Archive for November, 2009

“Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation with Special Application to Population and Health”

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Date: May 2 – July 22, 2010 Venue: Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo. The Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo is pleased to announce the 9th round of the training course “Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation with Special Application to Population and Health”. ...

Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Being a keen advocate of greater transparency by aid agencies and programmes this article interested me. See it on the New Replublic website, published on October 9, 2009 The author, Lawrence Lessig, "is professor of law and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School, and ...

Training: MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TECHNIQUE (Indonesia)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Date: 25-26th November 2009 Venue: Bogor, Indonesia The Most Significant Change technique is a dynamic qualitative and participatory monitoring and evaluation method.  Through collecting stories of the impact of our program with the program stakeholders we analyse our work.  Through this process of selecting the stories, change management and organizational learning is ...

Most Significant Change Training in Melbourne 1-2 December

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Date: 1-2 December Venue: Melbourne 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. Each story represents the storyteller’s interpretation of impact, which is then reviewed and discussed. The process ...

The UK Evaluation Society Conference 2009

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Date: 24-25 November 2009 Venue: The Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury Evaluating Impact in the Current Crisis The theme of this year’s annual conference takes us back to basics and relates to the perpetual issue taxing all evaluators: how to evaluate impact. The current financial crisis brings this into even sharper focus with many ...

Training: Evaluation of Humanitarian Action

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Date: 9-13 November 2009 Venue: Belgium Channel Research wish to draw your attention to two forthcoming coming courses in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action, using materials developed in collaboration with ALNAP. These courses will take place in Belgium on the following dates: 9-11 November 2009 (introductory- to intermediate level) 12-13 November 2009 (advanced level) Full details ...

American Evaluation Association (AEA) Annual Conference

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Date: November 11 - 14, 2009 Venue: Orlando, Florida The American Evaluation Association (AEA) invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 11, through Saturday, November 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. We are fortunate to be at the world-class Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, providing ...

IMA International training events: Bangkok, Thailand

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Date: 9th November 2009 Venue: Bangkok, Thailand 9th Planning Development Projects short course, in Bangkok, Thailand, IMA International 16th Monitoring and Evaluation in Development short course, in Bangkok, Thailand, IMA International 23rd Working with Logframes short course in Bangkok, Thailand, IMA International