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BMZ/GIZ “Systemic
Approaches in Evaluation” Conference Documentation Now
Available
The conference, held January 25 – 26, 2011 in Eschborn/Germany, has now
posted details of its keynote
speeches and panel
discussions on the conference
website.
View the Equity For
Children – May E-Newsletter
View the May newsletter here.
SLEvA 2011 International Conference:
Evaluation for Policy and Action
June, 6 – 10, 2011: Colombo, Sri Lanka
This year’s conference is expected to bring
together 150 professionals in evaluation, academics and members
of the regional and global evaluation associations, and an opportunity
to share knowledge and learn the initiatives in South Asia.
For more information, visit the Conference
Website.
Equity For Children March 2011 E-Newsletter
Read
the March 2011 newsletter
2011 AEA Annual Conference – Call
for Proposals: International Travel Awards for Conference Presenters:
Submission Deadline March 18, 2011
The American Evaluation Association
is pleased to invite professional evaluators living
and practicing in developing countries or countries
in transition to submit
proposals for travel subsidies to attend and
present at the 2011
AEA Annual Conference.
UNITED NATION DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME – EVALUATION
NEWS
Evaluation News is a monthly email alert service
of the Evaluation Office of UNDP
Issue: October
2010
The evaluation function works to
enhance the development effectiveness of UNDP to
help men and women build a better life. It strengthens
accountability and learning through evaluation
and partnership.
Agence
intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
Updated: Friday, July 15, 2005 08:14 PM
http://evaluation.francophonie.org More >>
Regional Activities and
Expectations of the IOCE Board - 2004
Updated:
Monday, November 01, 2004 03:10 PM
As you will have seen from reports on the Kuala Lumpur and Bonn meetings we
are at last moving forward on the IOCE project. More >>
Les Journées francophones
de l’évaluation
Updated: Monday,
November 01, 2004 03:05 PM
The Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (AIF) is an agency formed
by the Organisation intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, made up of 51
states and countries which share the French language. The leaders of member
states and countries meet every two years. More >>
Equity for Children E-Newsletter – February,
2011
Take a moment to review this month’s
newsletter.
UNITED NATION DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME – EVALUATION NEWS
Evaluation News is a monthly email
alert service of the Evaluation Office of UNDP
Issue: October 2010
The evaluation function works to
enhance the development effectiveness of UNDP to
help men
and women build a better life. It strengthens accountability
and learning through evaluation and partnership.
UNICEF and partners gather
260 participants in two webinars to discuss the
role of evaluation in development
Within the UNICEF/UNDP/WFP/UNIFEM/ILO/IOCE/DevInfo
series of monthly live webinars
on "National Evaluation Capacity Development” (to
access the full
programme with authors of the new book “From
policies to results. Developing national
capacities for country M&E systems”,
260 participants from all over
the world joined the first two webinars to discuss
the role of evaluation to ensure meaningful and lasting development
results.
The first webinar with Saraswathi Menon,
Director, Evaluation Office, UNDP,
and Chair, UN Evaluation Group, and Finbar O’Brien,
Director, Evaluation Office,
UNICEF, focused on “the Role of the
UN in fostering national
ownership and capacities in evaluation”. Saraswathi
Menon described the important
progress done by the evaluation function so far.
However, she also
acknowledged its potential is not fully realized
to promote public action. In order to do so, Finbar O’Brien explained
evaluation should shift
from being donor-led toward being country-led, thus
serving the information needs
of programme countries. Marco Segone, in his concluding
remarks,
highlighted the main roles of the UN in fostering
national ownership, including
by strengthening national evaluation capacities of
national and
local governments, as well as Civil Society Organizations,
to demand, plan, conduct
and use evaluations. The recording of the webinar
is available
here.
The
second webinar with Michael Quinn Patton, Founder
and Director, Utilization-focused evaluation, and former President
of the American
Evaluation Association, and Marco Segone, Systemic
management, UNICEF
Evaluation Office, and Senior advisor to the IOCE
Executive Board and
former Vice President, focused on “Future trends
in evaluation”. Michael
Quinn Patton spoke about six future trends, notably
Globalization of the
profession; Evaluation as a transdiscipline; Increased
political importance
of M&E; Growing emphasis on capacity-building
and essential skills; Debate
about methods, including the Gold standard debate;
and using systems
thinking and complexity concepts. Marco Segone further
developed the debate
on growing importance of evaluation capacity development.
He presented a
framework to strengthen national capacities for country-led
M&E systems
that addresses both demand and supply side, while
strengthening the
enabling environment, as well as institutional and
individual capacities.
The recording of the webinar is available
here.
We
are looking forward to the next webinar in September
with Caroline Heider,
Director, WFP Evaluation Office, and Craig Russon,
Senior Evaluation Specialist, ILO Evaluation Office.
UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo
launch MyM&E, a new interactive web 2.0 tool
to strengthen
national capacities for country M&E systems
UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo, in partnership with
several major stakeholders, have launched MyM&E,
accessible at www.mymande.org.
MyM&E is an interactive web 2.0
platform to facilitate social networking and strengthening national capacities on Country-led
M&E systems worldwide.
In addition to being a learning resource, the platform
is a valuable tool
for creating a global community, as well as identifying
good practices and
lessons learned, on Country-led M&E systems.
