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THE AERC 2020–2025 STRATEGIC PLAN

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1. African Economic Research Consortium: A Revised Evaluation Report. Aryeetey and
Stewart, May 2019.

2. Ibid.
3. Aryeety and Stewart.

4. AERC brochure, March 2019.
5. Ibid.

6. African Economic Research Consortium (2008), Twenty Years of Capacity Building in
sub-Saharan Africa (1988–2008).

7. The Government of Kenya (GoK) in partnership with AERC initiated the Capacity
Building Project for Economic Policy Analysis in 2010 to strengthen policy analysis
and economic management capacities in the National Treasury. The GoK provided
funds to AERC over a period of six years to undertake five key objectives: (i) creating
a critical mass of high level qualified experts (researchers) at the National Treasury
through AERC’s collaborative Master’s and PhD programmes; (ii) conducting short-
term placement of graduate trainees and contract policy analysts in the Treasury
so as to enrich practical knowledge in economic research and policy analysis;
(iii) institutionalizing economic policy analysis by reorganizing the Directorate of
Economic Affairs; (iv) building the Treasury Macro Model for policy analysis – via
simulation of various policy scenarios and solving economic problems in the short-
to-medium term – and providing an indication of medium-term scenarios; and (v)
encouraging policy debate among Kenyan economists through conducting annual
economic conferences. Achievements realized under the Project are: 97 master’s
and 80 PhD students enrolled into the AERC training programmes; 60 master’s
graduate trainees recruited as interns at the National Treasury to serve their
three-year training bond period; 23 master’s graduate trainees who successfully
completed their internship have been directly absorbed by the National Treasury
as Economists II; and three senior policy analysts with at least 10 years relevant
experience have been recruited to support policy analysis at the National Treasury.
8. See: http://www.oecd.org/dac/evaluation/
daccriteriaforevaluatingdevelopmentassistance.htm

9. Patton, M., 2000. Utilisation-Focused Evaluation, in Stufflebeam, D.L., Madaus, G.F.
and Kellaghan, T., (eds) Evaluation Models, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

10. Ibid. See pp.436–437.
11. AERC will develop a matrix that relates the quality of different areas of economics
measured against global standards and track progression over time.

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