Training Opportunities Archive

Using Theories and Frameworks of Evaluation Practice to Inform and Improve our Work

Thursday & Friday May 17-18
2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time

Organizer: American Evaluation Association
Location: Online
Lenght: 3 total contact hours

Details: http://comm.eval.org/coffee_break_webinars/eStudy
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp
Reg Deadline: May 10
For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or all sessions.

Description:
The majority of our evaluation theories are intended to offer principles, rationales, and organization for the procedural choices made by evaluators and to orient practitioners to the issues and problems with which they must deal (Chelimsky, 1998). These "theories" are qualitative models, points-of-view, and approaches to the process of evaluation. Discussions of evaluation theories often focus on a particular approach. In this eStudy webinar, however, participants will be offered an opportunity to examine a range of theories comparatively, while also examining the theories that fit best with each participant's current social, political, and methodological beliefs, values, and practice.
Through lecture and homework, the course will introduce you to different evaluation perspectives and how they can influence how we evaluate. We'll use the Evaluation Theory Tree categorization system to gain a fuller understanding of one's own framework preferences, then compare, contrast, and explore theories from different branches to identify their application at each step in designing and conducting an evaluation.
This eStudy will occur in two 90-minute sessions and will include preparation materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.

Day 1 - This session will discuss a system for categorizing and comparing evaluation frameworks and the key tenants of prevalent evaluation frameworks for practice included in the categorization schema.
Day 2 - This session will cover the ways in which evaluation frameworks can inform, guide, and be used in practice.

Presenter: Christina Christie has taught professional development workshops for many organizations, including the Claremont Graduate Professional Development Workshop Series, the AEA/CDC Summer Institute, the AEA annual conference, and the Canadian Evaluation Society (annual meeting workshops). She has published both peer-reviewed and invited papers on the topic of evaluation theory.

Beginner Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

Mondays & Wednesday, May 7, 9, 14 & 16
2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time

Organizer: American Evaluation Association
Location: Online
Length: 6 total contact hours

Details: http://comm.eval.org/coffee_break_webinars/eStudy
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp
Reg Deadline: April 30
For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or all sessions.

Description:
This eStudy is geared for an audience with beginner level expertise in developmental evaluation (DE). DE is especially appropriate for innovative initiatives or organizations in dynamic and complex environments where participants, conditions, interventions, and context are turbulent, pathways for achieving desired outcomes are uncertain, and conflicts about what to do are high. DE supports reality-testing, innovation, and adaptation in complex dynamic systems where relationships among critical elements are nonlinear and emergent. Evaluation use in such environments focuses on continuous and ongoing adaptation, intensive reflective practice, and rapid, real-time feedback. The purpose of DE is to help develop and adapt the intervention (different from improving a model).
This evaluation approach involves partnering relationships between social innovators and evaluators in which the evaluator’s role focuses on helping innovators embed evaluative thinking into their decision-making processes as part of their ongoing design and implementation initiatives. DE can apply to any complex change effort anywhere in the world. Through lecture, discussion, and small-group practice exercises, this workshop will position DE as an important option for evaluation in contrast to formative and summative evaluations as well as other approaches to evaluation.
This eStudy will occur in four 90-minute sessions and will include preparation materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.

Day 1 - The specific niche for which developmental evaluation is appropriate and useful.
Day 2 - Understanding and distinguishing five different types of DE and the implications of those types.
Day 3 - Implications of complexity concepts for DE theory & practice.
Day 4 - Practical frameworks and innovative methods for use in DE.

Presenter:  Michael Quinn Patton is an independent consultant based in Minnesota and former president of the American Evaluation Association. An internationally known expert on Utilization-focused Evaluation, this workshop is based on his book, Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use (Guilford, 2010).

The Italian National Rural Network, Task Force “Monitoring and Evaluation”, organizes a cycle of meetings involving national and international experts and practitioners on the topic: “The effective use of evaluation results”.