Through
MyM&E users are able to:
- add to growing knowledge
by contributing to the WikiEvaluation and uploading
new documents and videos;
- comment on existing articles,
videos and webinars;
- interact in real time through webinars and blogs;
- be part of a professional M&E social community by creating their
own social profile in LinkedIn
- learn from selected practical
handbooks, manuals and books accessible in the
virtual library;
- access technical advice
through the practical “how to” guidance
on
how to plan, conduct and use M&E systems and evaluations;
- search an inventory of
training delivered by different institutions
all over the world; and,
- post their CV (in the case
of evaluators offering services) as well
as their own vacancies (in the case of institutions looking for
evaluators) in international evaluation rosters.
For additional information, please
get in contact with Marco Segone, UNICEF Evaluation Office, at msegone@unicef.org.
CALL
FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
to host a regional center in Africa
CLEAR (Regional Centers for
Learning on Evaluation and Results) is
a multiregional initiative, whose goal is to contribute
to strengthening the monitoring, evaluation, and
results-based management capacity of countries
and their governments to achieve development outcomes.
CLEAR will support academic/training institutions
based in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia
to develop and provide demand-driven, cost-effective,
and sustainable capacity development services in
monitoring, evaluation, and performance management.
CLEAR will support the centers for fi ve years,
with the expectation that the centers will begin
developing other sources of revenue during this
period.
CLEAR is inviting expressions
of interest (EOIs) from existing academic/training
institutions based in Africa to host the Africa
regional center. CLEAR expects to contribute
approximately $1 million per year for the first
three years and lesser amounts in the remaining
two years to help the selected institution(s) achieve
international quality standards in the areas covered
by the program and to reach fi nancial self-suffi
ciency within that period.
The Africa center will be selected
through a two-stage process. Institutions will be
shortlisted based on the EOIs they provide. The shortlisted
institutions will be invited to present full proposals
for the fi nal selection. The selected center will
provide demand-based capacity development and technical
and advisory services to governments, civil society,
and other potential clients. The deadline
to submit EOIs is March 30, 2010.
Further information on CLEAR and instructions
for submitting the EOI are available at http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/clear.
Requests for further information should be sent to clear@worldbank.org,
attention: Ms. Ximena Fernandez Ordonez, Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG), the World Bank Group.
Download the CLEAR
Description for more information on the CLEAR
initiative.
CLEAR Africa is supported by the
AfDB, SIDA, DfID, and the World Bank Group, with
the Secretariat currently housed in IEG.
Editor for UNICEF
South Asia Evaluation Journal
Updated: Monday, March 5, 2007 11:28 AM
This Terms of Reference is the basis of a consultancy
to assist in the editing
and design of a South Asia Evaluation Journal...
More>>
New Evaluation Association
– Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA)
Updated: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:20 AM
The web site will be operational by the end of December at
http://www.anzea.org.nz/
ReLAC web site launched
at www.relacweb.org.
Updated: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:20 AM
Evaluation of Sustainability
– European Conference & Training Courses (EASY-ECO)
Updated: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:54
AM
Newsletter November 2006 featuring training courses and resources
... More>>
Joint UNICEF/IPEN
Evaluation Working Paper on "New trends in development evaluation"
Updated: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:54 AM
The joint UNICEF/IPEN Evaluation Working Paper on "New trends
in development evaluation" ... More>>
IDEAS-RELAC Joint
Conference: Concept Paper
May 3-5, 2007
Updated: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:44 AM
We are pleased to advise that a concept paper is now available,
giving details... More>>
Resources for Evaluation
and Social Research Methods
Updated: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:34
AM
This site links to on line books, manuals and guides about evaluation
and social research methods, More>>
What Constitutes
Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research?
Updated: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:14
AM
Dear friends and colleagues, If you were not able to come to the
2006 Claremont Symposium More>>
AfrEA 2007 Announced
Fourth Annual AfrEA Conference, Niamey, Niger (West Africa)
January 17 to 21 2007
Updated: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 03:49
PM
Evaluate Development, Develop Evaluation – a promising
network for Africa's future More>>
World Bank Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG) Newsletter (Aug 2006)
Updated: Sunday, September 10, 2006 01:49
PM
Read the first issue of the Independent Evaluation Group’s
newsletter. More>>
Pakistan Evaluation
Network (PEN) releases marketing brochure
Updated: Sunday, September 10, 2006 01:24
PM
Pakistan Evaluation Network - PEN is a professional network that
has been initiated in 2004 to strengthen building a socially responsible
society by More>>
ReLAC Executive Committee
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2005 07:2a9 PM
The ReLAC Executive Committee now has a contact address... More >>
Argentinian Evaluation Network
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2005 07:28 PM
A meeting was held in April this year in the premises of the University Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, which was attended by Osvaldo Feinstein as guest participant and exhibitor. More >>
Meeting for the establishment of a Steering Group for the Salvadorean Monitoring and Evaluation Network
Updated: Friday, October 28, 2005 07:24 PM
Additional information... More >>
EASY-ECO 2005-2007: Evaluation of Sustainability
Updated: Friday, July 15, 2005 08:57 PM
European Conferences and Training Courses. More >>
Agence
intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
Updated: Friday, July 15, 2005 08:14 PM
http://evaluation.francophonie.org More >>
Regional Activities and Expectations of the IOCE Board - 2004
Updated: Monday, November 01, 2004 03:10 PM
As you will have seen from reports on the Kuala Lumpur and Bonn meetings we are at last moving forward on the IOCE project. More >>
Les Journées francophones de l’évaluation
Updated: Monday, November 01, 2004 03:05 PM
The Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (AIF) is an agency formed by the Organisation intergouvernementale
de la Francophonie, made up of 51 states and countries which share the French language. The
leaders of member states and countries meet every two years. More >>
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