Capacity Building Program
Dr. Alfred Latigo lectures on Africa's social & economic development to students at the Universities of Benin and Parakou, West Africa, 2012 on the invitation of Prof. Jules Dégila, Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Benin and Board Director, ScaleX Labs.
Why Capacity Building?
Across low- and middle-income countries, governments, international agencies, and civil society organizations increasingly need to know how their policies and programs shape people's lives — today and for generations to come. The consensus is now firm: national development should be guided by evidence from country-led monitoring and evaluation systems, not donor-led ones, and not by opinion.
Africa has made this an explicit commitment. The African Union's 2014 Malabo Declaration bound member states to evidence-based planning, review, and accountability — and, crucially, to strengthening national and regional capacities for knowledge generation that support evidence-based planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
But a commitment to evidence is only as strong as the capacity to produce it — and that capacity remains scarce. Too few professionals are trained in rigorous evaluation, and demand far outpaces supply. Closing that gap takes two things at once: building the skills of the people who do the work, and giving them tools that extend their reach. GIDE and ScaleX Labs do both.
Our Objective
GIDE's capacity-building program strengthens national policymakers, researchers, and civil society organizations to build and sustain country-led evaluation systems and policies for inclusive green growth.
How We Deliver — GIDE Expertise, Delivered at Scale
GIDE designs the curriculum and provides the specialist faculty and methods — Impact Evaluation (Systematic Reviews), Performance Evaluation of projects, programs, and policies, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Mainstreaming Regional Integration.
Our technology affiliate, ScaleX Labs, delivers this training at scale through the ScaleX Labs Academy — blended, self-paced, and offline-first, so professionals across Africa can learn regardless of connectivity. The Academy also pairs learning with the very tools practitioners use on the job — the AI-Powered MEL System and GenTraQ™ — so capacity building translates directly into practice.
Participants can choose instructor-led, highly participatory seminars and continue at their own pace online, or follow instructor-facilitated online learning. Professionals in government, non-governmental organizations, and academia — across the environmental sciences, political science, and economics — will find these programs strengthen their decision-making.
Partners
To realize this objective, GIDE and its partners work with and draw support from bilateral and international development agencies across Africa, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World Bank.
Course Faculty
Dr. Alfred Latigo, Prof. Raphael O. Olaniyan, and Prof. Francis Ejobi.
Capacity building is where our founding principle is most visible — we invest in people first, and the platform multiplies their reach. People lead. AI strengthens.