I am currently (2017) the Treasurer of the African Evaluation Association as well as an Honorary Member of the Zambia Monitoring and Evaluation Association. I am studying for my Doctorate in Business Administration at the University of Lusaka.I am an Independent Consultant specialised in business, economics, governance, monitoring and evaluation, social development and taxation. I offer consultancy services to private companies,non-governmental organisations, cooperating partners and the governments Address: Lusaka
Without active civil society and their evaluations, Zambia would still be a colonised nation. It ... more Without active civil society and their evaluations, Zambia would still be a colonised nation. It is the welfare societies and cultural groups of indigenous Africans that were the foundation for the political movements that fought for its independence from the British. After political independence, civil society grew because of the 1970s global oil and financial crises. This was to mitigate the adverse effects on ordinary citizens of the conditionality of borrowing from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and developed nations. The increase in foreign development assistance led to an increase in development projects and programmes along with their associated internal management requirements for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Government, during this time, also started to formulate plans and programmes that required components of M&E (for example, poverty reduction strategies). After the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, M&E rose to prominence in Zambia’s nati...
"I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread t... more "I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread to other countries. On 13 January 2020 a first COVID-19 case outside China was confirmed in Thailand. When Europe got affected and numbers started exponentially rising in Italy and England, I became concerned. "When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic on 11 March and the media increased its coverage, the government started its public awareness and prevention programme. Some Zambians, including myself, volunteered to help the Ministry of Health in information dissemination. I helped translate the WHO guidelines into Nsenga. It is a language spoken mainly by an indigenous ethnic group, Nsenga, found in the Eastern province of Zambia."
"I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread t... more "I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread to other countries. On 13 January 2020 a first COVID-19 case outside China was confirmed in Thailand. When Europe got affected and numbers started exponentially rising in Italy and England, I became concerned. "When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic on 11 March and the media increased its coverage, the government started its public awareness and prevention programme. Some Zambians, including myself, volunteered to help the Ministry of Health in information dissemination. I helped translate the WHO guidelines into Nsenga. It is a language spoken mainly by an indigenous ethnic group, Nsenga, found in the Eastern province of Zambia."
As the evaluation fraternity moves towards UN 2030 vision, there is an increase in the number of ... more As the evaluation fraternity moves towards UN 2030 vision, there is an increase in the number of practicing indigenous evaluators in the world. Some of them have been joining the calls for the recognition and use of culturally appropriate or responsive indigenous evaluation methodologies in the practice and theories of evaluation. EvalIndigenous has been since 2015 been leading the calls by some indigenous and non-indigenous evaluators for the recognition of these methodologies. The UN had declared 2015 as the year of evaluation. As the evaluation community prepared for the new decade of global development, i.e. that of the Sustainable Development Goals and whose rallying slogan was that of ''not leaving anyone one behind'', some evaluators had called for acknowledging that racism was at the core of major global systems and reason for underdevelopment of many parts of the world. Evaluation, especially development evaluation dealing with development aid by the global north to disadvantaged communities in the global north and south, is said to be part of this racist system. EvalIndigenous was formally launched in Bishkek during the 3rd Global Evaluation Forum as the 5th member of EvalPartners. It is a partnership of voluntary organisations of evaluation practitioners (VOPES) based in the global north and south. Its main aims are to get indigenous voices heard in global developmental spaces and to champion their agenda in evaluation.
EValForward organised a discusiion on their website on the question of the pervasive western culture on evaluation. It was based on a question raised by Daniel Ticehurst a UK based evaluator. Due to the high interest in the topic, EvalForward in conjunction with EvalIndigenous and EvalPartners organised a webinar on it. The author as a renowned thought leader on the topic and a founding member of EvalIndigenous was invited to present with Daniel Ticehurst. The webinar was held on 24th October 2022. This day being the 58th anniversary of Zambia's independence.
STRENGTHENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND CAPACITY FOR EVALUATION: ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT'S PARTNERSHIPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS, 2017
This is a presentation made by John T. Njovu and Ms. Prudence Kaoma at the UNDP National Evaluati... more This is a presentation made by John T. Njovu and Ms. Prudence Kaoma at the UNDP National Evaluation Capacity conference in 2017 on Zambia's efforts to build its National Evaluation Capacity for the purpose of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The cooperating partners had helped Zambia's government agencies and the national umbrella body of evaluators to build their capacity to carry out monitoring and evaluation of plans and programmes.
This paper is on the partnership between a voluntary organisation of professional evaluators in Z... more This paper is on the partnership between a voluntary organisation of professional evaluators in Zambia, the Zambia Monitoring and Evaluation Association, and the Zambian government, Ministry of National Development Planning, in developing a culture of evaluation in Zambia
Without active civil society and their evaluations, Zambia would still be a colonised nation. It ... more Without active civil society and their evaluations, Zambia would still be a colonised nation. It is the welfare societies and cultural groups of indigenous Africans that were the foundation for the political movements that fought for its independence from the British. After political independence, civil society grew because of the 1970s global oil and financial crises. This was to mitigate the adverse effects on ordinary citizens of the conditionality of borrowing from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and developed nations. The increase in foreign development assistance led to an increase in development projects and programmes along with their associated internal management requirements for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Government, during this time, also started to formulate plans and programmes that required components of M&E (for example, poverty reduction strategies). After the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, M&E rose to prominence in Zambia’s nati...
