Posts filed under ‘Trainings, Seminars & Conferences’
Webinars on Development Evaluation
UNICEF, the Rockefeller Foundation, Claremont Graduate University, IOCE and DevInfo, are offering a series of live webinars on “Emerging Practices in Development Evaluation”.
Following are the dates, speakers and subjects of the webinars:
13 October 2010
Using a Developing Country Lens in Evaluation
Zenda Ofir, Independent Consultant; Former President, African Evaluation Association
Shiva Kumar, Independent Consultant, India
16 November 2010
Emerging Practices in Evaluating Policy Influence
Fred Carden, Director, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Center (IDRC)
7 December 2010
Evaluating Networks and Partnerships
Jared Raynor, Senior Consultant at TCC Group
January 2011
Evaluating Capacity Development
Peter Morgan, Independent Consultant
February 2011
Evaluating Organizational Performance
Charles Lusthaus, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Universalia Management Group; and Associate Professor, McGill University
March 2011
Evaluating Innovation
Steve Rochlin, Director and U.S. Representative for AccountAbility
April 2011
Evaluating Sustainable Development
Alastair Bradstock, Business Development Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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“Masterclasses” on evaluation
Two interesting “Masterclasses” coming up from the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Bonn Germany in the evaluation field:
Complexity in Project Management and Evaluation, 16 – 17 September 2010, Bonn
The Masterclass is designed for experienced evaluation practitioners and researchers who are able to bring and speak about examples of their own practice during the workshop. Participants will be exposed to ideas derived from complexity sciences, addressing a range of methods, and in particular the importance of reflection and reflexivity in research. The workshop will be lead by Dr. Chris Mowles, who has worked in international development for thirty years and currently combines consultancy practice with directing the innovative doctoral programme at the Complexity Research Group, University of Hertfordshire.
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Practical Skills for Conducting Impact Evaluations, 4 – 5 November, Bonn
As an interactive workshop, this Masterclass will focus on training participants to conduct impact evaluations in the context of development projects and programmes. Apart from addressing key challenges and methodological approaches, the event will also hold discussions based on a comparative analysis of methods used in impact evaluation practices. Several exercises during the workshop will facilitate practical skills-building for the participants’ future work.
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2010 Claremont evaluation debate – webcast – 21 August
The Claremont Graduate School (USA) are hosting their annual Claremont Evaluation Debate, which can be viewed online free of charge.
“Using Systems Theories to Improve Evaluation Practice: Promise and Pitfalls”
August 21, 2010, 12:15 pm (Pacific time)
Systems theories have been put forth as one of the latest innovations to improve evaluation practice. What are they? How can they be used to improve evaluation practice? When should they be used? When should they be avoided? What are their limitations? Is systems thinking in evaluation the latest short lived fad or a legitimate breakthrough? The answers to these questions will be discussed and debated head-to-head in Claremont.
The Promise of System Theories: Dr. Michael Quinn Patton and Dr. Bob Williams
The Pitfalls of System Theories: Dr. Michael Scriven and Dr. Stewart Donaldson
Live from the AMEC summit Barcelona
I am currently attending the AMEC Summit on Communication Measurement.
Follow the conference on Twitter: #AMEC10.
I’ll blog further with some updates from the conference…
Summer 2010 – Professional Development Workshop Series – evaluation and applied research
Claremont Graduate University (California, USA) has announced its Summer 2010 Professional Development Workshop Series on a variety of topics in evaluation and applied research. From August 20-23, you can participate in them directly in California or join them online for interactive webcasts:
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Online course – Designing projects to be monitored and evaluated
Here is an interesting online course for those interested in designing projects to be monitored and evaluated:
Results Based Project Design – Live Online
Designing projects to be monitored and evaluated
5 two hour sessions over 5 weeks from 19/06/10 to 16/06/10
This course will enable participants to design a project using stakeholder analysis, problem and objective analysis, the Logical Framework approach, activity planning and budgeting. It will introduce and deepen knowledge of a range of tools used to analyse a situation, design a project, and plan the activities and budget. By the end of the course participants will have gained the skills to design and prepare a project proposal to use in their work.
summer school on evaluation, Italy
The University of Bologna have announced their summer school for six intensive days (in English) on monitoring and evaluation from 7-12 June.
Virtual Conference – Methodology in Programme Evaluation – April 2010
Following is an interesting initiative for a “virtual conference” on programme evaluation:
The Wits Programme Evaluation Group, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is organising a virtual conference on methodology in programme evaluation during April 2010. The conference aims to attract papers, case studies and workshop or teaching materials, from persons working both in the developed and the developing world. It is being held between April 7th and April 9th 2010, when upload of draft conference contributions takes place.
More information relative to the procedures, deadlines and costs of making a contribution can be found at:
http://wpeg.wits.ac.za/evaluationconference2009-CallForPapers.pdf
Call for Papers, which can be downloaded from the conference website at: http://wpeg. wits.ac.za/
The conference proceedings will be published. Our aim as a programme committee is to create a resource will be useful not only to evaluation practitioners, but also to those teaching and training programme evaluation in both developing and developed countries. Costs of participation and of accessing the proceedings have been deliberately kept low, for the reason that the programme committee aims to attract contributions both from persons working in both developing as well as in more developed country contexts.
20 minute webinars for evaluators
The American Evaluation Association is presenting a series of 20 minute webinar-based demonstrations by and for evaluators – Demonstrations are free for members of the AEA and non-members can purchase a demonstration pass ($80 for unlimited demonstrations for one year, $30 for students including AEA membership).
Here are the next scheduled webinars:
Thursday, February 4, 2:00-2:20 PM EST: Submitting an AEA Conference Proposal – Susan Kistler
Tuesday, February 9, 10:00-10:20 AM EST: Tools for Evaluation Teaching and Training: Approaches to Introducing the Concept of Evaluation – José María Díaz Puente and Michael Newman
Thursday, February 18, 2:00-2:20 PM EST: Using Jing for Teaching and Learning – Theresa Murphrey
Online training course on results-based Monitoring and Evaluation
Here’s an interesting online course offered five times in 2010:
“Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation
This 10 hour live online course will enable you to prepare the ground for undertaking monitoring and evaluation and analysing the results. Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation will help participants understand the key components for effective M&E in order to improve management performance and evidenced based decision making. The course explores how to establish the necessary framework for good M&E based on clarifying stakeholders, bringing the Logical Framework up to date, and generating a set of criteria against which to measure progress.”
Note: this blog has no commercial association with the course organisers – it just seems an interesting course!
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