European Evaluation Society Conference Helsinki, 1-5 October, 2012 – docs available

New concepts – New challenges – New solutions

Helsinki, 1-5 October, 2012

Abstracts available as a 255 page online book, here  or as a pdf here [its big!]

Plus a list of participants (presenters and others), including their contact details

Follow Tweets about the conference, by the participants, at #eesconf

Australasian Evaluation Society 2011 International Conference: Evaluation and Influence

 

Date: 29 August – 2 September (workshops on 29-30th)
Venue: Hilton, Sydney, NSW, Australia

View the Conference website here

View the detailed outline of the program and please click here to view the detailed Pre Conference Workshop Program. Please note the Conference Program is subject to change.

Read more about the Keynote Speakers, their presentations and Conference main streams and ‘hot topics’.

Evaluation and influence

Evaluation claims to influence public policy, professional practice and the management of organisations. What is the nature and extent of this influence? How can evaluations be made more influential?  And conversely, in a rapidly changing world, what are the main influences on evaluation? To what extent is evaluation responding by taking on new approaches and technologies?

With the focus on influence, the conference builds upon the two previous conferences with their themes of evidence (Canberra 2009) and reflections on evaluation (Wellington 2010).

The conference will focus on three sub-themes:

The influence of evaluation on society

How much and in what ways does evaluation impact upon policy, practice and organisations? Where and in what circumstances does it have the most impact, and why? What are other important sources of influence, and how do they compare with evaluation?

Making an evaluation more influential

How can an evaluation be designed and conducted to increase its use and influence?  What are the most persuasive ways of communicating the results of an evaluation?What role can evaluators play in implementing evaluation results? What are the lessons for evaluation from theories of influence and diffusion?

Influences shaping evaluation

How is evaluation changing in response to emerging social, economic and political issues, to increasing complexity and uncertainty, and to new approaches and technologies? What are the important influences on evaluation, and how are they shaping evaluation?

The conference can explore its theme in streams around fields such as education and research, health, human services, justice, international development, Indigenous peoples, natural resource management and the economy. We also expect a stream on design and methodology.

INTRAC, PSO & PRIA Monitoring and Evaluation Conference

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; the M&E of advocacy; M&E of capacity building; programme evaluation in an era of results-based management; M&E of humanitarian programmes; the design of M&E systems; evaluating networks, including community driven networks; changing theories of change and how this relates to M&E methods and approaches. Overview of conference

Call for M&E Case Studies

Case study abstracts (max. 500 words) are invited that relate to the conference themes above, with an emphasis on what has been done in practice. We will offer a competition for the best three cases and the authors will be invited early to the UK to work on their presentation for a plenary session. We will also identify a range of contributions for publication in Development in Practice.
Download the full case study guidelines, and submit your abstracts via email to Zoe Wilkinson.

Case studies abstracts deadline: 11 March 2011

IPEN Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine

Date: 24-26 September 2009
Venue: Kyiv, Ukraine

Dear Colleagues,

International Program Evaluation Network (IPEN) welcomes
presentation proposals for its conference to be held in Kyiv,
Ukraine on September 24-26, 2009.

Conference theme is “Program Monitoring and Evaluation Methodology”.

Conference working languages are English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Please visit conference website for more information:
http://eval-net.org/view_konf.php?id=2009
Application forms are available on the website.

Regards,
Alexey Kuzmin

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