Archive for July, 2009

Evaluation of Conflict Sensibility, Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Programmes

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Date: 5-8 October 2009 Venue: Belgium This annual course is an intermediate- to advanced level course based on the newest guidelines established by the OECD-DAC. It provides methodologies for carrying out assessments of conflict sensibility, conflict situations and, subsequently, evaluating the performance of peace-building and conflict prevention activities in a ...

Utilization-focused evaluation for agricultural innovation

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton and Douglas Horton ILAC Brief No 22 Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) is based on the principle that an evaluation should be judged by its utility. So no matter how technically sound and methodologically elegant, an evaluation is not truly a good evaluation unless the findings are used. UFE is a ...

ALNAP 8th Review of Humanitarian Action

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action series aims to advance analysis and understanding of key trends and issues relating to humanitarian learning and accountability as a means of supporting improvement in sector-wide performance. The 8th Review contains three in-depth studies: Chapter 1: Counting what counts: ...

Pan African Monitoring and Evaluation Conference

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Date: 27 – 31 July 2009 Venue: Premier Hotel, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa The leaders of Africa continue to grapple with service delivery and are looking for ways to improve their capabilities and help them to achieve tangible and sustainable results. “Now, more than ever, governments are being held accountable to their ...

a one day event designed to explore impact assessment …

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Date: Thursday 2nd July 2009 Venue: London EGO – Empowering Grassroots Organisations would like to invite you to...a one day event designed to explore impact assessment with leading speakers from the Third Sector On Thursday 2nd July 2009 in London, empACT will take on three key areas; we will: · explore the outcomes ...

Training in Most Significant Change Technique (MSC) in Oxford, UK

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Date: 28-29th July 2009 Venue: Oxford, UK MSC is a powerful tool for monitoring, evaluation and organisational learning. MSC goes beyond merely capturing and documenting participants’ stories of impact, to offering a means of engaging in effective dialogue about what you are achieving. Each story represents the storyteller’s interpretation of impact, which ...

International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Date: June 8 – July 3 Venue: Carleton University in Ottawa Canada On-line applications are now being accepted for IPDET 2009 (June 8 – July 3) at www.ipdet.org. It is time to apply for one to four weeks at the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET). Now entering its 9th year, the ...

PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION WORKSHOP

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Date: July 27-August 1, 2009 Venue: Held at the University of  Ottawa, Canada This Six-Day PM&E Workshop will show you how to: *Rethink your own monitoring & evaluation strategies and approaches; *Master and learn new innovative participatory PM & E tools for the workplace; *Facilitate PM & E processes for your project, programme or organization; *Develop ...

Results-based Management, Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology Workshop

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Dear Rick Mosaic.net International will be organizing two workshops on the theme of results-based management and participatory monitoring and evaluation. Results-based Management, Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology Workshop Venue: Held at the University of Ottawa, Canada Date: July 20-24, 2009Venue: The five day workshop grounds you on three topic areas: results-based management, ...

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 ...