Archive for March, 2009

Summer School On Monitoring And Evaluation Of International Programmes And Public Policies

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Date: June 8 to 13, 2009 Venue: CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Bologna The 2009 Summer School On Monitoring And Evaluation Of International Programmes And Public Policies is part of the University of Bologna International Summer School Programme. It is organised by the Centre for International Development (www.cid-bo.org) in cooperation with the Faculty ...

Following the Money: Do Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys matter?

Monday, March 30th, 2009

By Geir Sundet, Anti-Corruption Resource Centre , U4 ISSUE  2008:8  28 pages. PDF The abstract of >this report< is reproduced below: Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, or PETS, are recognized as an effective tool to improve accountability in public finance and service delivery. A Ugandan success with PETS is one of the most ...

Valuing impact: Building an Association of Nonprofit Analysts

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Date: Tuesday 19 May, 2009 Venue: The King's Fund, London The is the first ever international gathering of its kind, and a groundbreaking event for anyone who is passionate about the performance of nonprofit organisations. Join us if you'd like to make contacts ...

2009 Measuring Effectiveness conference – Melbourne

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Date: 17th - 18 September 2009 Venue: Anglis Conference centre, Melbourne Preparations for the fourth annual Measuring Effectiveness conference are currently underway. The conference will again be held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Angliss Conference Centre, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September, 2009. This year the conference theme is 'Community, ...

Dangerous Correlations: Aid’s Impact on NGOs’ Performance and Ability to Mobilize Members in Pakistan

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Masooda Banoa, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Accepted 22 November 2007. Available online 2 July 2008. Summary Based on a country-wide survey of 40 civil society organizations in Pakistan, this paper demonstrates that the policy of channeling development aid through NGOs in the South in the name of generating social capital and ...

Symposium: “Getting to Results: Evaluation Capacity Building and Development”

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

International Development Evaluation Association Date: March 17-20, 2009 Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa) CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS. Submission Deadline: January 12, 2009 Please note that scholarships for individuals from developing or transition countries are available. Introduction: The Board of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) is pleased to announce its next Global Assembly on March 18-20, ...

International Course on ‘Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation. Managing and Learning for Impact”

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Date: 02-20  March 2009, Venue: Wageningen, The Netherlands This course is organised by Wageningen International, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre. The course focuses on how to design and institutionalise participatory planning and M&E systems in projects, programmes and organisations for continuous learning and enhanced performance. Particular attention is ...

TrainEval – Training for Evaluation in Development, 3rd course in March-July 2009

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Date: 10th March, 2008 Venue: Brussels, Belgium TrainEval is an advanced training programme for evaluation in development, which has been further adapted to the specific requirements of the European development cooperation and the EC evaluation approach. It has successfully been implemented for the first time since February 2008. The programme has been developed ...

Clear Horizon: Training events in Melbourne

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Date: March 2009 Venue: Melbourne, Australia People People-Centred Program Logic 16-Mar-2009 Program logic models such as the logical framework do not ... Meaningful Monitoring 18-Mar-2009 In order to make your monitoring meaningful... Most Significant Change (MSC) Technique 19-Mar-2009 MSC is a powerful tool for monitoring .....

PERSPECTIVES ON IMPACT EVALUATION: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

An International Conference in Africa for policy-makers, program managers, evaluators, sponsors and other stakeholders in evaluation and development Date: Sunday 29 March – Thursday 2 April 2009 Venue: Semiramis InterContinental Hotel, Cairo, Egypt OUR INVITATION How do we know when ‘development' is truly successful? What can evaluations tell us about which policies, programs and ...