Archive for April, 2010

Using impact evaluation to improve development

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Date: 04 May 2010 17:30-19:00 GMT+1 (BST) Venue: Overseas Development Institute, London (directions) Speakers: Ariel Fiszbein - Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank Professor Costas Meghir - Co-Director, ESRC Research Centre, Institute of Fiscal Studies Chair: Alison Evans - Director, ODI How do you improve development effectiveness through the better use ...

NZAID 2008 Evaluations and Reviews: Annual Report on Quality, 2009

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Prepared by Miranda Cahn, Evaluation Advisor, Strategy, Advisory and Evaluation Group, NZAID, Wellington, August 2009. Available online Executive Summary Introduction The New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) is committed to improving evaluative activity1, including evaluations and reviews. Since 2005 NZAID has undertaken annual desk studies of the evaluations and reviews completed by ...

International Summer School on Evaluation Research

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Date: 30 August to 3 September 2010 Venue: Lille, France Call for papers – Deadline: 7 May 2010 The Network of Researchers on Evaluation of the French Evaluation Society (Société Française de l'Evaluation) has the pleasure of: informing you that it is organising the International Summer School on Evaluation Research ...

trainings in Evaluation of Humanitarian Action

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Date: 14-16 June, 2010 and 17-18 June, 2010 Venue: near Brussels Evaluation of Humanitarian Action with ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action) 14-16 June, 2010 This course is an introductory-to- intermediate level course and has the overall aim of ...

The Implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Where do We Stand and How to Move Forward?

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Date: 15th -16th April 2010 Venue: Martin's Central Park Hotel, Boulevard Charlemagne 80, Brussels: The Paris Declaration (PD), adopted in 2005, lays down principles and procedures for enhancing the effectiveness of aid and specifies them in twelve targets supplied with monitorable indicators and to be achieved by 2010. ...

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON METHODOLOGY IN PROGRAMME EVALUATION

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

7th to 9th April, 2010Date: Venue: Internet Overall Conference Theme International Trends in Programme Evaluation Methodology. Conference Aims The School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) aims to bring together contributions from programme evaluation theorists and practitioners working in both developed and developing country contexts. The ...

Fit for the Future Conference: Measuring Impact, Communicating Results

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Fit for the Future Conference: Measuring Impact, Communicating Results, Date: 28 April 2010 Venue: London. Find out more and book here: http://www.charitycomms.org.uk/measuring_impact It’s not enough for charity communicators to simply tell the world about the great work their organisation does. Today charities are expected to demonstrate their impact. Knowing how well your charity ...

Workshop: Understanding the effects of development interventions: Theory-based impact evaluation in practice.

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

A three-day workshop jointly organised by Maastricht University and the University of Antwerp. Date: April 28-30, 2010 Venue: Institute of Development Policy and Management, Lange Sint Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium Focus In the past few years development organizations in both North and South have focused on improving ...