Given that the United Nations declared 2015 the International Year of Evaluation and a resolution urging member countries to strengthen their evaluation capacity was signed by 41 countries, (a) why South Africa did not sign the resolution despite the fact the other four BRICS countries endorsed the agreement, (b) what steps is The Presidency taking to strengthen monitoring and evaluation capacity internally and (c) has The Presidency evaluated itself regarding its own (i) capacity and (ii) requisite expertise; if so, (aa) what was the outcome of its evaluation and (bb) what remedial action has been taken to address any shortcomings?