Invitation to Webinar on “From Recommendations to Actions: The Role of Management Responses in Promoting Evaluation Use” l 12 Sep 2024

[InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust]

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar on “From Recommendations to Actions: The Role of Management Responses in Promoting Evaluation Use” organized by the UNEG Use of Evaluation Working Group. 

Date: Thursday, 12 September 2024. 

Time: 09.00-10.00 (New York) / 15.00-16.00 (Geneva) / 16.00-17.00 (Nairobi). 

We will be joined by Anna Guerraggio, Chief, Engagement and Communication, from the Independent Evaluation Office at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and Katinka Koke, Specialist, Rebeca Lara, Trainee, and Roxana Gomez Valle, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Consultant from the Planning, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, Division for Strategic Planning and Performance (PPME) at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). They will share the results of studies on the quality of management responses that they conducted to inform actions to promote evaluation use in their organizations. 

The agenda will be as follows:

·                Welcome remarks by the UNEG Use of Evaluation Working Group.

·                Evaluation use in UNDP: Insights from the management response system by Anna Guerraggio. 

·                Insights from a review of the quality of management responses to independent evaluations at UNITAR by Katinka Koke, Rebeca Lara, and Roxana Gomez Valle. 

·                Q&A session.

·                Closing remarks by the UNEG Use of Evaluation Working Group. 

The webinar will be moderated by Patrick Duerst, Evaluation Specialist, Independent Evaluation Service, UN Women and co-lead of Work Stream 1 on Good Practices for Evaluation Use within the UNEG Use of Evaluation Working Group. 

Please join the webinar through this link or the calendar invite (attached). 

We also encourage you to share this invitation with other colleagues working on evaluation outside of UNEG. 

We hope that you can join us, and look forward to an interesting exchange. 

Kind regards, 

The Use of Evaluation Working Group