The 2024 gLOCAL Evaluation Week under the theme “Evaluation and Transformational Change: Balancing Ambition and Realism” will be held from 3 to 7 June 2024 (find all information here and general information about gLOCAL here). EVALSDGs will contribute to the week through different events, please find them below:
Evaluation and Transformational Change: Perspectives from Young and Emerging Evaluators
5 June 2024, 8.00 A.M. EDT / 14:00 P.M. CEST|
On 5 June, the EVALSDGs Guidance Group hosted this event on Young and Emerging Evaluators:
How can evaluation, a profession in the business of assessing and problem solving, inform and support the transformational imperative? In this session, we look at why and how evaluation needs to transform itself if it is to better support the transformational agenda mirrored in the SDGs, and summarize some promising pathways for this transformational journey. More specifically, we will hear the perspectives from and role of Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) in relation to the transformational imperative.
The session will consist of a short introduction to the topic looking at the intersection of evaluation and transformational change, based on the EVALSDGs Insight # 17, followed by a panel discussion with YEEs themselves.
Speakers:
- Scott Chaplowe
- Joy Mukoma
- Tereza Kaplan
- Brittany Dernberger
Moderator: Roxana Gómez-Valle
For registration click here.
From capacity toward strengthening evaluation capabilities: anchoring evaluation into modern public management
6 June 2024, 9.00 A.M. EDT / 15:00 P.M. CEST| What the recording here.
Following the UN General Assembly Resolution on strengthening country-led evaluations, this panel aims to explore the integration of evaluation capabilities within broader public sector reforms as a possible entry point for building a national evaluation system (NES). While much emphasis has been devoted to evaluation capacity (the skills, assets, and institutional arrangements at individual, organizational, and contextual levels), evaluation capabilities (the ability and aptitudes to put these assets in motion) have received little attention.
We will delve into the drivers of the ability of organizations and individuals inside these organizations to put in motion the evaluation activities for a vibrant, integrated national evaluation system of strategic alignment, capacity building, cross-sector collaboration, and other key linkages that strengthen government evaluation capabilities. The panel will provide insights into how these linkages can be effectively implemented in diverse contexts and environments. Key drivers of enhancing government capabilities include, but is not limited to: Political will to learn from experience including failures, seeing that improving development outcomes will lead to electoral benefits; Incentive mechanisms within Ministries and agencies in support of the demand for performance information and supply quality evaluation; Integration for the assessment within the public management process; Strategic alignment and central agency support; Capacity building and training of civil servants; Programme and performance budget structuring; Close linkage with other evidence functions such as research, national data; strategic management government and reporting; Incentive for internal increased demand for evaluation; Guidelines and templates; Use of government wide IT systems; Engagement and transparency with internal, external and citizens engagement; Evaluation, harvesting failures and continuous learning.
Speakers:
- Celeste Ghiano, Professor at Universities of Argentina
- Denis Jobin, Senior Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF and co-chair of EVALSDGs
- Emmanuel Jimenez, Director General, Independent Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank
- Gonzalo Hernández Licona, Director of the Multidimensional Poverty Network (MPPN)
- Ian Goldman, President of the International Evaluation Academy
- Patricia Moreno, Deputy Director of Evaluation, National Planning Department in Colombia
Moderator: Marie-Helene Adrien, Senior Evaluation Specialist and co-chair of EVALSDGs
Support: Thomas Rossmueller, Partnerships and Capacity Development Officer, UNICEF Evaluation Office
