When: Monday and Tuesday June 7-8, 2010
Where: Washington, D.C., USA
What: Growing awareness of the interdependencies of our social, economic, and ecological systems requires more efficient use of scarce resources to evaluate complex problems. In this heightened era of accountability, recipients and funders of environmental programs want evidence of what works, and what does not, and better mechanisms for using real time information for decision-making. How will the era of results-based performance affect the quality of environmental evaluations? What must be done to improve the quality of environmental evaluations to meet the requirements and desire for better and more accessible evidence of program and policy effectiveness?
The American Evaluation Association's 2010 Annual Conference will address the issue of Evaluation Quality. The EEN 2010 Forum will explore the practical and theoretical issues that affect evaluation quality that are most pertinent to environmental evaluators, including:
- Balancing the need for accountability, transparency, evidence and improvement
- Integrating measurement and evaluation into the design of programs and policies
- The dispersed and disjointed nature of relevant data and information
- Participatory evaluation vs. expert driven evaluation
- The utility of logic models and other articulations of program theory
- Communication in evaluation - social media and data visualization
- Demonstrating short-term and long term results
TrainEval is an advanced training programme for evaluation in development, which has been adapted to the specific requirements of the European Commission evaluation approach. It has successfully been implemented since 2008 and is now going into its 4th round. Development co-operation (DC) of the European countries as well as the European Commission has a long history of conducting evaluations.
Evaluation processes and methods have continuously been systematised and elaborated. Consequently, donor agencies, government authorities and development organisations require evaluators with a high degree of professionalism and expertise in up to date and versatile methods.
Increasingly complex DC interventions (programming, sector or thematic strategies, SWAP, budget support) as well as impact based evaluations require an extensive knowledge of these methods. As a response to these requirements, AGEG Consultants eG together with Euronet Consulting EEIG has developed a tailor-made training programme, which provides participants with the necessary insights and a tool box of methods for conducting evaluations based on a defensible design and sound analysis leading to credible findings.
Find out more: Visit www.nfwf.org/Content/ for more details. You can register here.
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