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Date: Monday, 12 October, 2:30pm – Wednesday, 14 October, 2:30pm
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Deadline for registration is August 15, 2009
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Date: November 11 – 14, 2009
Venue: Orlando, Florida
The American Evaluation Association (AEA) invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 11, through Saturday, November 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. We are fortunate to be at the world-class Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, providing us with a beautiful venue and context for learning from one another as well as building in some time for relaxation and fun.
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 supportive, invigorating, atmosphere.
The conference is broken down into 41 Topical Strands, which includes 655 sessions over the course of 3.5 days. These sessions 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 Context and Evaluation. Presentations may explore the conference theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory and practice.
To register for the Evaluation 2009 Conference, please visit our Eval 2009 page (eval.org/eval2009/). However, for additional information about the Conference or AEA in general, please contact Membership Director Heidi Nye via email at info@eval.org or telephone at (888) 232.2275 or (508) 748.3326. Act quickly, as the discounted early registration rates expire September 26!
Date: 27 – 31 July 2009
Venue: Premier Hotel, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
The leaders of Africa continue to grapple with service delivery and are looking for ways to improve their capabilities and help them to achieve tangible and sustainable results.
“Now, more than ever, governments are being held accountable to their constituents for their expenditure,” explains Hennie Oosthuizen, CEO of the African Information Institute. “It is prudent for Africa’s leaders to embrace monitoring and evaluation in order for them to accurately assess the quality and impact of their work against their strategic plan.”
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is a public management tool used to improve the way that government and other organizations achieve results. South African President, Jacob Zuma, has prioritised M&E through the establishment of an evaluation, monitoring and planning commission within the presidency, as well as in all government departments from national down to local level.
Continue reading “Pan African Monitoring and Evaluation Conference”
Date: 21 May 2009
Venue: London
This exciting new conference is the first time charities will have the chance to meet a range of system providers offering resources that help with outcomes monitoring.
The conference will help you:
· learn how IT can help you track the difference you make, save time and cut costs
· understand more about the processes involved in implementing an outcomes-based IT system
· gain an overview of the range of solutions available
· identify specific IT systems that will help you measure the outcomes of your work.
Continue reading “Outcomes monitoring and IT: Finding the best solution”
Date: 16th October, 2009
Venue: Budapest, Hungary
The next event in the EASY-ECO series of trainings and conferences, the EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009 “Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development”, will be held 16-18 October 2009 in Budapest, Hungary. While the previous EASY-ECO conferences have dealt with the strategic and project level of SD evaluation and policy learning processes, the EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009 focuses on the participatory dimensions of evaluation, in particular by considering key developments in linking Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and stakeholder management to sustainability evaluation in the corporate domain in Europe. With the current Call for Papers, we encourage researchers from all disciplines (including young researchers), professionals from related fields of work, commissioning agents, and evaluation users and other stakeholders to submit abstracts for presentations at the EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009 until 15 May 2009.
Continue reading “EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009: Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development (16-18 October 2009)”
Further contributions to this list are welcome (linked documents, or the documents themselves). Please use the Comment facility below, or email rick at mande.co.uk
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
Date: Tuesday 19 May, 2009
Venue: The King’s Fund, London
The is the first ever international gathering of its kind, and a groundbreaking event for anyone who is passionate about the performance of nonprofit organisations. Join us if you’d like to make contacts and see how we can work together more to share best practice, promote impact measurement, and take the first steps towards creating an Association of Nonprofit Analysts.
Click here to find out more and to secure your place.
Esther Paterson
Conference Organiser
epaterson@philanthropycapital.org
New Philanthropy Capital
3 Downstream, 1 London Bridge, London, SE1 9BG
t: +44 (0) 20 7785 6300 f: +44 (0) 20 7785 6301
www.philanthropycapital.org
Date: 17th – 18 September 2009
Venue: Anglis Conference centre, Melbourne
Preparations for the fourth annual Measuring Effectiveness conference are currently underway. The conference will again be held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Angliss Conference Centre, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September, 2009. This year the conference theme is ‘Community, Poverty and Business’. The conference will explore ways in which business principles and wealth creation have come together successfully with community development.
Our reason for writing to you is a dual one; we wish to invite you personally to consider attending the conference and consider submitting a presentation, poster, etc.
In addition we would ask you to disseminate this information amongst your networks, colleagues and fellow students. Submission deadline is Friday 29th May, 2008.
In the next few weeks conference information will appear on the World Vision website, and regular updates will also be posted there. The conference brochure will be available online in late June. The full conference program, with details on the speakers, presenters and sessions, will be available in late August. Online registrations will open in mid July.
For further information, refer to the website http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/conferences/me/index.asp or contact us at measuringeffectiveness@worldvision.com.au
Regards,
Program Effectiveness | World Vision Australia
Email : measuringeffectiveness@worlddvision.com.au
Website : http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/conferences/index.asp
Please distribute this information amongst your networks.
International Development Evaluation Association
Date: March 17-20, 2009
Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa)
CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS.
Submission Deadline: January 12, 2009
Please note that scholarships for individuals from developing or transition countries are available.
Introduction:
The Board of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) is pleased to announce its next Global Assembly on March 18-20, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa preceded by professional development training sessions on March 17. The theme of the assembly will be on evaluation capacity building and its role in development.
The Assembly will focus on the issues involved in evaluation capacity building, how such efforts can strengthen the evidence available to organizations and countries to inform their own development, and what we know of good practices in this area. Capacity building has been recognized now for a decade or more as crucial to development. The measurement (and management) issues embedded in generating and disseminating evaluative information are now understood to be critical to informing decision making. This conference will explore these topics with the intent to clarify present knowledge on evaluation capacity building, learn of what is working well (or not), and what are the challenges in taking these promising efforts forward. The intention is to inform the results agenda within the development context.
The theme of this coming global assembly underscores the role that evaluative knowledge can play in development in general, and more particularly, how to build and sustain the capacity to bring evaluative knowledge into the decision making process so as to enhance the achievement of results. Thus, the theme of evaluation capacity building encompasses issues of knowledge creation, knowledge transmission, knowledge synthesis, and sustainability. Continue reading “Symposium: “Getting to Results: Evaluation Capacity Building and Development””