Archive for June, 2008

Event: Navigating Complexity – An innovation dialogue

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Date: May 26-27, 2008 Venue: Wageningen International, Netherlands. [Ten presentations given at this event are now available online] What does complexity thinking mean for development interventions? This innovation dialogue offers a unique opportunity for exploring how emerging insights from the complexity sciences and systems thinking, combined with field practice, could reshape ...

Conference: What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 to Friday, May 30, 2008 Venue: The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC Event Summary: Bill Easterly and Jessica Cohen of Brookings recently convened a conference with leading development experts to explore one of the most vexing issues of global development: what do we really ...

Conference: EVALUATING THE COMPLEX

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Date: 29 – 30 May 2008 Venue: Oslo, Norway Norad’s Evaluation Department and Oslo University College is planning to hold a two-days conference entitled Evaluating the Complex. The purpose of this conference is to promote interest in and discussions about the role of evaluations in Norway. The main target group is ...

Workshop: Standards & Practices in Evaluating Development

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Date: August 3-8, 2008 Venue: University of Bamako, Mali Organizer: Association pour la Promotion de l’Evaluation au Mali (APEM) – Bamako - Mali Mamadou Keita – President (mkeita@delta- c.org) Workshop Coordinator: Ahmed Ag Aboubacrine, DME Coordinator, CARE International in Sierra Leone, ahmed1996@yahoo. fr This event is part of the 5th Mali ...

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Monday, May 26th, 2008

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Saturday, May 24th, 2008

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Conference: Policy and programme evaluation in Europe: Cultures and prospects

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Date: July 3 and 4, 2008 Venue: European Parliament – Strasbourg (France) Last news ! Reduction of registration fee until the 1st June Registration on line for the symposium: http://www.sfe.asso.fr/fr/strasbourg2008/registration-form.html Click here for the programme: http://www.sfe.asso.fr/fr/strasbourg2008/programme.html Pre-sessions: Meetings to improve connections between evaluators National School of Administration – Strasbourg (France), July 2, 2008 The pre-session programme ...

Evaluation Essentials: Methods For Conducting Sound Research

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Beth Osborne Daponte ISBN: 978-0-7879-8439-7. Paperback.192 pages. July 2008, Jossey-Bass Also available via Amazon "The book introduces students and practitioners to all necessary concepts and tools used to evaluate programs and policies. It focuses on issues that arise when evaluating programs, using those offered by non-profit and governmental organizations serving different sectors (social ...

M&E training to be provided by Development Alternatives, India

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Date: June 05-07, 2008 Venue: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning System (MEAL) Introduction The principle of Monitor what You want to Manage has implications at two critical levels: one, that each monitoring system should be customized to the needs of the project; and second, the monitoring system should be robust and have the ...

Basic Necessities Survey versus Schreiner’s Simple Poverty Scorecard

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

This page compares two simple methods of measuring poverty: The Basic Necessites Survey (BNS) Mark Schreiner's Simple Poverty Scorecard (SPS) The comparison was prompted by an email to the MandE NEWS email list by Atta Ullah in May 2008 asking for a comparison.