Posted on Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Date: June 7, 2010 to July 2, 2010
Venue: Ottawa, Canada
“Information on the 2010 International Program for Development Evaluation Training is now available at www.ipdet.org and on-line registration is open.
This year marks IPDET’s tenth-year anniversary and we are very excited by the way this year’s program is taking shape. Once again this year, the Core program will offer eighty hours of instruction and learning in the fundamentals of development evaluation. Participants will also have more than 25 workshops to choose from in the two weeks that follow the Core, including several dynamic new workshops that will be of interest to you and your organization: (more…)
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Posted on 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 evaluations of development interventions. As a result, demand for highquality impact evaluation has increased. Impact evaluation refers to the growing field of evaluative practices aimed at assessing the effects of a broad range of policy interventions. As well as enhancing the accountability of public spending in development, it has the potential to be an important learning tool, allowing us to understand what works and why under what conditions. To help impact evaluation to achieve this potential evaluators and policy makers need to open the ‘black box’ of policy interventions. Attention should be paid not only to the changes caused by an intervention but also to understanding how and why these changes have been brought about. In other words interventions should be considered as theories and evaluations are the tools for reconstructing, refining and testing these theories. This is the essence of theory-based evaluation.
The workshop focuses on the concept and application of theory-based impact evaluation in development. It starts with an overview of the key issues in impact evaluation and development effectiveness. Subsequently, the principles of theory-based impact evaluation will be discussed. Particular attention is paid to how a theory of change provides a framework for further inquiry. Starting out from a theory based perspective, different methodological approaches, from review and synthesis of existing evidence to full-scale empirical inquiry, will be presented and illustrated. These methods and modalities can form the basis for an institutional strategy on impact evaluation and learning, which is the subject of the final part of the workshop.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Date: Sunday 23-May-10 09:00 AM till: Thursday 27-May-10 05:00 PM
Venue: Amman, Jordan
Join us in Amman, Jordan for a 5-days training workshop in designing and building a results-based M&E system. The course is organized by the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) and will heavily depend on the material developed in conjunction with International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) and the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank.
Combining both attention to M&E theory and practical applications of the theory, the 40-45 participants completing the course will gain knowledge and experience on how to design a results-based M&E system, understand the M&E tools, techniques, and resources needed for planning, organizing, and/or managing programs and projects. The course provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of M&E methods, as well as ample opportunities for practical application of these methods through case studies, course exercises, and group projects. The discussions will be practical and hands on. Participants will work in teams, discuss problem scenarios, share experiences, and develop M&E tools that they can apply in their own jobs following the course.
FOR MORE DETAILS
Visit http://www.jei.org.jo/#/18
CONTACT DETAILS:
Email: JEI@JEI.ORG.JO
Tel: +962 6 5502360 Fax: +962 6 5502370
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Posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010
Date: 26 March 2010
Venue: Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK.
LFA is the project planning tool used by major international donor organizations such as the World Bank. It allows organizations to define objectives in a simple, rigorous, logical and concise manner. It has the power to communicate complex objectives clearly and understandably on a single sheet of paper, and is a great ‘aid to thinking’ for project planners and stakeholders alike. LFA serves as a powerful tool for identifying: inputs, assumptions for success, and indicators for monitoring progress and evaluating performance. This course will be invaluable for anyone who needs to run, or participate in, any LFA process.The course presenter has extensive experience with LFA: having worked with a number of donor agencies (including Australian Aid, DANCED, the EU, and the World Bank) as well as with a range of NGO’s in a number of countries.
Course fee: £100.
Course registration form available here.
Please note: this course is held in Banbury, Oxfordshire, however we can also run this course at your own venue, on a date to suit – please contact us for details.
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Posted on Friday, January 1st, 2010
Date: June 28 to July 2, 2010
Venue: Switzerland
We from Agridea International are happy to announce another learning event and training on Outcome Mapping in Switzerland. From June 28 until July 2, 2010, we will spend 5 days getting to know the nuts and bolts of planning, monitoring and evaluating with Outcome Mapping.
We will discuss specific issues regarding the facilitation of OM planning events, key challenges and solutions for participative monitoring and sense-making, and we will organise peer-learning sessions for your own cases and realities.
