Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS
A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development programmes with social development objectives. Managed by Rick Davies, since 1997
Date: March 2009
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
| People People-Centred Program Logic 16-Mar-2009 Program logic models such as the logical framework do not … |
| Meaningful Monitoring 18-Mar-2009 In order to make your monitoring meaningful… |
| Most Significant Change (MSC) Technique 19-Mar-2009 MSC is a powerful tool for monitoring ….. |
Date: February 2009
Venue: Melbourne, Australia, and Jogjakarta, Indonesia
| Program Logic for NRM 17-Feb-2009 Program logic is now widely promoted within the NRM sector… |
| Participatory Performance Story Reporting 19-Feb-2009 The Participatory Performance Story Reporting (PPSR) technique is … |
| Evaluation Summit Workshop Technique 20-Feb-2009 The second day of Participatory Performance Story Reporting |
| Most Significant Change Training in Indonesia 23-Feb-2009 MSC is a powerful tool for monitoring… |
Date: 12th October 2009
Venue: Brighton, UK.
12th Working with Logframes short course in Brighton, UK, IMA International
Date: 28th September 2009
Venue: Brighton, UK
28th Results-based M&E Systems for Organisations short course in Brighton, UK, IMA International
28th Monitoring and Evaluation in Development short course in Brighton, UK, IMA International
Date: 15th June
Venue: Capetown, South Africa
15th Planning Development Projects short course in Cape Town, South Africa, IMA International
22nd Monitoring and Evaluation in Development short course in Cape Town, South Africa, IMA International
Date: 15th May
Venue: Bangkok, Thailand
11th Planning Development Projects short course in Bangkok, Thailand, IMA International
18th Monitoring and Evaluation in Development short course in Bangkok, Thailand, IMA International
Date: 15th April
Venue: Brighton, UK
15th Working with Logframes short course in Brighton, UK, IMA International
20th Monitoring and Evaluation in Development short course in Brighton, UK, IMA International
20th Results-based M&E Systems for Organisations short course in Brighton, UK, IMA International
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.
Date: 13th to 17th April, 2009
Venue: Lund, Sweden
The next training opportunity within the EASY-ECO series of conferences and training courses will be held from 13th to 17th April, 2009, in Lund, Sweden. The training will focus on the areas of evaluation of energy and sustainable consumption policies and programmes. The training will consist of an e-learning phase (mid-December 2008 to March 2009), and the 5-day on-site case training.
EASY-ECO Trainings explore key elements in sustainability evaluation such as roles of evaluation in the policy cycle, aproaches to evaluation, stages of evaluation, methods and techniques to conduct evaluation, and evaluation markets. After attending one of the trainings, participants will be able to conduct actual evaluation projects as full-fledged members of an evaluation team. In addition, the trainees will be embedded in a thematic network of leading scientists and practitioners. Continue reading “EASY-ECO Saarland Training on Evaluation of Sustainability”
An International Conference in Africa for policy-makers, program managers, evaluators, sponsors and other stakeholders in evaluation and development
Date: Sunday 29 March – Thursday 2 April 2009
Venue: Semiramis InterContinental Hotel, Cairo, Egypt
OUR INVITATION
How do we know when ‘development’ is truly successful? What can evaluations tell us about which policies, programs and projects work, why, for whom and under what conditions? How can such evaluations best be conducted to help to bring new hope and opportunities to many millions in Africa and beyond?
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to participate in one of the most exciting evaluation events ever held in Africa. The African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), the Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation (NONIE) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) have joined forces to bring to Africa some of the best expertise from all continents on one of the most discussed topics among evaluation and development communities worldwide.
For the conference we define impact evaluations as those studies which concern themselves with determining and understanding the short, medium and long term outcomes or impacts of projects, programs and policies. We do not limit the term to any specific methodology in any particular discipline.
Continue reading “PERSPECTIVES ON IMPACT EVALUATION: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness”