Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

INTRAC, PSO & PRIA Monitoring and Evaluation Conference

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Monitoring and evaluation: new developments and challenges Date: 14-16 June 2011 Venue: The Netherlands This international conference will examine key elements and challenges confronting the evaluation of international development, including its funding, practice and future. The main themes of the conference will include: governance and accountability; impact; M&E in complex contexts of social change; ...

Call for Abstracts – Forthcoming Sri Lankan Evaluation Association Conference June 6 -10, 2011

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Date: June 6 -10, 2011 Venue: Colombo, Sri Lanka Dear colleagues The Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA) will convene its fourth Evaluation conference in Colombo this coming June. The conference will start with two days of professional development workshops and will provide an opportunity for sharing knowledge and ideas ...

Impact Evaluation Conference: “Mind the Gap”: From Evidence to Impact

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Date: June 15-17 2011 Venue: Cuernavaca, Mexico Each year billions of dollars are spent on tackling global poverty. Development programs and policies are designed to build sustainable livelihoods and improve lives. But is there real evidence to show which programs work and why? Are government and donor policies ...

Results, risk assessment and management in development cooperation – Towards a Common Approach

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Date: 25 - 26 November 2010 Venue: Nordatlantens Brygge, Strandgade 91, Copenhagen (From ODI website) "The conference is organised by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and co-hosted by The Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute and the OECD/DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF). Development cooperation is ...

Seminar: Complexity-oriented Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): from alternative to mainstream?

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Date: Wednesday 10 November 2010, 13.30-17.00 pm, Venue: Theatre Concordia, Hoge Zand 42, The Hague, The Netherlands The HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, PSO Capacity Building in Developing Countries, the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB), and Vredeseilanden/VECO ...

Conference: Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Date: December 16-18, 2010 Venue: University of Brighton, UK The University of Brighton will be hosting a groundbreaking, EU funded, international conference on the theme of Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values, bringing together the leading thinkers, practitioners and organizations in these fields.  The ...

Conference: Systemic Approaches in Evaluation

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Date: January 25th/ 26th 2011 Venue: Eschborn, Germany Call for Papers & Save the Date Development programs promote complex reforms and change processes. Today, such processes are characterized more than ever by insecurity and unpredictability, posing a big challenge to the evaluation of development projects. In order to understand ...

Measuring Results for Dutch Development Aid, Approaches and Future Directions

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 ...

UK Evaluation Society 2010 Annual Evaluation Conference

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 ...

The American Evaluation Association annual conference: Evaluation Quality

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 ...