About Us
Monitoring and evaluation professionals association of Kenya (MEPAK) was started informally in January 2016 by concerned professionals having noticed that most African countries including Kenya did not achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) that ended in 2015. Further analysis demonstrated that countries that had achieved some of the MDGs had effectively used data to galvanize their development efforts, implement their targeted interventions and track performance.
With the global agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030, this epistemic community recognizes that the SDG agenda is even more complex. The SDGs do not only include continuation of MDGs but integration of other goals including sustainability and social inclusion. Therefore the governments, programmes and projects have a more complex set of turbulences and business cannot be done as usual and expect different results.
The MEPAK professionals have aggressively advocated for use of evidence for decisions and policymaking, mentored organizations and institution on ways to enhance their M&E systems and participated in events, forums and documentations to share findings and best practices nationally, regionally and internationally.
MEPAK understands that like the SDGs, its goals will be achieved through a multi stakeholder’s process. The professional body engages across the public and private sector, civil society, community-based organizations, and individuals in their own motivation, Scientists, academia, researchers, think tanks, and foundations to mention a few.MEPAK was officially registered in 2018 by the office of the Attorney General, Department of the registrar, and vetted by the NIS as stipulated in the Societies ACT (CAP. 108) laws of Kenya.
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Membership Benefit
- Electronic access to all documents, materials and posted trainings in MEPAK sites
- Facilitated reduced forum fees and mobilized bursaries for members participating in events and conferences.
- Reduced registration rates for professional development events.
- Learning: Electronically receive newsletters, downloads, research and evaluation results, trainings, and webinars etc on diverse issues.
- Promote your services and profile: Opportunity to post information on the website such as jobs, consultancies, tenders, trainings and events among others.
- Networking: Opportunities for networking and sharing information with other professionals.
- Access directory of members with different specialization and skills for collaboration.
- Access to other regional and international organizations and groups.
- Collaborate on activities such as research, consultancies, proposals and grants writing, manuscripts and trainings on areas of M&E, SDGs and development among others.