Introduction
Within the framework of rural development programming 2007-2013, the introduction of on-going evaluation requires a reflection on the definition of adequate models of organization of evaluation activities and structures of governance, to improve the quality of the research and give back to the policy-makers and to the other stakeholders of the programmes timely and accurate information on the implementation and effects of policies. It follows that the function of the evaluation to accompanying the implementation of rural development programmes and its actors is strengthen. And the relationship between evaluation and policy is enriched with new food for thought on whether to expand the scope of the research, beyond the community "theory-based" approach, to draw and explore paths to growth the skills that strengthen the relevance, usefulness, understanding and use of evaluations, encouraging the definition and implementation of better policies (evidence-based policy) and more close to the needs of the territories.
In this context, the National Rural Network, within the activities of the “Monitoring and Evaluation" task force, promotes the reflection of the different actors involved in the evaluation process on the topic of the effective utilization of the programme evaluations’ results, encouraging the growth of the ownership of evaluation and of the professional skills, the dialogue and the comparison on different experiences.

Aim
The aim of the meetings is to contribute to the growth of widespread evaluation thinking among the actors involved in defining and implementing evidence-based policies: administrators, evaluators and stakeholders. Throughout the meetings a learning route is set, about useful and usable evaluations, effective communication and evaluations follow up.

More information about this training course available here 

Dates: Mondays April 2, 9, 16, & 23, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or all sessions.
Length: 6 total contact hours

Description: Quantitative data offers opportunities for numerical descriptions of populations and samples. The challenge is in knowing which analyses are best for a given situation. Designed for the practitioner needing a refresher course and/or guidance in applying several univariate quantitative methods to evaluation contexts, the workshop covers the basics of parametric statistics, as well as how to report your findings.

Mini-lectures, computer demonstrations, and homework will introduce methods and concepts. The instructor will review examples of research and evaluation questions and the application of specific statistical methods appropriate to developing a quantitative data-based response.

This eStudy course will occur in 4 90-minute sessions and will include preparation materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.

Day 1 - Measures of central tendency & dispersion (e.g., means & std deviations), the basic General Linear Model, and the t-test

Day 2 - Extend session 1 to ANOVA models

Day 3 - Extend the application of the GLM to correlational analyses, i.e. bivariate correlation

Day 4 - Finish with multiple correlation, i.e. linear regression

All 4 sessions will make a conceptual tie to the GLM and show how tests of means (e.g., t-tests & ANOVAs) and tests of correlation (bivariate and multiple regression) are extensions of the GLM and are therefore related.

Presenter: Katherine McKnight applies quantitative analysis as Director of Research & Evaluation for Pearson School Achievement Services and is co-author of Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction (Guilford, 2007). Additionally, she teaches research methods, statistics, and measurement in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp

Last day to register is Monday March 26

23 March in the Netherlands

An expert seminar with Dr Patton will be organised on March 23: ‘hot issues on the M&E agenda’. This event is on invitation only and will be smaller than the expert seminar on developmental seminar on 22 March. You can register your interest in attending this event and indicate why you would like to participate and what critical M&E issues you would like Patton to discuss.

This expert seminar is organised by Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation in collaboration with Learning by Design, Context, international cooperation, GIZ, Hivos and Cordaid. Register now!

For more information:
http://www.cdi.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/agenda/Hot_debates_on_the_ME_agenda_with_Dr_MQ_Patton.htm

or contact me: cecile.kusters@wur.nl

22nd March, the Netherlands

Developmental evaluation is based on insights from complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. Dr. Michael Quinn Patton will discuss the developmental evaluation framework as detailed in his book ‘Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use’. Patton will illustrate how developmental evaluation can contribute to: ongoing programme development; adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts; generating innovations and taking them to scale; and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Participants will discuss developmental evaluation’s value for the development sector. How is this framework different from existing practice of ongoing reflective monitoring in development? What new insights can help strengthen the utility of evaluation for development?
 
