IDEAS Global Assembly

“Evaluating Sustainable Development”

The event is co-hosted by DFID and organized co-jointly with the Fourth International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities.

Why Attend the 2015 Global IDEAS Assembly?

· Are you an evaluation professional with a keen interest in international development?
· Are you an evaluator and you are trying who to expand your international portfolio?
· Are you interested in learning more about international evaluation practices and global perspectives on where the evaluation field is going?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you will greatly benefit from attending the 2015 Global Assembly organized by the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS). The event, held in Thailand at the Millennium Hilton Bangkok from October 28 to October 30, 2015, will be taking place in parallel to the Fourth International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities. During the two days before the conference starts (October 26-27) world-renowned experts will also present workshops aimed to strengthen participants’ technical skills and enlarge their methodological toolset, in view of the new Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and the challenges that come with it.

Conference Highlights
Conference keynote speakers, providing inspiration for both conferences, include:
· Vinod Thomas, Director-General of the Independent Evaluation Group of the Asian Development Bank; and
· Marco Segone, chair of the UN Evaluation Group and Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of UN-Women.

Many other international evaluation professionals will be presenting and chairing panel sessions on a wide variety of subjects, such as South-South Collaboration, Qualification of evaluation professionals and New frontiers for evaluation in a fast changing world.Some of the participants will include:
· Emanuel Jimenez, Executive Director of 3ie;
· Penny Hawkins, Head of Evaluation of DFID and Chair of the DAC Evaluation Network;
· Richard Levin, Chair of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Society

More About the Conference Theme
The theme for the Global Assembly is “Evaluating Sustainable Development”. In response to the need for measuring effectively and attaining the so-called Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) in a timely manner, the event will especially cater to all those evaluation professionals(including policy makers, programmers, politicians)who will be called upon to contribute to such goals in their own day-to-day work. Since it will be essential to integrate environmental concerns and ecosystem services in our thinking to make our societies and economies more sustainable in the future, the Conference will strive to emphasize the balance that evaluators and policy-makers will need to look for across the social, economic and environmental domains. In doing so, presentations held during the Global Assembly will especially focus on such fundamental themes as equity and gender, public service and market-based interventions, democratic governance and accountability.