Awareness about evaluation as a tool to enhance results of programmes, policies
Updated: Jan 17, 2015 02:46:24pm
New Delhi, Jan 17 (KNN) EvalWeek, week long programme that will feature consultations on strategies to spread awareness about evaluation as a tool for enhancing results from policies and programmes of sustainable development and good governance will be held here from January-19 to 23.
EvalWeek is organised by the Programme Evaluation Organization (PEO) in the NITI Ayog and the National Institute for Labour Economics Research and Development (NILRD, earlier known as Institute of Applied Manpower Research), an autonomous organization under NITI Ayog, an official release said.
The event marks the beginning of a chain of activities on the theme of evaluation for sustainable development planned by various national and international organizations across the globe coming together as EvalPartners over the year 2015, which has been declared as the International Year of Evaluation.
Participants in EvalWeek consultations are expected to include central and state government officials, representatives of international and national organizations, individual researchers, academicians and evaluation practitioners.
Further, offices based in India of UN Women, UNICEF, OXFAM, 3ie, ISST, CMS have also contributed to the planning and organization of the event.
EvalWeek will be inaugurated on January-17 by Minister of State for Planning, Rao Inderjit Singh here. On this occasion, an EvaluationTorch symbolizing spread of awareness and knowledge about evaluation will be handed over to the Minister by Director of Independent Evaluation Office, UN Women and Co-Chair of United Nations Evaluation Group, Marco Segone.
In addition, a compendium of articles on evaluation policies and practices contributed by various evaluation researchers and evaluation practitioners will also be released to mark EvalWeek.
A number of technical sessions including presentations and discussions have been scheduled, the first of these, on the theme of Enabling Environment for Evaluation, will follow the keynote Address by Segone, and will feature presentations on developing evaluation culture through sensitization, policy support to evaluation, strengthening capacity building for evaluation and evidence-based decision making.
January-19 will also feature two technical sessions, one a panel discussion on evaluation of social sector programmes and the other on the importance of participatory evaluation methods.
Other events during the course of the week include interactions of delegates from other countries with various division s of NITI Aayog, round tables on gender-responsive and equity focused evaluations, case studies, emerging challenges, participatory approaches to evaluation and so on.
EvalWeek will conclude on January-23 with a summing up of the outcomes and valedictory address by the CEO, NITI Ayog. The Evaluation Torch will also be formally handed over to the next event of the International Evaluation Year. (KNN/ES)
EvalWeek is organised by the Programme Evaluation Organization (PEO) in the NITI Ayog and the National Institute for Labour Economics Research and Development (NILRD, earlier known as Institute of Applied Manpower Research), an autonomous organization under NITI Ayog, an official release said.
The event marks the beginning of a chain of activities on the theme of evaluation for sustainable development planned by various national and international organizations across the globe coming together as EvalPartners over the year 2015, which has been declared as the International Year of Evaluation.
Participants in EvalWeek consultations are expected to include central and state government officials, representatives of international and national organizations, individual researchers, academicians and evaluation practitioners.
Further, offices based in India of UN Women, UNICEF, OXFAM, 3ie, ISST, CMS have also contributed to the planning and organization of the event.
EvalWeek will be inaugurated on January-17 by Minister of State for Planning, Rao Inderjit Singh here. On this occasion, an EvaluationTorch symbolizing spread of awareness and knowledge about evaluation will be handed over to the Minister by Director of Independent Evaluation Office, UN Women and Co-Chair of United Nations Evaluation Group, Marco Segone.
In addition, a compendium of articles on evaluation policies and practices contributed by various evaluation researchers and evaluation practitioners will also be released to mark EvalWeek.
A number of technical sessions including presentations and discussions have been scheduled, the first of these, on the theme of Enabling Environment for Evaluation, will follow the keynote Address by Segone, and will feature presentations on developing evaluation culture through sensitization, policy support to evaluation, strengthening capacity building for evaluation and evidence-based decision making.
January-19 will also feature two technical sessions, one a panel discussion on evaluation of social sector programmes and the other on the importance of participatory evaluation methods.
Other events during the course of the week include interactions of delegates from other countries with various division s of NITI Aayog, round tables on gender-responsive and equity focused evaluations, case studies, emerging challenges, participatory approaches to evaluation and so on.
EvalWeek will conclude on January-23 with a summing up of the outcomes and valedictory address by the CEO, NITI Ayog. The Evaluation Torch will also be formally handed over to the next event of the International Evaluation Year. (KNN/ES)
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