The fusion of other existing approaches, methodologies and guiding principles with Outcome Mapping is another workshop topic.
Do not miss this unique opportunity for learning from the experts – in a practice oriented way.
For further information or registration contact Mr. Carsten Schulz
email: carsten.schulz@agridea.ch
website : www.agridea-international.ch/training
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Posted on Thursday, December 24th, 2009
The presentations from this year’s ME conference in Melbourne are available on the World Vision Australia website:
http://www.worldvision.com.au/Learn/Conferences/MeasuringEffectiveness/2009_Presentations.aspx
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Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2009
Date: 7th – 11th June 2010
Venue: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
As part of its 11th International Summer School, INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) will be running a course on Evaluation in Conflict Prone Settings.
The course covers the basics of conducting evaluations of initiatives in conflict-prone settings. The focus of the course is not limited to peacebuilding initiatives, but applies to the evaluation of the full spectrum of initiatives: development, humanitarian, private sectors, community development, and so on. Similarly, the term “conflict-prone” is broadly defined in the course. It can be applied to community work on interface areas of inner-cities, or it can be applied to more conventional, protracted, militarized conflicts. The course will be facilitated by Dr Kenneth Bush (INCORE) and Colleen Duggan (IDRC).
The 2010 International Summer School will run from 7th-11th June. The Summer School will be based on the historic Magee Campus in the city of Derry/Londonderry, on the shores of Lough Foyle in the north west of Northern Ireland, easily accessible by road, rail and air.
Previous participants of the INCORE Summer School have included USAID, European Union DG External Relations, UK Department for International Development, World Food Programme, UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and others. The INCORE Summer School is recognised by UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) Programme of Correspondence Instruction in Peacekeeping Operations, and may form part of The Certificate-of-Training In Peace Support Operations (COTIPSO) Programme.
Visit www.unitarpoci.org for further details.
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Visit: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/courses/ss/
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: school@incore.ulst.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 28 7137 5500 Fax: +44 (0) 28 7137 5510 INCORE, University of Ulster, Aberfoyle House, Northland Road, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, BT48 7JL
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Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009
Date: 8th to 10th of March, 2010
Venue: Karl Kübel Institute for Development Education – India
Dear Friends,
We would like to inform you about the above mentioned workshop which we offer at the Karl Kübel Institute for Development Education, Coimbatore (www.kkid.org).
Target group:
Participants from organisations dealing with projects and programmes of development cooperation in all fields being responsible or involved in activities of project cycle management. Knowledge of formalized planning procedures like logframe-planning and the use of project cycle management are appreciated.
Objectives:
- Participants have a better understanding of the significance of “impact orientation” in the field of development cooperation and for their concrete project work.
- Participants are in a position to increase the impact of their projects by practicing impact oriented project planning and monitoring.
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Posted on 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”. The three-month training course is directed to Arab nationals and will be held during May 2 – July 22, 2010 at the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo.
The training course aims to acquaint participants with principles of research methods and its application in the field of population and health.
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Posted on 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 facilitated. MSC has a particular ability to capture impact in complex cross cultural social change contexts.
With the shift in monitoring and evaluation to a mixed methods approach MSC is a method that fills the gap in data collection. MSC gathers rich qualitative data that captures intangible impact and unexpected outcomes of the program.
This two day training presents MSC through practical examples and exercises. The training is designed for active learning.
At the end of the training the participants will:
• Understand how MSC works
• Understand how MSC fits into a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework,
• Know the best situation to use MSC and when not to use MSC
• Understand how MSC facilitates development of stakeholder relationships and organizational learning & development
• Have learnt through practical exercises, skills to undertake MSC (story collection, story selection & feedback)
• Know the specific adaptation of MSC for an Indonesian context
• Have designed an MSC system for your program.
Who Should Attend These Trainings?
Organisations, teams and individuals seeking to:
• Develop a program’s direction or clarify a shared vision
• Try something new in an organisational learning context
• Capture intangible and unexpected outcomes
Download flyers in English and Indonesian Details of the trainers, the location, the costs and contact names and email addresses are all in the flyer
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Posted on 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 offers an opportunity for a diverse range of stakeholders to enter into a dialogue about program intention, impact and ultimately future direction. This two day workshop provides an introduction to MSC which includes designing your own MSC process. Participants will be provided with experiential learning opportunities and examples of real applications of the technique throughout the workshop.