This expert seminar is organised by Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation in collaboration with learning by Design, Context, international cooperation, GIZ, Hivos and Cordaid. Register now!
 
For more information and registration:
http://www.cdi.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/agenda/Developmental_evaluation_conference_with_Dr_MQ_Patton_.htm

March 19th – 21st 2012, Berlin, Germany

Please click here for a detailed information brochure.

Don’t miss your chance to:

• Meet decision makers of the European Commission and top national specialists in EU Funds management!
• Network with around 500 colleagues from over 30 countries!
• Prepare yourself for the 2013-2020 funding period and successfully close your  current programs!

You still have 10 days to profit from our special early booking contingent.
Book until November 25th 2011 and save 300 EUR on the regular price!

For direct event online registration please click here!

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 7th European Annual Symposium
EU Funds 2012!

16 – 20 April 2012
London, UK

DFID and UK Evaluation Society invite you to participate in this course to enhance your development evaluation skills and understanding. Below we highlight the reason for such a course at the present time.

Development evaluation is increasingly called upon to support evidence based policy making and practice in the delivery and management of development programmes. Growing public pressure to secure better results for poverty reduction and other initiatives has generated a high demand for quality and independent evaluations aimed at improved decision making in different countries, contexts and cultures. Consequently, expectations of evaluators’ capabilities are rising.

This course sets out to:

1. Prepare participants for commissioning, conducting and using development evaluation
2. Provide an understanding of methods and processes that need to be in place for evaluation to be effective.

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Describe the contemporary economic, social, political and cultural contexts of development evaluation
• Identify good practice in planning and design
• Outline the diverse approaches and methods of development evaluation.
• Understand the norms, standards and ethics that underpin evaluation
• Understand how to report and disseminate evaluations so they are effectively used.
• Appreciate governance and management arrangements for evaluation and their implications

Who should attend?

Evaluation practitioners, development evaluators, managers and commissioners from all sectors, in particular government institutions and international NGOs. Participants ideally will have experience of:

• Conducting evaluation
• Organisational development
• The development world
• Social science methods

Participants will need to have examples of live evaluations to critique and contribute to course discussions.

Course fees

The fee charged for UKES members is £750 for five days and £850 for non-UKES members excluding VAT. This includes refreshments and lunch daily as well as associated resources.

Venue in central London

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/about-us/contact-us/how-to-find-palace-street/

Course directors

Georgie Parry-Crooke is Associate Director of the Centre for Social and Evaluation Research at London Metropolitan University.
Robert Picciotto Visiting Professor, King’s College, London, Council member of the UKES and board member of the European Evaluation Society (EES) is a former Director-General of the Independent Evaluation Group (World Bank).
Derek Poate Director at ITAD and President of UKES is a recognised M&E and performance assessment specialist.
Helen Simons UKES Council member and former President, is Professor of Education and Evaluation at the University of Southampton and Honorary Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University.

Other contributors

Edoardo Masset  a development economist associated with the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex), has extensive experience in the design and conduct of impact evaluations for development interventions .
Jerry Rabot is co-owner and Director of the Social Innovation Partnership.
Murray Saunders is Director of the Centre for the Study of Education and Training at Lancaster University is a former President of UKES and (EES)

Contact: to apply for the course please contact Aruna Dudhia on 0044 20 7133 5095 or at a.dudhia@londonmet.ac.uk

Course: Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation - Managing for Impact

Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands

Organisation: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation

Deadline for scholarship: 1st October!

Dear colleagues,

We have been successfully running this course, even in 3 parallel groups over the last few years due to high demand. During the training we organise a public event on 'developmental evaluation' by the widely renowned evaluation expert
Dr. Michael Quinn Patton! More info on the event will follow later.

If you want to apply for scholarship, please be fast as the deadline for scholarship is 1st October!

