EvalStories: Watch short videos by 21 key evaluators worldwide

[Asela Kalugampitiya]

Dear colleagues,

In September 2015, the UN General Assembly will endorse the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are universal, integrated, comprehensive, and have a particular focus on social equity and gender equality. SDGs will shape development strategies at global, regional and national levels for the next 15 years. Thanks to the efforts of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) and EvalPartners, the SDG Outcome document is calling for country-led evaluation and National Evaluation Capacity Development. We believe that the evaluation community must work together to ensure that evaluation remains relevant and is fit for purpose in a world where development will be guided by the SDGs. This is why EvalPartners is leading a participatory consultative process to define the 2016-2020 Global Evaluation Agenda. During the 2015 International Year of evaluation, thousands of evaluators are contributing their voices and thinking through an online consultation and face-to-face discussions in 77 events all over the world.

EvalPartners has teamed up with Universalia, a Canadian management consulting firm established in 1980, to launch the EvalStory campaign.  Starting today, EvalStory will release two videos per week (see schedule below) presenting messages from top evaluation influencers and members of the wider evaluation community to ensure that the voices of evaluation advocates are heard.

To watch the first two videos pls clickhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbg2vuyzWspHFPk3rjJdZhA/feed

We hope you enjoy their messages, wisdom and experience! Please share this announcement with your networks to ensure their voices are heard globally!

Marco Segone and Natalia Kosheleva, EvalPartners Co-chairs

Marie-Hélène Adrien, President, Universalia

 

Weekly schedule of video releases
20 August	Marco Segone	Co-chair, EvalPartners; Chair -UNEG; Director, UN Women Independent Evaluation Office
	Marie-Hélène Adrien	President - Universalia
31 August	Shakti Prasad Pal	Director, Evaluation Method and Statistics, Independent Evaluation Office, Government of India
	Mallika Samaranayake	President – Community of Evaluators – South Asia
7 September	Juha Uitto	Director, Independent Evaluation Office at Global Environment Facility (IEO-GEF)
	Caroline Heider	Director‐General and Senior Vice President of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) at the World Bank Group
14 September	Jennifer Bisgard	AfrEA representative to International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) board
	Michael Quinn Patton	Founder and Director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
21 September	Dorothy Lucks	Secretary - International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
	Michael Bamberger	Member of International Evaluation Advisory Committee of the UNDP’ Evaluation Office and former M&E Specialist at the World Bank
28 September	Ian Davies	Former Advisor to the President of the Treasury Board of Canada, Former President of the European Evaluation Society
	Ian Hopwood	Former representative of UNICEF office in Dakar and Honorary President - SenEval
5 October	Barbara Rosenstein	President – Israeli Association for Programme Evaluation
	Abdou Karim Lo	Vice-President, SenEval
12 October	Jindra Cekan	Evaluation Specialist
	Charles Lusthaus	Founder and Senior Consultant at Universalia
19 October	Volodymyr Kuprii	Chair at International Programme Evaluation Network
	Ziad Moussa	President, International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)
26 October	Adam Suleiman	President, African Evaluation Association
	Koshy Thomas	President of the Malaysian Evaluation Society
2 November	Claudine Voyadzis	EES President

 

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