This two day course includes the Evaluation Summit training. Evaluation Summit will take place on the second half of day two.
You can register online here
As well as our regular courses we are also seeking expressions of interest for two brand new courses in management: Management Core Concepts and Change Management Toolkit facilitated by Carolynne Wilson our newly appointed senior consultant!
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Posted on 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 evaluators asking themselves why evaluation does not seem to be answering the key strategic questions facing us today. This environment also brings further uncertainty to evaluators in terms of the complex nature of the economic environment, the stress on evaluation funding and a renewed challenge to demonstrate value for money and the benefits of evaluation.
The conference hopes to look at methods and issues around evaluating impact in key spheres: economic, social, health, cultural and environmental. It will provide evaluators with an opportunity to develop their understanding of methodologies and to air their views and work through issues around the way in which we look at impact.
The conference will address the key issues facing evaluators today and will provide a forum for all evaluators from across government, academia and the voluntary and private sectors. The aim of the conference is the same as that of UKES: to advance and improve the theory and practice of evaluation.
The keynote speakers at the conference are:
- Will Hutton , Executive Vice-Chair, The Work Foundation
- Anna Coote, Head of Public Sector Policy, New Economics Foundation and Health Commissioner, Sustainable Development Commission
- Sandra Nutley, Professor of Public Management, University of Edinburgh
- Howard White, Head of New Impact Evaluation Entity, 3IE
- Beatriz Garcia, Director, Impact 08
- Peter Tyler, Professor of Land Economy, Cambridge University
Conference website
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Posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Date: 6-8th October 2010 (Pre-Conference training 4-5th)
Venue: Prague
“Evaluation in the public interest: participation, politics and policy”
The 2010 EES conference in the beautiful city of Prague is an invitation to evaluators and stakeholders to consider how evaluation addresses core values of human rights and citizen participation, addressing issues in such a way that the public can benefit from its work. It is a delicate balance to achieve this while contributing useful knowledge to public policy and its
implementation.
In a world of widening socio-economic inequalities in which individuals and cultures are increasingly confronted by financial, social, environmental and spiritual upheavals, does evaluation have a meaningful role to play as an advocate for the public good? This conference title is designed to stimulate forward and expansive thinking about the way in which evaluation is embedded in democratic process. This perspective places evaluation within the dynamic of policy making, policy interrogation and legitimation where it mediates between policy makers, those in receipt of policies and those on whose behalf our policy makers are expected to work.
How can evaluation inform the public interest and challenge the dynamics of governance and policy implementation, from local through to central and global levels of governments? Evaluators are present in an astonishing array of sectors, policy areas, cross-cutting issues, governments, civil society organisations, research and education institutions, professional milieus and communities
Evaluation encompasses a rich and growing diversity of methodologies, practices, innovations and perspectives. The European mosaic of evaluation reflects well that diversity and vibrancy and the 2010 Conference will provide the setting for exchange, learning and the advancement of
our practice.
As evaluators we have grown accustomed to asking what difference an intervention makes; it is now time to ask what difference evaluation makes.
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Posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009
Date: 20th/21st October 2009
Venue: Amazon Auditorium, World Forum, The Hague
” In the conference to be opened by Bert Koenders, Dutch Development Minister, participants from donor agencies, partner country governments, and CSOs will come together to explore aid transparency within the broader context of ownership, domestic accountability and mutual accountability. Click here for the draft conference programme. Please contact r-greenhill@dfid.gov.uk for information.
Link to IATI website
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Posted on Friday, October 9th, 2009
Date: December 15 – 19, 2009
Venue: Santiago, Chile
The Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) will conduct an executive education course, “Evaluating Social Programs” in Santiago, Chile from December 15 – 19, 2009. This five-day course will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one’s own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies. The program is designed for people from a variety of backgrounds: managers and researchers from international development organizations, foundations, governments and non-governmental organizations from around the world, as well as trained economists looking to retool.For more information, please visit our website.
Please note: The application deadline is November 1, 2009
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