More info can be found: http://www.cdi.wur.nl/UK/newsagenda/agenda/Participatory_planning_monitoring_and_evaluation.htm

'The course recognises that in much of international development we just cannot work with so-called blue-print approaches to planning and management. Though the difference we want to make (impact) needs to be clear, we are often in need of more flexible, adaptive and process-oriented approaches that guide a course of action in navigating complexity and moving forward in making that difference. For this purpose we need learning-orientated M&E that supports managers on an
on-going basis in dealing with a complex and changing context. At the same time, funding agencies, governing agencies and other stakeholders put demands on accountability and transparency. These necessitate effective Planning and M&E systems and processes that guide towards and inform about the progress and impact of development projects and programmes and on other specific information requirements each stakeholder may have'.

With kind regards,

Cecile Kusters
PPME-M4I course coordinator
Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation - Managing for Impact
Multi-Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning
Centre for Development Innovation
Wageningen UR
P.O. Box 88, 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)317 481407 (direct), +31 (0)317 486800 (reception)
Fax +31 (0)317 486801
e-mail: cecile.kusters@wur.nl
website: www.cdi.wur.nl
PPME resource portal: http://portals.wi.wur.nl/ppme/
MSP resource portal: http://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp/

Dates: Wednesdays March 7, 14, & 21 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or all sessions.

Length: 6 total contact hours

Description: This eStudy course will provide an overview of program evaluation for participants with some, but not extensive, prior background in program evaluation. The session will be organized around the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) six-step Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health as well as the four sets of evaluation standards from the Joint Commission on Evaluation Standards. The six steps constitute a comprehensive approach to evaluation. While its origins are in the public health sector, the Framework approach can guide any evaluation. The course will touch on all six steps, but particular emphasis will be put on the early steps, including identification and engagement of stakeholders, creation of logic models, and selecting/focusing evaluation questions. Several case studies will be used both as illustrations and as an opportunity for participants to apply the content of the course and work through some of the trade-offs and challenges inherent in program evaluation in public health and human services.

This eStudy will occur in three 2-hour sessions and will include materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.

Day 1 – An overview of the evaluation framework steps and standards and zoom in on the importance of program description and stakeholders. Participants will work thru a few exercises on building simple but effective logic models and using those for stakeholder engagement.

Day 2 – The different types and phases of evaluation, show how to best set your evaluation focus, and then show how to convert that focus into specific evaluation questions and indicators. Participants will set an evaluation focus and define questions for some of the same cases used in Session 1.

Day 3 – How to make effective choices of data collection sources and methods, including mixed methods.  Some general issues in analysis and reporting will also be addressed. Participants will work thru several cases and illustrations to show how data collections sources and methods fit each situation.

Presenter: Thomas Chapel is the Chief Evaluation Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. He serves as a central resource on strategic planning and program evaluation for CDC programs and their partners. Before joining CDC, Tom was Vice-President of the Atlanta office of Macro International where he directed and managed projects in program evaluation, strategic planning, and evaluation design for public and nonprofit organizations. He is a frequent presenter at national meetings, a frequent contributor to edited volumes and monographs on evaluation, and has facilitated or served on numerous expert panels on public health and evaluation topics.

Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp ($150 full members, $80 student members, $200 nonmembers, $110 student nonmembers)
Last day to register Wednesday February 29, 2012

Professional Development Course
“Realist Evaluation and Dealing with Complexity” – Book these dates now!

May 3-4, 2012

To be held at the Federal Office of Personnel – Berne, Switzerland

The University of Fribourg, Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Department in association with Marlène Läubli of LAUCO Training and Evaluation and the Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) are pleased to announce that their next professional development course in evaluation will be held in Berne on May 3-4, 2012. For on-line registration and more information about the course, please go to www.unifr.ch/travsoc/fr or get in touch with severine.moll-lauper@unifr.ch

The topic will be realist evaluation and complexity and will be run by Dr. Gill Westhorpe, Director of Community Matters, a research and evaluation consultancy specialising in realist methodologies. She is also a recognised expert in realist synthesis and is currently a member of the core research team developing publication standards and guidance materials for realist synthesis. She has provided professional development programs in realist evaluation and realist synthesis around Australia and in England, Scotland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, America, Canada and Vietnam. She regularly presents at national and international conferences.