"I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread t... more "I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread to other countries. On 13 January 2020 a first COVID-19 case outside China was confirmed in Thailand. When Europe got affected and numbers started exponentially rising in Italy and England, I became concerned. "When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic on 11 March and the media increased its coverage, the government started its public awareness and prevention programme. Some Zambians, including myself, volunteered to help the Ministry of Health in information dissemination. I helped translate the WHO guidelines into Nsenga. It is a language spoken mainly by an indigenous ethnic group, Nsenga, found in the Eastern province of Zambia."
"I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread t... more "I started taking notice of the coronavirus outbreak when it started to quickly spread to other countries. On 13 January 2020 a first COVID-19 case outside China was confirmed in Thailand. When Europe got affected and numbers started exponentially rising in Italy and England, I became concerned. "When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic on 11 March and the media increased its coverage, the government started its public awareness and prevention programme. Some Zambians, including myself, volunteered to help the Ministry of Health in information dissemination. I helped translate the WHO guidelines into Nsenga. It is a language spoken mainly by an indigenous ethnic group, Nsenga, found in the Eastern province of Zambia."
As the evaluation fraternity moves towards UN 2030 vision, there is an increase in the number of ... more As the evaluation fraternity moves towards UN 2030 vision, there is an increase in the number of practicing indigenous evaluators in the world. Some of them have been joining the calls for the recognition and use of culturally appropriate or responsive indigenous evaluation methodologies in the practice and theories of evaluation. EvalIndigenous has been since 2015 been leading the calls by some indigenous and non-indigenous evaluators for the recognition of these methodologies. The UN had declared 2015 as the year of evaluation. As the evaluation community prepared for the new decade of global development, i.e. that of the Sustainable Development Goals and whose rallying slogan was that of ''not leaving anyone one behind'', some evaluators had called for acknowledging that racism was at the core of major global systems and reason for underdevelopment of many parts of the world. Evaluation, especially development evaluation dealing with development aid by the global north to disadvantaged communities in the global north and south, is said to be part of this racist system. EvalIndigenous was formally launched in Bishkek during the 3rd Global Evaluation Forum as the 5th member of EvalPartners. It is a partnership of voluntary organisations of evaluation practitioners (VOPES) based in the global north and south. Its main aims are to get indigenous voices heard in global developmental spaces and to champion their agenda in evaluation.
EValForward organised a discusiion on their website on the question of the pervasive western culture on evaluation. It was based on a question raised by Daniel Ticehurst a UK based evaluator. Due to the high interest in the topic, EvalForward in conjunction with EvalIndigenous and EvalPartners organised a webinar on it. The author as a renowned thought leader on the topic and a founding member of EvalIndigenous was invited to present with Daniel Ticehurst. The webinar was held on 24th October 2022. This day being the 58th anniversary of Zambia's independence.
STRENGTHENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND CAPACITY FOR EVALUATION: ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT'S PARTNERSHIPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS, 2017
This is a presentation made by John T. Njovu and Ms. Prudence Kaoma at the UNDP National Evaluati... more This is a presentation made by John T. Njovu and Ms. Prudence Kaoma at the UNDP National Evaluation Capacity conference in 2017 on Zambia's efforts to build its National Evaluation Capacity for the purpose of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The cooperating partners had helped Zambia's government agencies and the national umbrella body of evaluators to build their capacity to carry out monitoring and evaluation of plans and programmes.
This paper is on the partnership between a voluntary organisation of professional evaluators in Z... more This paper is on the partnership between a voluntary organisation of professional evaluators in Zambia, the Zambia Monitoring and Evaluation Association, and the Zambian government, Ministry of National Development Planning, in developing a culture of evaluation in Zambia
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EValForward organised a discusiion on their website on the question of the pervasive western culture on evaluation. It was based on a question raised by Daniel Ticehurst a UK based evaluator. Due to the high interest in the topic, EvalForward in conjunction with EvalIndigenous and EvalPartners organised a webinar on it. The author as a renowned thought leader on the topic and a founding member of EvalIndigenous was invited to present with Daniel Ticehurst. The webinar was held on 24th October 2022. This day being the 58th anniversary of Zambia's independence.
EValForward organised a discusiion on their website on the question of the pervasive western culture on evaluation. It was based on a question raised by Daniel Ticehurst a UK based evaluator. Due to the high interest in the topic, EvalForward in conjunction with EvalIndigenous and EvalPartners organised a webinar on it. The author as a renowned thought leader on the topic and a founding member of EvalIndigenous was invited to present with Daniel Ticehurst. The webinar was held on 24th October 2022. This day being the 58th anniversary of Zambia's independence.