Ms Zeenat Ishmail currently holds the position of Chief Director: Provincial Strategic Management Information within the Department of the Premier, Western Cape Government (WCG) since 2008. She has provided strategic leadership to ensure the effective design of the Provincial-wide Monitoring and Evaluation System (PWMES); including putting in place a Results-based M&E model. She has been instrumental in provincialising the National Evaluation System (NES) for the WCG. She currently drives the institutionalisation of Province-wide Data Governance across the provincial departments. Zeenat had the opportunity to share the WCG story on the emergence of the NES at a provincial level; and the key successes relating to the evaluation journey at various national, regional and international platforms. She serves on the national Evaluation Technical Working Group of South Africa. She is the WCG representative on the South African Statistics Council. She also oversees the management of the province-wide forums for M&E, programme and project management and Spatial Information and Data Governance.