One of the greatest challenges for evaluation is demonstrating causality - contribution analysis provides a step forward in the right direction – but there are still unresolved difficulties. On the one hand, the same program can generate different outcomes in different situations. On the other hand programs can be implemented very differently in different contexts but generate similar outcomes (at least part of the time). Complex programs in open social systems don’t behave in the ways that linear program logic models suggest, and the interactions between programs and their contexts can be almost impossible to unpack. Realist evaluation offers a substantially different way of dealing with these challenges – it offers a different way of understanding how programs work, and of analyzing the importance of context.

• This practical, hands on workshop will use case studies, practical examples and participants’ own evaluation projects to help participants understand realist evaluation and approaches to using it with complex programs.

Dates: Tuesday & Thursday February 21 & 23, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or both sessions.

Length: 3 contact hours

Description: Empowerment evaluation builds program capacity, fosters program improvement, and produces outcomes. It is used throughout the world, ranging from Australia to Japan and Brazil to New Zealand. Empowerment evaluation teaches people how to help themselves by learning how to evaluate their own programs. The role of the evaluator is that of a coach or facilitator in an empowerment evaluation, since the group is in charge of the evaluation itself. In addition, empowerment evaluation produces both a learning organization and measurable outcomes. This eStudy will introduce you to the steps of empowerment evaluation and tools to facilitate the approach.

This eStudy will occur in two 90-minute sessions and will include preparation assignments and materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.

Day 1 – This session will cover principles guiding empowerment evaluation, such as improvement, capacity building, and accountability. The session will also briefly discuss theories, such as process use and theories of use and action. Concepts covered will include: critical friend, cycles of reflection and action, and a community of learners. This session will also present the steps to plan and conduct an empowerment evaluation, including: 1) establishing a mission or unifying purpose for a group or program; 2) taking stock – creating a baseline to measure future growth and improvement; and 3) planning for the future – establishing goals and strategies to achieve objectives, as well as credible evidence to monitor change.

Day 2 – This session will highlight the use of basic self-monitoring tools such as establishing a baseline, creating goals, specifying benchmarks, and comparing goals and benchmarks with actual performance. In addition, this session will respond to critiques in the literature. The session will also cover how to select appropriate user-friendly technological tools to facilitate an empowerment evaluation, aligned with empowerment evaluation principles. Although questions will be entertained throughout the two sessions, this session will conclude with a formal question and answer period focusing on questions such as: when it is most appropriate to use an empowerment evaluation approach, common challenges, and effective techniques to implement high quality empowerment evaluations.

Presenter: David Fetterman is president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm. He has 25 years’ experience at Stanford University in administration, the School of Education, and the School of Medicine. He is the founder of empowerment evaluation and the author of over 10 books including Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice (Guilford) with his collaborator Abraham Wandersman. He is a past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-Chairs the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation AEA Topical Interest Group. He is a highly experienced and sought after speaker, facilitator, and evaluator.

Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp ($75 full members, $40 student members, $100 nonmembers, $55 student nonmembers)

Last day to register Tuesday February 14, 2012

16th - 17th January 2012, Berlin

Please click here to find detailed brochure information!

• Learn what constitutes an irregularity and how to differentiate fraud from irregularities.
• Become familiar with the challenges and successful solutions for prevention, identification and closure of irregularities.
• Gain in-depth knowledge on handling irregularities in public procurements.
• Learn how to report irregularities to OLAF and the European Commission.
• Become familiar with financial corrections by Member States and the European Commission and learn how to manage financial risks of irregularities.

