Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Date: October 4-7, 2010
Venue: Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam,
The International Institute of Social Studies and The Amsterdam Institute for International Development invite applications / submissions for a training and conference event on Measuring Results for Dutch Development Aid, Approaches and Future Directions with financial support from the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department of the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation.
Participation is free of charge, but places are limited.
Deadline for applications: September 10, 2010
Click here to apply
Objectives: Share results from and experiences with impact evaluation in developing countries, and discuss their relevance for Dutch development cooperation.
Target Audiences: Researchers, NGOs, consulting companies and policy makers in the Netherlands conducting or using impact evaluation to study the effectiveness of development assistance.
Confirmed speakers: Dr. Howard White, director of International Initiative for Impact Evaluation(3ie).
Dr. Paul Gertler, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Sulley Gariba, Executive Director, Institute for Policy Alternatives, Ghana.
Prof. Ruerd Ruben, director of the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department of the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation (starting Sept 1).
Submit a paper (optional): Contributed papers are sought in the area of (1) completed impact evaluations, (2) reviews of impact evaluations on a particular sector, (3) position papers on approaches to impact evaluations in relation to decision making.
Selection criteria: Quality of submission and/or professional link with result assessment for development assistance and/or participation in the impact evaluation training.
Maximum number of participants: 100
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Posted on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Evaluation in a turbulent world: Challenges, opportunities and innovation in evaluation practice
Date: 22-23 November 2010
Venue: Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
Abstracts are now invited for this year’s UKES Annual Evaluation Conference. The on-line submission form is available via the conference website
www.profbriefings.co.uk/ukes2010 The closing date for receipt of submissions is 13 August 2010.
With the effects of the financial crisis still being felt, and with a new coalition government in Number 10, many evaluators find themselves operating in a very different policy environment. In particular the rhetoric has changed from tackling the crisis (a central theme of last year’s conference looking at impact) to talk of austerity and cutting back the public sector, a major source of sponsorship for evaluation. While this environment offers tough challenges, it also presents opportunities – in particular in the development and promotion of new evaluation methodologies, relationships and approaches. More than ever there will be a need to assess what is of value, what has quality and in what circumstances evaluation can contribute to informed policy-making and debate. (more…)
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Posted on Friday, August 20th, 2010
Date: November 10-13, 2010
Venue: San Antonio, Texas
The American Evaluation Association invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 10, through Saturday, November 13, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. We’ll be convening at the lovely Grand Hyatt San Antonio, right in the heart of the vibrant city and adjacent to the Riverwalk’s nightlife, restaurants, and strolling grounds. Discounted hotel reservations will be available in March.
AEA’s annual meeting is expected to bring together approximately 2500 evaluation practitioners, academics, and students, and represents a unique opportunity to gather with professional colleagues in a collaborative, thought-provoking, and fun atmosphere.
The conference is broken down into 44 Topical Strands that examine the field from the vantage point of a particular methodology, context, or issue of interest to the field as well as the Presidential Strand highlighting this year’s Presidential Theme of Evaluation Quality. Presentations may explore the conference theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory and practice.
Proposals are due by midnight in the Eastern time zone, on Friday, March 19, 2010.
For more information: http://www.eval.org/eval2010/10cfp.htm
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Posted on Monday, June 14th, 2010
Date: 25-28 October 2010
Venue: The Lalit Hotel , New Delhi, India
“Making Evaluation Matter” is the theme of the conclave. The theme embodies an idea of evaluation that starts with relevance and context, with a strong understanding of who evaluation should serve.
The event will attract global thinkers engaged in cutting edge evaluation research, theorizing, or practice who seek opportunities to push their thinking in new directions and are interested in applying ideas in a South Asian context. It will include leading development theorists, activists and policy makers from South Asia to embed discussions in current development issues and contexts that evaluation must respond to.
The event will be a space to engage with, and test knowledge. The conclave will include around 200 leaders from the global development and evaluation community.
50 + speakers, 24+ hours of knowledge building and networking, 4 power packed days, 1 Great venue, Countless new evaluation opportunities.
