e-Panellists

e-Panel │ 6 May 2020

How to improve results in the agriculture sector: a discussion on leadership and RBM in Africa

Director, Policy Planning Evaluation and Monitoring Directorate, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Republic of Ghana

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Ms. Angela Dannson is an Agricultural Economist with 30 years experience working in the public sector, at the Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate (PPMED) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA). She is currently the Director of PPMED. For a decade and half she worked as the focal point for donor coordination and head of the Projects/Programmes Coordination Unit involved in project design and implementation support. She played key role in the design of several plans and projects such as the Food and Agricultural Sector Development Policy (FASDEP), the Medium Term Agricultural Sector Investment Plan (METASIP), the Canadian funded Budget Support Programme (2004 -2013), the World Bank funded Agricultural Development Policy Operations (2008-2013), IFAD’s the Ghana Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (2014-2021) and AfDB funded Savanah Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP, 2018-2022) to mention a few.

Evaluation Specialist, Presidency, Bureau of Public Policy Evaluation and Government Action Analysis, Republic of Benin

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With 18 years of professional experience, including 13 years of management, Elias Segla specialized in public policy evaluation, a field in which he has been working for 5 years now since he joined the team of the Bureau of Public Policy Evaluation in 2015. His skills : program evaluation, data analysis, qualitative research, strategic and operational management. 

Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, CLEAR Anglophone Africa

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Ian has worked for 40 years in 20 countries on issues of rural development, decentralization, sustainable livelihoods approaches, community-driven development, and evidence-based policy-making and implementation. From 2011 to June 2018 he was the Head of Evaluation and Research and later DDG in South Africa’s Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), where he led the establishment of South Africa’s national evaluation system. Ian has been a Commissioner of 3ie since 2012, and was one of the founders of the Twende Mbele African M&E Partnership, with partners Uganda, Benin, South Africa, CLEAR AA and African Development Bank. Ian joined CLEAR Anglophone Africa in July 2018, and is leading a research project leading to a book on evidence-based policy in Africa. In addition Ian is an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading in the UK.