.com +27 11 447 6464 26 Seventh Avenue, Parktown North, Johannesburg www.khulisa.com