Programme schedule | Read workshop description
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Posted on 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 of evidence? Impact evaluation can build the solid evidence base on what works in development and, in turn, improve development policy. Ariel Fiszbein, Chief Economist in the World Bank’s Human Development Network will discuss how the Bank uses impact evaluation to inform policies on health, education and social protection. His presentation will be followed by a comment from Professor Costas Meghir, Co-Director, ESRC Research Centre.
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Posted on Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Due to the popularity of our April advanced course, INTRAC are running an additional course in Oxford in May. (more…)
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Posted on 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:
This Summer School is intended to be an ideal opportunity for those in the scientific community interested in public policy evaluation to compare scientific work on the subject and to discuss the interdisciplinary nature of evaluation research. (more…)
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Posted on 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 making evaluations of humanitarian action more effective in contributing to the improved performance of interventions and to improve the quality of the evaluation process. This 3-day training course is based on an update of the ALNAP training modules. The course will also introduce some new material, specifically:
- on joint evaluations: the rationale, experience and learning to date, interwoven throughout the training programme
- on evaluating policy as well as projects and programmes
- on innovative learning processes as part of the evaluation process.
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Posted on 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. The quantitative assessment by the OECD of the progress towards 2010 reveals considerable delays of donors and partner countries. With the global economic crisis and growing concern about climate change the targets of the PD have become a great challenge.
EADI in cooperation with the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) will hold a 2 days intensive training workshop in Brussels for development professionals and practitioners. This training workshop is part of the EADI Masterclasses. (more…)
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Posted on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Date: 5 – 9 July 2010 (5 full days)
Venue: King’s College London
Course Director: Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor, King’s College London
International development evaluation is increasingly called upon to support evidence based policy making in the management of development programmes. Growing public pressure to secure better results from poverty reduction initiatives have generated a high demand for quality and independent assessments aimed at improved decision making in different countries, contexts and cultures. Consequently, expectations regarding evaluators’ capabilities are rising.
This summer institute course explores core concepts and emerging issues within the rapidly expanding field of development evaluation. It aims at laying solid foundations for the professional growth of development evaluators, managers and commissioners. It addresses:
- The conceptual foundations and basic principles of development evaluation; its purposes, products and uses
- The analytical and policy implications of development trends for evaluation policies, programmes and projects
- The available tool kits of evaluation methods and techniques
- The emerging guidelines and standards for shaping development evaluation policies and practice
- The governance and management arrangements for development evaluation and their implications
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Posted on 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 virtual conference focuses on the following general areas as relevant to the development of common approaches to programme evaluation internationally:
- Theory and paradigms of programme evaluation
- Programme evaluation methodology
- Teaching, training and instruction in programme evaluation
- Applications of programme evaluation theory and models, and the practice of programme evaluation.
Ways of Participation
The conference is a virtual conference, hosted on the internet. It focuses on contributions in electronic format of three kinds:
* Papers on programme evaluation theory and/or methodology. These should be written and presented in such a way as to be useful to others on both conceptual and/or methodological levels.
* Workshop materials in the form of PowerPoint presentations supported by written handouts. These should be written and presented in such a way as to be useful to others who teach programme evaluation, for teaching, training and/or instructional purposes.
* Short case studies of completed evaluations. These should be written and presented in such a way as to be useful to others in documenting applications and the practice of programme evaluation, as applied in specific local, national or international contexts.
To participate in the conference, draft contributions and abstracts relative to these three types of contribution need to be uploaded to the conference website between April 7th and 9th, 2010.
Information on deadlines relative to the timing of different stages in the conference upload and reviewing process is provided below. Additional information, instructions for authors and reviewers, and templates, are provided on the conference website at the following address: http://wpeg.wits.ac.za
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Posted on 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 performs will help it to improve, develop, inspire and influence the right people. Join us at this one day conference to learn about the nuts and bolts of measuring and communicating impact.