With the key presentations from:

• OLAF Coordination Bureau, National Tax and Customs Administration, Hungary
• European Policy & Programmes Division, Department for Communities and Local Government, UK
• Department for Protection of EU Financial Interests, Ministry of Finance, Poland
• Higher Education Authority, Ireland
• Regional Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer, Poland

For direct online registration please click here!
If you have any further questions or comments regarding this event please do not
hesitate to contact us.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to this European seminar in Berlin!
Yours sincerely,

Dipl.-Jur. Christoph Brauner / Dipl.-Jur. Christian Klingenberg
Managing Directors

Where: in front of your personal or work computer anywhere in the world.
When: Tuesday, 6th December 2011, from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM New York time.
Cost: Free. No prior registration required.

Within the series of monthly live webinars on Equity-focused evaluations, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, the Rockefeller Foundation, Claremont Graduate University, and IOCE in partnership with IDEAS, OHCHR, UNEG Task Force on National Evaluation Capacities, UNDP, ILO, IDRC and PAHO, are pleased to announce the seventh webinar with Michael Quinn PATTON, Founder and Director, Utilization-focused evaluation, and former President of the American Evaluation Association, on “Developmental Evaluation”.

Detailed agenda and instruction on how to log in are available at MyM&E.

Webinars are free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments. You just need a computer, high-speed internet connection thru cables, a headphone with microphone and the latest Java program installed. You do NOT need to register in advance. Just log in the day of the webinar. For a quick participants guide to Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate Live), the software used for this webinar, see Getting Started for Participants Quick Reference Guide.

Recordings and presentations for this new webinar series on “Equity-focused evaluations” by:

• Colin Kirk and Penny Hawkins on “Evaluation to accelerate progress towards equitable development”
• Belen Sanz and Flaminia Minelli on “Human rights and Gender equality in evaluations”
• Marco Segone and Michael Bamberger on “How to design, implement and use equity-focused evaluations”
• Saville Kushner on “Case study and equity in evaluation”
• Bob Williams and Martin Reynolds on “Systems thinking for Equity-focused evaluations”
• Patricia Rogers and Richard Hummelbrunner on “Program theories and LogFrames to evaluate pro-poor and equity programs”

are available at MyM&E: http://mymande.org/?q=equity_focused_evaluation&x=cl

Recording and presentations of previous webinars on “Developing national capacities for country M&E systems” by:

• Saraswathi Menon and Finbar O’Brien on “The role of the UN in fostering national ownership and capacities in evaluation”;
• Michael Quinn Patton on “Future trends in evaluation” and Marco Segone on “Moving from policies to results by developing national capacities for country-led monitoring and evaluation systems”;
• Caroline Heider on “Evaluating policies and their results” and Craig Russon on "The role of policy analysis in over-coming the implementation challenge”;
• Belen Sanz and Florence Etta on “Human Rights and gender in evaluation";
• Linda Morra Imas, Robert Picciotto and Jean Quesnel on "The Professionalization of evaluation";
• Oscar Garcia and Angela Bester on "Joint evaluation of the role and contribution of the UN system in South Africa. Lessons learned";
• Michael Bamberger on "Institutionalizing impact evaluation. A key element in strengthening country-led monitoring and evaluation systems";
• Hallie Preskill and Alexey Kuzmin on "Exploring effective strategies for facilitating evaluation capacity development";
• Michael Quinn Patton on "Utilization-focused evaluations";
• David Fetterman on "Empowerment evaluation"

are available at http://mymande.org/index.php?q=content/developing-capacities-country-monitoring-evaluation-system&x=cl

Recording and presentations of previous webinars on “Emerging Practices in Development Evaluation” by

• Zenda Ofir and Shiva Kumar on "Using a Developing Country Lens in Evaluation”;
• Fred Carden on "Emerging Practices in Evaluating Policy Influence”;
• Jared Raynor on "Evaluating Networks & Partnerships”;
• Charles Lusthaus and Katrina Rojas on "Evaluating Organizational Performance";
• Steve Rochlin on "Evaluating Innovation";
• Alastair Bradstock on "Evaluating Sustainable Development

are available at http://mymande.org/index.php?q=content/emerging-practices-in-development-evaluation&x=cl

Best regards,
Marco Segone

NOTICE: The opinions expressed are the personal thinking of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the policies or views of the organizing institutions or any other organization involved and named in this series of webinars.

