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Date: 23-24 October 2008
Venue: The Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel
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 date for call for abstracts is 23 May 2008.
Date: 1-3 October 2008
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
‘Building for the future: Evaluation in governance, development and progress’
Programme
The conference will comprise keynote speakers, plenary and parallel sessions, networking opportunities and social events.
The main programme will commence at 19.00 on Wednesday 1 October and close with a reception at 18.00 on Friday 3 October.
The conference will be preceded by a programme of Pre-Conference Training and Professional Development Workshops commencing on Tuesday Morning 30 September and closing at 16.30 hrs on Wednesday 1 October (4 half day sessions). Read more about how you can contribute to these sessions.
The programme will include the following keynote presentations:
Development Evaluation at a Crossroads?
Niels Dabelstein, Evaluation of the Paris Declaration, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark
Evaluation and policy implementation in multi-level governance.
Nicoletta Stame, Professor of Social Policy, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Evaluating drug policies in the European Union: current situation and future directions
Dra. Maria Moreira, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Portugal
Making evaluation more useful for determining development effectiveness
Dr Vinod Thomas, Director-General, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank Group, Washington DC, USA
Parallel Sessions
We received over 350 abstracts from participants from 49 countries world-wide. These submissions will be presented in themed parallel sessions of papers, symposia, roundtables, panel/debates, posters and other innovative formats. A full programme will be available well in advance of the conference from this website.
Parallel sessions will be grouped under the following strands:
1. Methodological choices and approaches
2. Ethical practice, evaluation standards and professional development
3. Evaluation and its role in policy implementation and programme intervention
4. Evaluation and building informal social capital
5. International evaluation and evaluation in developing countries
6. Evaluation and organisational development
7. Encouraging evaluation use
Date: May 26th – 28th
Venue: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
(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 world class evaluation scholars
and practitioners, the Summer School also fosters a community of learning
and gives participants a platform to raise questions and discuss topics
relevant to evaluation.
The Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School will this year take place on the
following dates:
May 19th – 21st: Evaluations and Inequalities
May 26th – 28th: Getting Real About Impact Evaluation
Further details on each class and how to secure your place on this
year’s courses can be found on the Summer School website.
http://www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/ruhbc/evaluation/summerschool2008/index.html
This website will be updated regularly so please check periodically.
Don’t hesitate to reach us at RUHBC.SummerSchool@ed.ac.uk if
you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Sanjeev Sridharan
Head Evaluation Programme
RUHBC
University of Edinburgh
Teviot Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9AG
Scotland, UK
Date: April 22-24, 2008
Venue: Ede, The Netherlands
(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
If you have colleagues or partners who may be interested, they can register at:
http://www.mdf.nl/index.php/page/85
Cheers,
Terry
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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 need to evaluate progress and
effectiveness.”
The articles include views on the topic from development donors, the
Humanitarian Accountability Project, the importance of listening for
accountability, implications for evaluation standards and practice,
downward accountability, …
You can download the magazine here:
http://www.interaction.org/files.cgi/6117_MDDec2007.pdf
The UNDP website summarises the evaluation results as follows:
“The evaluation concludes that UNDP is largely managing for outputs rather
than outcomes and that the linkages between outputs and intended outcomes
are not clearly articulated. The introduction of corporate systems and
tools, which have had some efficiency benefits, have not however,
strengthened the culture of results in the organization or improved
programmatic focus at the country level. The current approach of defining
and reporting against centrally defined outcomes tends to undermine UNDP’s
responsiveness and alignment to nationally defined outcomes and
priorities. The evaluation makes a number of recommendations to address
these and other challenges.”
Here is a link to a page on the UNDP website, where you can download the
report, the individual chapters, and the management response:
http://www.undp.org/eo/thematic/rbm.html
Date: 6-10 October
Venue: College of Europe, Bruges Campus, Belgium
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 two more times in 2008 — in June and October. The course, by the most experienced public policy and RIA trainers in Europe, is expressly designed for policy officials and executives who use RIA to improve policy results.
The course will benefit any official using RIA in environmental, social and economic fields as well as stakeholders such as business associations, NGOs and consultants who want to understand better how to use RIA constructively. The course is open for subscription worldwide and is presented in the historic city of Bruges, Belgium. A discount is offered for early registration.
Information on RIA Training Course
2008 DATES: 23-27 June and 6-10 October (each course is 5 full days)
LOCATION: College of Europe, Bruges Campus, Belgium
REGISTRATION : For more information and application form go to www.coleurope.eu/ria2008
COST:
REGISTRATION DEADLINES:
Early registration for the June course runs until 11 May 2008.
Registration closes 1 June 2008.Early registration for the October course runs until 10 August 2008.
Registration closes on 14 September 2008.
OPEN : World-wide (only 40 seats available per session)
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English
COURSE OFFERED BY: College of Europe and Jacobs and Associates Europe
The College of Europe provides a wide range of professional training courses, workshops and tailor-made seminars on the European Union in general or on targeted issues. For more information, please visit:
www.coleurope.eu/training or contact Mrs. Annelies Deckmyn by email: adeckmyn@coleurop.be
Jacobs and Associates continues to offer its tailored RIA training courses on-site around the world, adapted to the client’s needs. To discuss an on-site RIA course, contact ria@regulatoryreform.com. For information on the full range of regulatory reform work by Jacobs and Associates, see http://www.regulatoryreform.com/.
Best wishes,
Scott Jacobs
Managing Director, Jacobs and Associates Europe
Date: 2-4 September 2008
Venue: Accra, Ghana
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 the 2005 Paris HLF which culminated with the endorsement of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness by over 100 signatories from partner governments, bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, regional development banks, and international agencies. The primary intention of the HLF 3 is to take stock and review the progress made in implementing the Paris Declaration, also broaden and deepen the dialogue on aid effectiveness by giving ample space and voice to partner countries and newer actors (such as Civil Society Organsations and emerging donors). It is also a forward-looking event which will identify the action needed and bottlenecks to overcome in order to make progress in improving aid effectiveness for 2010 and beyond. The HLF 3 will be organised as a three-tier structure: * The Marketplace, which will provide an opportunity for a wide range of actors to showcase good and innovative practices and lessons from promoting aid effectiveness; * Roundtable meetings, which will provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion on selected key issues to facilitate and support decision taking and policy endorsement on aid effectiveness; and * Ministerial-Level Meeting, which is expected to conclude the HLF 3 with an endorsement of a ministerial statement based on high-level discussions and negotiation around key issues.
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