Consolidating Research and Education Networking in Africa (CORENA) : monitoring and evaluation strategy

Abstract

This report outlines the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) strategy for Consolidating Research and Education Networking in Africa (CORENA) program of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking, herein after referred to as UbuntuNet. The program objective is to secure high bandwidth connections at affordable rates to help inter-connect African National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to each other, to other NRENs worldwide and to the Internet in general. The goal is to empower African researchers and academics to contribute proportionately to the world's intellectual output, hopefully generating proportionate intellectual property and respective development within their countries. The main objective of the framework is to provide a set of parameters that UbuntuNet can adopt in developing its M&E systems in order to effectively monitor and evaluate the performance, intermediate outcomes and impact of the CORENA intervention. Effective M&E ensures that project strategies are properly aligned to changing contexts and that progress towards the program goal is tracked and any area needing attention is immediately attended to.