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The international Partnership Initiative to promote Evaluation Capacity Development

The international Partnership Initiative to promote Evaluation Capacity Development. EvalPartners: Why now?. Recognition of significant growth and existing expertise From Paris “Declaration on Aid effectiveness” to Busan “Partnership for effective development cooperation”

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The international Partnership Initiative to promote Evaluation Capacity Development

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  1. The international Partnership Initiative to promote Evaluation Capacity Development

  2. EvalPartners: Why now? • Recognition of significant growth and existing expertise • From Paris “Declaration on Aid effectiveness” to Busan “Partnership for effective development cooperation” • The role of Civil society organizations (CSO) in National Evaluation Systems • An initiative to strengthen equity-focused and gender-responsive Country-led Evaluation Systems through wider partnership and use of innovation

  3. EvalPartners: What? • Equity-focused and Gender-responsive evaluation systems/policies

  4. An international collaborative initiative with 29+ key partners and others still joining

  5. EvalPartners Guiding Principles

  6. EvalPartners GOVERNANCE Structure

  7. To promote collaboration among evaluation organizations (VOPEs) to strengthen Evaluation Capacity Development … including addressing the evaluation environment, i.e. policies, systems, demand for and use of evaluations. Purpose of the EvalPartners Initiative

  8. Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation I.e. formal associations or societies; informal networks / communities of practice … open to a wide variety of members What’s a VOPE?

  9. Mapping the status of VOPEs around the world

  10. 1981 Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Societecanadienned'evaluation (SCE)

  11. 1986 – American Evaluation Association (AEA) merger of Evaluation Research Society (1979) and Evaluation Network (1982)

  12. 1987 – Australasian Evaluation Society (AES)

  13. 1992 – UKEvaluation Society (UKES)

  14. 1994 – EuropeanEvaluation Society (EES)

  15. 1999 – African Evaluation Association(AfrEA)

  16. 2000 – International Program Evaluation Network (IPEN)

  17. 2004 – ReLAC (Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización en America Latina y el Caribe)

  18. 2008 – Community of Evaluators South Asia (CoE/SA)

  19. Mapping the status of VOPEs See existing interactive world map and database of global VOPEs at www.IOCE.net

  20. That amazing growth of the evaluation profession is more succinctly summarized in the following bar graph …

  21. Cumulative number of VOPEs in existence, by year (only including those reporting year of formation)

  22. EvalPartners VOPE survey by the numbers Note: these numbers constantly change as new information is received. These numbers as of Sept. 2013.

  23. Current membership numbers reported (including overlaps)(multiple memberships)

  24. How formally organized are these VOPEs?

  25. How VOPEs are addressing “the evaluation environment” in their countries An important component of the EvalPartners mapping survey has been to find out what VOPEs are doing to promote ECD in general, and governmental policies and the “demand side” for evaluation in particular.

  26. How VOPEs are addressing “the evaluation environment” in their countries

  27. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Program+ Innovation Challenge grants Multiple mutually beneficial partnerships being formed!

  28. Here’s what some of these partnerships look like geo-graphically

  29. Enabling Environment Taskforce Toolkit to help VOPEs advocate for enhanced national evaluation policies and systems

  30. Institutional Capacity Taskforce Toolkit to help VOPEs strengthen their institutional capacities, including membership, governance, communications, finances

  31. E-Learning Taskforce Series of online webinars and courses based on the www.MyMandE.org portal

  32. E-Learning courses offered by 33 world-level experts • International experts, including Michael Quinn Patton, Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, David Fetterman, Patricia Rogers, Stewart Donaldson, Donna Mertens, Jennifer Greene, Bob Williams, Martin Reynolds, Saville Kushner and Hallie Preskill • Senior representatives of the international community, including Caroline Heider, Belen Sanz,Indran Naidoo, Fred Carden, Hans Lundgren, and Marco Segone • Senior managers responsible for country-led M&E systems, including SivagnanasothyVelayuthan and Diego Dorado • Leaders from the Global South and BRIC countries, including Zenda Ofir, Shiva Kumar and Alexey Kuzmin

  33. E-Learning Visitor Map

  34. Books published

  35. Equity-Focused and Gender-Responsive Taskforce Promoting some of the underlying principles and over-all goals of EvalPartners

  36. Sept-Oct. 2013 NEC conference with UNDP, Brazil

  37. See updated current information about EvalPartners at: www.MyMandE.org/EvalPartners

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