Upcoming Events

Third webinar in the
SERIES OF LIVE WEBINARS on “Developing capacities for country M&E systems”

UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo, in partnership with UNDP, UNIFEM and WFP, are pleased to announce the webinar with Caroline Heider, Director, Office of Evaluation, World Food Programme, and Vice-Chair, UN Evaluation Group and Craig Russon, Senior Evaluation Officer, ILO on "Evaluating policies and their results" to be held in September 2010.

Additional information on how to participate and the agenda are available at www.mymande.org.

SERIES OF LIVE WEBINARS

UNICEF, IOCE and DevInfo, in partnership with UNDP, WFP and UNIFEM, are pleased to announce a series of live webinars on “Developing capacities for country M&E systems”.
June 2010 – September 2011

Authors of the newly published book "From policies to results. Developing national capacities for country M&E systems" will present their contributions and will be available to respond to your questions. Webinars will include senior evaluators from UN agencies, the World Bank, Universities and other major institutions, including Saraswathi Menon, Caroline Heider, Finbar O’Brien, Belen Sanz, Michael Quinn Patton, Craig Russon, Oscar A. Garcia, Michael Bamberger, Linda G. Morra, Jean Quesnel, David Fetterman, Hallie Preskill, Angela Bester, Alexey Kuzmin and Manuel Fernando Castro, as well as senior Government representatives responsible for the national monitoring and evaluation systems in countries in Asia and Africa, including Indran Naidoo and Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy.

Webinars are free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments.

Download the Webinar Schedule.

For additional information, please visit MyM&E.

International Program for Development Evaluation Training: Building Skills to Evaluate Development Interventions
June 7 – July 2, 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Information on the 2010 International Program for Development Evaluation Training is now available at www.ipdet.org and on-line registration is open.

This year marks IPDET’s tenth-year anniversary.

Visit the website for more information about the program and our outstanding group of world-class instructors drawn from four different continents.

Deadlines:
For scholarships: March 19, 2010
All applications: May 10, 2010

Applicants: Note that you must register on the IPDET website www.ipdet.org before you can log in and access the on-line application form. If you experience difficulties with the application process, contact Mary Dixon, the IPDET Registrar, at mary_dixon@carleton.ca.

IPDET is a collaboration of the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank and Carleton University. A limited number of scholarships is available, thanks to the generous support of several donor organizations.

Announcement

ReLAC is hosting its third Conference,
July 26 - 30, 2010, in San José (Costa Rica).

Workshops: July 26 - 27, 2010
Conference: July 28 - 30, 2010

More information is available at www.relacweb.com/conferencia.

The Association for the Promotion of Evaluation in Mali (APEM) is organizing the Sixth Mali Symposium on Applied Sciences (MSAS), to be held at the University of Bamako on August 1-7, 2010 on the theme of “Evaluating Development Policies: How do we it?”

For more information see www.msas.maliwatch.org/.

L’Association pour la Promotion de l’Evaluation au Mali (APEM) sera l’ Organisateur du Sixième Symposium Malien sur les Sciences Appliquées qui se tiendra à l'Université de Bamako du 1 au 7 août 2010 sur le thème « Evaluation des Politiques de Développement : Comment S’y Prendre ? ».

Pour plus d’information, visitez notre site web: www.msas.maliwatch.org/.

SAMEA (South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association) is hosting an exciting event around Professionalising Evaluation/Evaluator Competencies
August 23 - 24, 2010 in Cape Town

Visit http://www.samea.org.za/ for more information.

– IMPORTANT UPDATE –
International Program Evaluation Network (IPEN) 10th annual conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – September 24-25, 2010.
Pre-conference workshops – September 23rd. The conference theme this year is "Design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems."

IPEN Board and Organizing Committee inform that the 10th International Conference "Development and Implementation of M&E Systems" on September 23-25, 2010 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan is cancelled.

This cancellation is due to difficult political situation in Kyrgyzstan. Street riots in April 2010 led to the fall President and dissolution of Parliament. There are pending constitution referendum and presidential and parliamentary elections. It is expected that political tensions will again peak in the end of summer and in fall of this year. Organizers of the conference believe that political confrontation will remain legal and peaceful. However organizers feel that they won't be able to ensure safety of the conference participants if political confrontation escalates in September and thus they have decided to cancel the conference .

Organizing Committee and IPEN Board express gratitude to all organizations and individual evaluation specialists who have contributed to organization of the conference .

Organizing Committee and IPEN Board have made a decision to conduct separate local events on the topic of the conference on September 23-25, 2010. The exact dates and locations of these events will be announced
ASAP.

The 9th European Evaluation Society International Conference
"Evaluation in Public Interest – Participation, Politics and Policy"
October 6 - 8, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

Pre-conference Training & Professional Developement Sessions – October 4-5, 2010
Biennial Conference – October 6-8, 2010

For more information: www.ees2010prague.org/

The South Asian Community of Evaluators (CoE) “Global Evaluation Conclave”
October 25 - 28, 2010
The Lalit Hote, New Delhi, India.

“Making Evaluation Matter” is the theme of the conclave. The theme embodies an idea of evaluation that starts with relevance and context, with a strong understanding of who evaluation should serve.

The event will attract global thinkers engaged in cutting edge evaluation research, theorizing, or practice who seek opportunities to push their thinking in new directions and are interested in applying ideas in a South Asian context. It will include leading development theorists, activists and policy makers from South Asia to embed discussions in current development issues and contexts that evaluation must respond to.

The event will be a space to engage with, and test knowledge. The conclave will include around 200 leaders from the global development and evaluation community.

www.evaluationconclave.org

Call for Proposals:
American Evaluation Association
2010 Conference
November 10-14, 2010
San Antonio, Texas

The American Evaluation Association invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 10, through Saturday, November 13, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. We'll be convening at the lovely Grand Hyatt San Antonio, right in the heart of the vibrant city and adjacent to the Riverwalk's nightlife, restaurants, and strolling grounds. Discounted hotel reservations will be available in March.

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 collaborative, thought-provoking, and fun atmosphere.
The conference is broken down into 44 Topical Strands that 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 Evaluation Quality. Presentations may explore the conference theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory and practice.

Proposals are due by midnight in the Eastern time zone, on Friday, March 19, 2010.

Visit the AEA 2010 Conference website
for more information:
http://www.eval.org/eval2010/default.asp