Conference: “Evaluating Sustainable Development”

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Conference: “Evaluating Sustainable Development”

Time: October 26, 2015 to October 30, 2015
Location: Thailand
Website or Map: http://www.IDEAS-global.org
Event Type: conference
Organized By: IDEAS, DFID & Fourth International Conf on National Evaluation Capacities
Latest Activity: Oct 30, 2015

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Event Description

Call for abstracts deadline June 15 2015 

The International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), established in 2002 has more than 750 members from more than 70 countries. The theme for Assembly is “Evaluating Sustainable Development”. 

Themes IDEAS envisages the following presentation streams

  1. Education
  2. Health
  3. Equity and Gender
  4. Climate Change
  5. Impact

6.       M&E Systems and capacity development

A limited number of grants will be available to support presenters from developing countries to attend the event.

Selection Criteria The selection committee will be looking at contributions that provide interesting and promising examples of how sustainable development issues can be evaluated, or that raise critical questions and issues that will define future practice. Abstracts may propose presentations, panel sessions, posters or special sessions.

Abstracts will be reviewed on the following broad criteria:

1.       Relevance (abstracts must align in a concise and coherent way with the conference themes and objectives as well as the target audience).

2.       Novelty and innovation (abstracts must present new or emerging issues).

3.       Advancement of practice (abstract should present a significant contribution to the field).

4.       Overall clarity and quality of abstract (abstracts should ensure easy understanding of issues and objectives of the paper).

5.       Originality and unpublished work (presentation must be original and should not have been previously published).

Abstracts will be reviewed by a selection committee to select those that will be presented at the conference. Female and young practitioners from developing countries are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts. A 400 words maximum abstract in Microsoft Word format should be emailed to the IDEAS Board Secretary, Cristina Magro (magro.cristina@gmail.com) by June 15 2015 & must include 

1.       Name and title of presenting author

2.       Email and telephone contact details of presenting author

3.       Title of the paper

4.       Name/s, title/s and institutional affiliation/s of author(s)

5.       Whether the presenting author would need to be sponsored financially to attend the conference

The language of presentation will be English. Applicants will be notified if their abstract is accepted by July 15, 2015.

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Comment by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on August 24, 2015 at 17:19

Will there be sponsorship offered to members of Country Evaluation Associations. 

Isha

Comment by Avinash Chaudhary on May 7, 2015 at 11:21

Dear Ms Rituu,

I will submit an Abstract on Health.

thanks

Avinash

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