EvalCafe_Yaounde 2015

Celebration of EvalYear 2015 in Cameroon by Cameroonian Community of Evaluators

I-                    ORIGIN ANF OBJECTIVES OF « EVALCAFE »

Under the initiative of the Former President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), Mr Serge Eric Yakeu, EvalCafé was launched in May 2015 with the…

The Government of Uganda represented by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Evaluation in partnership with the Uganda Evaluation Association with support from USAID, GIZ-ECD project and International Labour Organization organized the Uganda Evaluation Week 2015 to join the rest of the world in celebration for  Evalyear 2015. This Event is an international platform where Policy makers, Government technocrats, Civil Society, Academia, Development Partners,…

Uganda Evaluation Week 2015 Conference Report on the Pre-Conference Training Topic: Conducting Gender Sensitive Evaluations Trainers: Rose Nalwadda& Grace Tukaheebwa

Introduction: This report presents feedback on the pre-conference training on conducting gender sensitive evaluations that took place on 11th March 2015 during the Uganda Evaluation Week 2015. It outlines the purpose of the training, explains the methodology used, highlights the participants’ general appreciation of…

Venue: Community Development Journal conference Edinburgh,

Time: late afternoon,– 2^nd July 2015

 I was attending the session on Raising Refugee Women’s Voices facilitated by Fiona Ballantyne in which shared how her organization has tackled key issues around asylum and international protection, and the extent to which ‘institutions’ have responded to the insights and aspirations of refugee and asylum seeking women.

Two women both from Africa shared their…

UN Women invites you to share your gender-responsive evaluations on the Gender Equality Evaluation Portal: http://genderevaluation.unwomen.org/en/accounts/register Currently there are over 400 evaluations in the database.

The UN…

Is accounting for gender in an evaluation enough to term it gender-transformative? Watch Ranjani K. Murthy as she answers this and provides an overview of gender-transformative evaluations.

This video is the first in the series of training videos  being produced under ISST's project - Engendering Policy through Evaluation. 

Do share your feedback. Also, do let us know if you have any questions pertaining to gender-transformative or gender - responsive equity focused…

Hi everyone

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At the request of Marie Gervais, I am forwarding this announcement to all of you on several listservs, with special attention to those of you who are leaders of VOPEs (Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation) in French-speaking countries.…

Dear Gender and Evaluation community,

The month of June marks The Improve Group’s 15-year anniversary. In this time, I have found Gender and Evaluation listserv, as well as other evaluation-focused listservs, to be my professional “home”. From the challenging questions posed, to the theoretical and philosophical positions, to the professional camaraderie, this has been a wonderful community. Thank you, Gender and Evaluation members!

To commemorate The Improve Group’s…

- When I asked women and men from six Chennai [India] slums: "What are the changes - positive and negative - you have seen in the last five years in the institutions of marriage, family, markets and state?" they pointed to quite a few changes and recommendations. These are discussed first, followed by recommendations from evaluations of government schemes in the same city. The disjuncture between women’s evaluations and government evaluations is then contrasted, and, finally, recommendations…

IPDET will have a live video stream of Marco Segone’s Speakers Lunch, this Wednesday, June 24^th starting at approximately from 12:45 pm (E.T.).

This is an accessible way to share Marco’s talk with a broader audience and celebrate the International Year of Evaluation.…

My name is Albie Colvin, I am a young Melbourne-based social entrepreneur/philanthropist; I run ACGD Design - community based creative communications company, and I am the founder of Colour Them Safe (CTS) - small international arts initiative aimed at improving the livelihoods of disadvantaged young people through art programs and…

Hi Gender and Eval Community!

Over on my blog, free-range evaluation, I recently shared some thoughts on how my colleagues and I have been working to support and promote "evaluative thinking," especially among "non-evaluators" (i.e., program implementers who don't see themselves as evaluators, or who maybe even dislike evaluation). 

Here, I share some of…

EvalPartners newsletter June issue http://createsend.com/t/d-C7B3EB940D86DAEC

Colleagues, pls share information on the EES emerging evaluators virtual conference 19.9.2015 - link below.…

University of Sri Jayewardenepura is pleased to announce the commencement of the intake of the first batch of the postgraduate diploma in evaluation for the academic year 2015. The primary objective of this programme is to generate a stream of academically trained evaluation professionals in Sri Lanka. It is open to students and professionals qualified in diverse development related study areas to obtain professional qualifications in programme evaluation. The course is carefully…