Supplementary Call for Applications for Young/Emerging Evaluators

[Asela Kalugampitiya]

Thanks to additional funding being offered by the MasterCard Foundation, IOCE/EvalPartners are pleased to announce that eight additional Young/Emerging Evaluators can now be invited to participate in theGlobal Evaluation Week. 23-27 November, in Kathmandu, Nepal. 

The Global Evaluation Week begins with the EvalPartners Global Evaluation Forum that will be held November 23^rd and 24^th, 2015. On November 25^th, the final EvalYear celebrations will be held at the Parliament of Nepal.  On November 26^th and 27^th, the Community of Evaluators – South Asia (CoE-SA) Evaluation Conclave will be held in Kathmandu. Global Evaluation Forum attendees are welcome to extend their stay to attend the Conclave, with their registrations made and paid for by IOCE.

There has already been a call and selection process through which 122 individuals have been invited to come to Nepal to participate in the Global Evaluation Forum.    With this new grant eight additional Young/Emerging Evaluators (YEE) can be invited.

 

Definition of Young/Emerging Evaluators (YEE):

·       Evaluators under age of 30 years OR

·       Novice evaluators who have less than 5 years of professional experience OR

·       Recent university graduates who are interested and willing to join the evaluation profession OR

·       Development professionals who have technical knowledge on evaluation and willing to become professional evaluators.

·       For the purposes of this call, they are also expected to be active members of their national VOPE.

To learn more about the new EvalYouth network, see postings on the IOCE forum, especially the EvalYouth Concept Note.

 

Where can these eight additional YEE come from?

Given the geographic restrictions attached to these additional funds, only VOPEs from the following regionsare invited to submit names of YEE whom they would like to nominate to be considered for invitation to the GEF:Africa, Asia, Latin America, CIS and MENA.

 

Note: YEE from the following VOPEs have previously been accepted and invited to the GEF, and are excludedfrom this call for additional YEE nominees: AEA (USA), AES (Afghanistan), AMENA (Afghanistan), ANZEA (Aotearoa New Zealand), PEA (Palestine), RedParaguay, RFE (YEE from Canada), SAMEA (South Africa), SOMDEA (Somalia), TEN (Tunisia), UEA (Uganda) and ZEA (Zimbabwe).

 

Other VOPEs from Africa, Asia, Latin America, CIS and MENA are welcome to submit nominations of their own YEE to be considered for this additional opportunity. VOPEs in francophone countries are especially encouraged to nominate YEE delegates.

 

The application form for additional nominations of Young/Emerging Evaluators can be found at the bottom of the attached Word document.  Applications should be sent to [e-mail]. Deadline for receipt of nominations is 28 September, 2015.

 

Jim

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Co-Coordinator of the EvalPartners Initiative and IOCE

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