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EvalPartners International Forum on Civil Society’s Evaluation Capacities

Report on the Forum on Civil Society’s Evaluation Capacities which took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 3 to 6 December 2012. EP_Forum_Report_Final.pdf The Forum brought together 80+ representatives of global, regional and national Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) from all over the world, as well as representatives from the academia and international organizations.

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Proceedings from the 2nd Int’l Conference on National Evaluation Capacities

  NEC-2011Proceedings Theme: use of evaluation in decision making for public policies and programme Co-hosted by the Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Public Service Commission of South Africa. 12–14 September 2011 Johannesburg, South Africa. Objectives of the conference The broader purpose of the conference was to provide a forum

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Evaluation Capacity in the UN System

This publication provides a brief overview of the evaluation units of 43 United Nations (UN) entities that are current members or observers of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG). The 43 snapshot “cards” present the institutional set-up of each UN evaluation unit represented in UNEG and highlight the diverse human and financial resources, and work

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National Evaluation Capacity Development: Practical tips on how to strengthen National Evaluation Systems

This is a report for the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Task Force on National Evaluation Capacity Development. The purpose of the report is to provide both technical and non-technical staff in the United Nations (UN) system with practical tips on how to strengthen national evaluation capacity systems. It is not meant to be prescriptive

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Regional Thematic Study of National M&E Systems in Asia and the Pacific

The United Nations Evaluation Development Group for Asia and the Pacific (UNEDAP), a network of UN agencies established with the aim of promoting an evaluation culture in the Asia and Pacific region and to strengthen the region’s evaluation capacities, proposed to undertake a Regional Thematic Study aimed at identifying strategic issues and options for its

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Influencing change : building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance

Differences and divergences were apparent in the spring of 2009, when the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) held its biannual global assembly in Johannesburg, South Africa, around the theme of ‘getting to results: evaluation capacity building and development.’ What became apparent was that a number of challenges had already been identified, but that trying to

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International Workshop Agreement on Evaluation Capacity Development

IWA on ECD

Capacity Development in Planning, Monitoring, & Evaluation: Results of an Evaluation

Capacity Development in Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation: Results of an Evaluation This paper describes the evaluation of a regional, multiple-site capacity-development project, undertaken to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation in the field of agricultural research. It briefly discusses some of the challenges facing capacity development and its evaluation, the conceptual frameworks and methods adopted, and

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Framework for Developing an Effective M&E System

Framework for developing an effective ME system in the public sector The author presents a framework that identifies four broad building blocks needed for an effective M&E system: (i) vision; (ii) an enabling environment; (iii) the infrastructure to supply M&E information; and, (iv) the infrastructure to demand and use M&E information. A set of twelve

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Donor Support for ECD: From the Perspective of Recipient Country

Donor Support of ECD Report for DAC/WP-EV Workshop “Development partners in evaluation learning and accountability”, Paris, 25-26 March, 2003 In recent years, the issues on donor support for ECD in recipient-countries have attracted a great deal of attention. However, most of the reports were made from a donor perspective and could hardly reflect the experiences

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