Postion: research fellow
Email:  Andrew. Asibey@governance.unimaas.nl

Work experience and educational background
Andrew Asibey is a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with the Results and Learning Group in the Africa Region of the World Bank.  Andrew has worked in M&E and policy related issues for than 25 years. Prior to joining the World Bank, he served as an M&E Advisor to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago under the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation. Also, Andrew has worked with the Federal Government of Canada, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), and the International Planned Parenthood Federation-Africa Regional Office (IPPF-AR), Nairobi, Kenya where he assisted family planning networks to improve their M&E systems in over 40 countries as a Regional M&E Coordinator.

Andrew holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Also, he completed a PhD course work at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, specializing in the Political Economy of Developing Countries (Major) and Public Administration and Public Policy (Minor).

Research Interest
It focuses on why and how civil society organizations (CSOs) in Sub Saharan Africa could be mainstreamed in the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of PRSPs to ensure access, transparency, and accountability.  The research will explore the theoretical construct for access, transparency, and accountability in the role of CSOs in monitoring and evaluating PRSPs.  It will investigate the following questions: (1) Why is it necessary for CSOs in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) to participate in the identification of PRSP priorities and needs and in their implementation, monitoring and evaluation? ; (2) What are the institutional arrangements for monitoring and evaluating PRSPs? ; (3) What has been the influence of CSOs in the context of PRSPs? ; and (4) what is the link between CSOs, access, transparency, accountability, and democracy?

The research will be based on triangulation of multiple sources of data, using cross country comparisons from at least five countries in SSA that have at least undergone a second cycle of PRSPs.