Uganda Evaluation Year celebration Report 2015

[Grace Tukaheebwa]

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, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) practitioners and the private sector meet to share evaluation experiences. The ongoing Evaluation week is the third of its kind held annually and it has attracted participants from African Countries, Europe, and the Americas and beyond.  The central theme for the 2015 Evaluation Week is “Quality Evaluations for Accountable Service Delivery”. The week started with a  pre-conference training on Development Evaluation which was conducted for selected participants that applied for training from the 10^th -11^th March 2015, followed by a conference from the 12^th – 13^th March 2015.

Photo: Hon. Member of Parliament for Buhweju (Hon.Biraro) and Minister for General Duties office of the Prime Minister  (OPM)  with Grace K Tukaheebwa during break

 

From the main theme, six sub-themes were identified and these respond to gaps and challenges to evaluation in Uganda. Those are 1) Building a culture of reviews and evaluation with special focus to giving evaluation its platform, understanding the value of evaluation, making evaluation relevant and raising the platform for users of evaluation; 2) Utilization of Evaluations   Knowledge management with special attention to Influencing decision-making, sharing evaluation to stakeholders, utilization of findings and recommendations and Role of Parliament; 3) Strengthening and institutionalizing evaluation capacity & practice focused on capacity building, methodological issues, evaluation process, key challenges for evaluation practice in Uganda and gender and/or conflict sensitive evaluation; 4) Evaluation Ethics, Standards and Systems. This sub-theme is therefore expected to address issues relating to ethics in Evaluation, evaluation Standards, quality assurance and evaluation Systems others themes were Building Evaluation Partnerships and Communities of Practice and Political Economy of evaluation for more information  you can check on our website www.opm.go.ug, www.ugandaevaluationassociation.org, https://ecduganda.wordpress.com/evaluation-week-2/, www.ugandaevaluationassociation.org, https://ecduganda.wordpress.com/evaluation-week-2/ or https://ecduganda.wordpress.com/evaluation-week-2/

FINAL%20%20EVALUATION%20WEEK%20REPORT%202015.pdf

[Grace Tukaheebwa]

Thank you Ada Ocampo and Esteban Tepella greetings from Uganda. In case you are interested in some of the materials from the Evaluation week. please feel free to ask.

[Ada Ocampo]

This is impressive. Sincere congratulations.

[ESTEBAN TAPELLA]

congratulations...! well done! best greetings from Argentina!