21st – 22nd November 2011, Berlin

Please click here to find detailed information on this seminar!

YOUR BENEFIT:

• Get confidence on how to proceed with the application of the simplified cost options.
• Make better use of EU Funding through less administrative burden.
• Receive know-how on proper calculation methods.
• Learn in practical exercises how to choose the right option for your projects.
• Increase the efficiency of your work and learn how to ensure sound audit process without uncertainty.

For direct online registration please click here!

If you have further questions or comments regarding this event, please do not hesitate to
contact us.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to this European Seminar in Berlin soon.

Yours sincerely,

Dipl.-Jur. Christoph Brauner / Dipl.-Jur. Christian Klingenberg
Managing Directors

European offering of International Programme for Development Evaluation Training

Development Worldwide (DWW) and the Slovak Evaluation Society have the pleasure to launch preliminary invitation to the European Program for Development Evaluation Training - EPDET 2011, to continue the tradition of this European summer school – mini IPDET started in 2007 (see section Czech DET at www.dww.cz).

The core curriculum of the training follows a successful scheme of the Summer school IPDET (www.ipdet.org), organized annually by Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

EPDET 2011 will be provided in English again by top lecturers Ms. Linda G. Morra Imas and Mr. Ray C. Rist. The training is recommended for evaluators and managers of development projects and programs.

The training graduates will obtain Certificate of the IDEAS - International Development Evaluation Association (www.ideas-int.org).

For more information please see the  Invitation brochure.

Application form  downloadable here.

Dear colleagues,

The Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, in partnership with UNICEF India, are pleased to announce the forthcoming course:

Evaluation for Development, Indian School of Business and UNICEF, Hyderabad, India
13 – 19 September 2011

ISB and UNICEF India are jointly launching this course/programme, which is designed to provide a comprehensive analytical framework and practical learning experience for those involved in commissioning, managing or conducting evaluations of public policies or social sector programmes. It uses contemporary case studies from different regions within India and outside to examine the core elements that constitute the practice of development evaluation. Both national and international participants are eligible for the course.

Course Brochure as well as application form (pdf - editable) are attached.

Participants can register by filling out the attached editable pdf. This form, once completed, can be send, no later than August 19th, 2011 to Sunitha Budati at Sunitha_Budati@isb.edu

To register online you may wish to visit the Indian School of Business site:
http://www.isb.edu/cee/EventMgmt.aspx
(once at ISB's site please scroll down until September as the courses are list by month).

For further information, contact Michiru Sugi (msugi@unicef.org) or Aindrila Chatterjee (aindrila_chatterjee@isb.edu).

PDF Application form

Course brochure

Announcement

Online Registration Open for the 2011 International Program for Development Evaluation Training (June 13 – July 8)

This is the 11^th year that IPDET will offer eighty hours of instruction and hands-on learning in the fundamentals of development evaluation during the two week Core Course (June 13 – 24), as well as more than 25 workshops in the two weeks that follow the Core Course (June 27 – July 1; July 4 – 8).  Several dynamic new workshops include:

• “Evaluating Networks and Coalitions”, taught by Jared Raynor, Senior Consultant with the TCC Group (originally, The Conservation Company) in the United States, and Heather Creech, Director, Global Connectivity, International Institute for Sustainable Development
• “Developmental Evaluation: Applying Systems Thinking and Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use”, taught by Michael Q. Patton, Evaluation Consultant, author and former President, American Evaluation Association
• “Quantitative Impact Evaluation: Advanced Level”, taught by Jose Galdo, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Department of Economics at Carleton

Applicants can register for one to four weeks of training. In addition to intensive learning in large and small groups, the program includes special guest speakers, networking events, participant roundtables, and more.

