Archive for April, 2008

UKES Annual Conference 2008, October 2008

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Changing Contexts for Evaluation and Professional Action UKES Annual Conference 2008 23-24 October 2008 The Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel Call for abstracts The UKES Annual Conference 2008 will be held on 23-24 October at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel, preceded on 22 October by a programme of Training and Professional Development Workshops. The closing ...

The European Evaluation Society Conference, Lisbon 2008

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(Via multiple email lists) Dear Colleagues, EES Biennial Conference in Lisbon, Portugal 1-3 October 2008. 'Building for the future: Evaluation in governance, development and progress'. The European Evaluation Society is pleased to announce that the response to our request for EES conference submissions has been very good and in general of high standard. Due to ...

The May 2008 Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(from Eval-Sys email list) Dear Colleagues The Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School (http://www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/ruhbc/evaluation/summerschool2008) is now in its 3rd year;  the prior summer schools  have attracted interest from evaluators and planners from all disciplines. As in prior years, the Summer School faculty will include world class evaluation scholars and practitioners. As well as providing a platform of learning from ...

next Outcome Mapping training workshop in Europe

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(from the OM email list) Colleagues, This is to let you know that MDF Training & Consulting will be hosting my next Outcome Mapping training workshop in Europe at its headquarters in Ede, The Netherlands, April 22-24, 2008. You can see the full description of this introductory course at: http://www.mdf.nl/index.php/page/85/outcome-mapping?mod[MDFCourseCalendarModule][item ]=95 If you have ...

Monday Developments issue on NGO accountability

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(via Niels Keijzer on the Pelikan email list) The December 2007 issue of Monday Developments, a monthly magazine published by InterAction (the largest coalition of NGOs in the United States), explores key accountability issues for NGOs. Through various angles, the issue looks into "(...) the conflicts organizations face with scarce resources, demanding missions and the ...

Evaluation of Results Based Management at UNDP

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

(via Niels Keijzer on the Pelikan email list) The United Nations Development Programme's independent evaluation office has recently examined the agency's adoption of results based management (RBM). I would like to refer to this evaluation in relation to our recent exchanges around changing information needs, and the 'missing middle' due to the emphasis on collecting ...

Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) Training Course

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Dear Colleague, The College of Europe and Jacobs and Associates Europe invite you to participate in our 5-Day Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) Training Course on the principles, procedures, and methods of RIA. This practical, hands-on, course was given in March, and due to demand, will be offered ...

The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF 3)

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF 3) will be hosted in Accra by the Government of Ghana on 2-4 September 2008. The HLF 3 builds on several previous high level international meetings, most notably the 2003 Rome HLF which highlighted the issue of harmonisation and alignment, and ...