IOCE Regional Workshop for Russia and the Newly Independent States

July 28 & 29, 2005
Tiblisi, Georgia

For further information and to register, e-mail Nino Saakashviti at nino.adm@horizonti.org

July 28, 2005

* Opening of the Workshop
* Aims and Objectives of the IOCE
* Purpose and Types of Evaluation: The Importance and History of Program Evaluation
* Existing Situations in the Field of Evaluation from the NIS and Georgian Perspective
* Who Conducts Evaluations, Who is Interested in Evaluation and What is the Demand to Date?
* Developing Evaluation Capacity: Information Sharing from Georgia, Caucasus and Other NIS Countries
* Training the Specialists
* Summary of Daily Results

July 29, 2005

* Evaluation Types and Conditions for Their Usage (Ongoing, Mid-term, Real-time, Formative)
a) Preliminary Evaluation
b) Intermediate Evaluation
c) Final Evaluation

* How appropriate are these types of evaluation? In what cases are each of these types used?

* Evaluation Policy
a) Project Evaluation
b) Organizational Evaluation
c) Similarities and Differences Between Them
d) General Principles of Evaluation

* Identifying the Sides Interested in Evaluation: Creation of Evaluation Market in NIS

* Working out the evaluation marketing strategy
a) Donors (customer)
b) Professional Evaluators (executor)
c) Organizations to be Evaluated

* Discussion: Future Perspectives and Priorities of Evaluation Development in NIS: The Role of IOCE

* Summary of the Workshop Results and Closing