The flagship activities are the key activities and initiatives that have been identified as key to implementing the objectives of the strategic plan. These include the following programs:
ZaMEA Upskilling: The objective of this activity is to promote capacity building activities for members. This uses both a training approach and a seminar/meeting approach .The board identifies capacity needs every year through the competency survey and feedback from general members on their capacity needs.
ZaMEA Internship & Mentorship Program: This will be an annual program that will target the upcoming M&E practitioners. The objective of this program is to provide mentorship and internship opportunities to upcoming M&E practitioners to become competent, experienced and well-networked professionals to contribute to development at national, regional and international levels.
Evaluation Week: The LOCAL Evaluation week is an initiative of the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR-AA) which aims to contribute to M&E awareness raising and knowledge sharing efforts globally. It is a designated week of evaluation knowledge sharing and networking. ZaMEA domesticates this activity and have it as an annual event.
ZaMEA Barometer: The ZaMEA Barometer is an assessment tool that is used to help individual and corporate members to assess their competency levels in M&E and for corporate members to assess the functionality of their M&E systems. The Barometer results are key in designing capacity building interventions.
ZaMEA Brief: This is used as a communication tool to publish and promote ideas, experiences, information and developments in monitoring and evaluation theory and practice to the profession and a broader audience of policymakers, program developers/managers and service delivery organizations.