On the agenda:
* Practical guides on how to measure impact
* ‘How we did it’ case studies from other charities including The National Trust, RNID, and WRVS
* Advice on bringing results information to life
* Learn how to attach financial value to your impact using SROI
* Hear from City Bridge Trust’s Chief Grants Officer on what results information they look for in grant applications
* NCVO explores how to effectively evaluate campaigns
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Posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010
Environmental Evaluation: Quality in an Era of Results-Based Performance
Date: June 7-8, 2010
Venue: Washington, D.C.
The Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN) will host its 5th annual Forum in Washington DC at The George Washington University on June 7,8 2010. The purpose of the EEN is to advance the field of environmental program and policy evaluation through more systematic and collective learning among evaluators and evaluation users. The 5th annual EEN Forum will bring together evaluators and users of evaluation to explore and articulate the significance of the emerging era of results-based performance on the quality of environmental evaluations.
The Issue:
Growing awareness of the interdependencies of our social, economic, and ecological systems requires more efficient use of scarce resources to evaluate complex problems. In this heightened era of accountability, recipients and funders of environmental programs want evidence of what works, and what does not, and better mechanisms for using real time information for decision-making. How will the era of results-based performance affect the quality of environmental evaluations? What must be done to improve the quality of environmental evaluations to meet the requirements and desire for better and more accessible evidence of program and policy effectiveness? (more…)
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Posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
PS: Videos of the event are now available: video_1.wmv video_2.wmv video_3.wmv . The EvaluationRevisited conference website also has a number of interesting post conference comments by different participants.
Date: 20-21 May 2010
Venue: Netherlands
On May 20-21, 2010, a conference on evaluation for development will be held in The Netherlands: “Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity.”
This conference focuses on how evaluative practice can be improved, given the need to view much of development as a process of social transformation and, therefore, complex. Current evaluation practice has not yet embraced the full implications of assessing ‘the complex’ and existing approaches often fall woefully short. During the conference, participants can explore concrete evaluation practices that reconcile an understanding of complex societal change processes with quality standards, including rigorous, ethical concerns, appropriateness and feasibility. (more…)
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Posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Date: 6-8 October 2010
Venue: Prague, Czech Republic
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the EES Board of Directors we are pleased to announce that the next EES biennial conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic on 6-8 October 2010, preceded by professional development training sessions on October 4-5. We have launched a new website www.ees2010prague.org where you can find all useful information in regards to the conference. The website will be regularly updated, for newest information please visit section Home – News.
Please find attached a Call for abstract brochure with all information regarding the abstract submission and programme strands.
We want to encourage a wide range of contributions to the conference. Therefore we offer different types of presentation formats, which should be indicated while submitting your abstract. All abstracts are welcome and the best ones are likely to be published or otherwise disseminated by EES. But in addition participants can make use of a wide spectrum of possibilities (panels and symposia, round tables, posters, etc). We also invite creative and original vehicles using the performing arts, film, music, etc.
The Conference topic „Evaluation in the Public Interest – Participation, Politics and Policy“ will be discussed in five strands you are welcome to submit the proposals. Submission strands are:
1. Ethics, capabilities and transparency
2. Evaluation and politics
3. Evaluation producers, beneficiaries, users and decision makers
4. Sector policy evaluation
5. Evaluation in developing and transition economies
Please note the overarching theme “methodology, standards, impact and effects”.
As we would like to welcome as many presenters and attendees at this conference as possible, we need your assistance! So kindly pass on this mail to your colleagues and associates and encourage them to arrange for a contributio.
The Conference administration is undertaken by:
CZECH-IN s.r.o.
Professional Event & Congress Organiser
Prague Congress Centre
5. kvetna 65
140 21 Prague 4
Czech Republic
In case of any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at:
Tel: +420 261 174 304
Fax: +420 261 174 307
Email: info@ees2010prague.org, abstracts@ees2010prague.org
Abstract submission is to be open at 18 February 2010
Registration is to be open at 18 February 2010
For more information please visit www.ees2010prague.org
Thank you very much
Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague in October 2010
Conference Secretariat and EES Conference co-chairs Marie Kaufmann & Claudine Voyadzis
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