Become a Member

SAMEA membership, available through annual subscriptions for individuals, students, and institutions dedicated to monitoring and evaluation, offers exclusive discounts on workshops, seminars, and conferences, while also strengthening your ties to the SAMEA community and enhancing networking and professional development opportunities.

What are the Benefits?

Membership Benefits

Join SAMEA to take advantage of exclusive member discounts for all SAMEA workshops, seminars, and highly anticipated conferences.

Build your Network Capital
Access live, virtual discussions, debates and presentations
Promote your services, share your experiences and seek advice
Access reserved resources, job opportunity postings, and discussion groups
Save costs on event participation

Annual Membership Fees

Specific Benefits Student Individual Institutional
Annual Fee (as is) R100 R420 R10000
Members per registration 1 1 15
Discounted rates to all fee-based SAMEA events
Discounted rates for marketing and exhibition space for all SAMEA events
Direct electronic communication via the SAMEA newsletter
Reserved space for notices in the SAMEA newsletter
Qualify for scholarships/bursaries to events for Emerging Evaluators based on criteria
Opportunity to publicly list as a member on the SAMEA website
Access to reserved resources on the SAMEA website
Formal recognition and acknowledgement of your organisation on the SAMEA website
Opportunity to advertise services on the SAMEA website
Right to participate in the affairs and decision-making process of the association such as Annual General Meetings and the election of board members
Automatic membership of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) with all associated membership benefits for all individuals falling under the institutional membership

Requirements to Join a
SAMEA Membership Type

  • There are no requirements to join an individual or institutional membership but all active SAMEA members must agree to observe the Code of Professional Values and Conduct of the Association as part of the membership registration process.

  • Students must submit a copy of their current course schedule to qualify for the discounted membership fee.

Group registration discounts

  • Whenever groups of five (5) or more individual or student members are registered together at the same time, the total membership fees will qualify for a discount of 10%.

  • Students must submit a copy of their current course schedule to qualify for the discounted membership fee.

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How to become an Institutional Member

  • A member of the organisation will request a quotation from SAMEA ([email protected])

  • SAMEA will send the institution a quotation and a registration document which the members will fill in. (All members who will be part of the institutional membership plan will have to register as SAMEA members to get a membership number which is to be used in the registration document).

  • Once the form has been completed, the organisation will share the registration document with SAMEA ([email protected]) along with a purchase order or proof of payment.

  • An invoice will thereafter be sent to the organisation by SAMEA and the membership will be activated.

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