Category: Conferences

American Evaluation Association (AEA) Annual Conference

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!

Pan African Monitoring and Evaluation Conference

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.
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Outcomes monitoring and IT: Finding the best solution

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.
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EASY-ECO Budapest Conference 2009: Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development (16-18 October 2009)

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.
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Results of the CONFERENCE ON IMPACT EVALUATION HELD IN CAIRO 29 MARCH – 2 APRIL

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

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

Valuing impact: Building an Association of Nonprofit Analysts

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

2009 Measuring Effectiveness conference – Melbourne

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.

Symposium: “Getting to Results: Evaluation Capacity Building and Development”

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””

INVITATION: Building the Evidence to Reduce Poverty – launch of the public consultation on DFID’s new Evaluation Policy

Date: Tuesday 9th December, 2.30pm
Venue: Department for International Development, Room 3W11, 1 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HE

Chair: Sue Owen, Director General of Corporate Performance, DFID. With presentations from David Peretz, Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact; Nick York, Head of Evaluation Department, DFID

RSVP Kirsty Burns, Evaluation Department, Venue: kirsty-burns@dfid.gov.uk, 01355 84 3602, by Friday 5th December 2008

Background notes

Development is about achieving results that make a difference for the poor in their daily lives.
Evaluation is a key instrument both to inform decision makers and to hold DFID to account for its choices and actions.

The Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact (IACDI) was established in December 2007, with members selected for their international development and evaluation expertise. Its formation was an important step forward towards strengthening evaluation for DFID. It demonstrated that the UK Government is committed to independent, open, and transparent scrutiny of its development assistance.

The new policy comes at the end of the first year of IACDI’s oversight of DFID’s evaluation work.
It is vital that we also draw on the views of our delivery partners across the world, and this is why the draft policy, along with a proposed list of topics to focus evaluation on over the next three years, is being put out for public consultation.

This event marks the launch of the external consultation process, which will be open for 12 weeks. DFID will launch its final policy in March.

You and your organisation are invited to take part in the consultation process, beginning with this event. There you will have an opportunity to put questions to David Peretz, the Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact, as well as Sue Owen, DFID’s Director General for Corporate Performance and Nick York, DFID’s Head of Evaluation.

Please let us know promptly if you plan to attend or if a colleague will attend in your place. Names need to be provided to DFID security staff to ensure admission.

Further details will then be sent to those joining the event closer to the time.

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