Archive for June, 2008
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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