Go to the website – www.ipdet.org - for more information about the program and our outstanding group of world-class, international instructors and to register on-line.

Ex-ante, Ongoing and Ex-post evaluation, good quality indicators, counterfactual impact evaluation – the good knowledge of evaluation and monitoring methodology is an obligation for officers working on projects and Operational Programmes within EU Funds.
Are you familiar with the advanced evaluation techniques and the toolkit recommended by the European Commission?
To provide you with extensive knowledge, best practices and case studies on successful monitoring and evaluation measures, we decided to extend our previous seminar:
European Advanced Workshop:

Measuring Tools and Evaluation Techniques for EU Funds

20th – 21st June 2011, Berlin

Please click here to find detailed information!
Our experts:

• Stanislaw Bienias, Head of National Evaluation Unit, Department of Structural Policy Coordination, Ministry of Regional Development, Poland
• Peter Kaufmann, Experienced Evaluator and Expert Member of the European Network for Rural Development, Austria

will lead this interactive workshop and work together with you on the following subjects:

• Toolkit consisting of different types of indicators best suited for your project
• Techniques for setting measurable goals and good quality indicators
• Counterfactual impact evaluation and its practical use
• Cost-benefit analysis and alternative approaches

Send us your questions and particular problems in advance and our experts will integrate these issues into the workshop!

If you have any further questions or comments regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to this European advanced workshop in Berlin!

Yours sincerely,

Elisa Bianchini, M.A.
Customer Relationship Manager Europe

E-Mail: team@euroakad.eu
Web: www.euroacad.eu

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Where: Bologna, Italy

When: Monday through Saturday  6 - 11 June 2011

The Center for International Development Bologna, in collaboration with  SUNY/CID of Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York, would like to bring your attention to a short summer course on M&E for international development programmes.   A course brochure, detailed syllabus and application information can be found at www.cid-bo.org  and www.cid.suny.edu. 

The Summer School is a 6-day intensive course delivered in English.  The course is  open to applicants of any country and background, and gives 4 credits (graded by the European Credit Transfer System). The enrollment fee is 1,550 Euro. A small number of tuition scholarships will be available for applicants from developing countries only. Policy makers, program managers, ministerial strategy departments, and staff and consultants responsible for M&E will find this course useful. It presents analytical tools solidly grounded in economic theory applied to the practical questions of monitoring and evaluating policy programs in developing countries
 
The Course begins with an overview of M&E methods and practices, with particular attention to Poverty Reduction and Social Policies, including education, health and social assistance, in developing countries. The design and implementation of poverty reduction programs provide classic examples of how, in planning, monitoring and evaluation we confront the core issues of how policy making effectiveness is influenced by donor development strategies and reporting requirements. The course will then move on the data and indicators required for different M&E purposes.  M&E techniques and practices will be explored through the examination of actual examples from developing countries.  The course will cover the Results-Based M&E approach and applications, and other cutting-edge M&E tools and practices including developmental evaluation and utilization focused evaluation.   The Outcome Mapping sessions extend the preceding session’s emphasis on use-oriented and developmental monitoring and evaluation.  Interactive sessions will offer participants an opportunity to learn about and apply tools and concepts specifically designed for planning, monitoring and evaluating policies and programs aimed at sustainable improvements in the well-being of people in the poverty affected areas of the world.  The final day of the course is organized as a  Peer Assist Consultation Clinic in which participants can bring their own projects and problems to be analyzed with the trainers and participants.  
 
The Summer School is part of the University of Bologna International Summer School Programme. It is organized and managed by the Centre for International Development in cooperation with the University Of Bologna Faculty Of Political Sciences, the Department of Economics and the Department of Political Science. The School is co-organized by the Center for International Development at the Rockefeller College for Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany of the State University of New York.

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