Two sets of one-day training workshops will be organized on 16 and 17 October to allow participants to explore subjects in-depth with experts from around the world.
Workshop 1: Multi-stakeholder partnerships for achieving the SDGs: implications for evaluation practice
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for multi-stakeholder partnerships for achieving the SDGs. The importance of promoting diverse partnerships and greater cooperation between Governments, civil society, Parliaments and the private sector to increase awareness and use of evaluations, was one of the key messages from the NEC 2015 Conference. Multi-stakeholder approaches to development are not new, and the SDGs seek to renew and strengthen the emphasis on multi-stakeholder approaches.
Multi-stakeholder approaches to development come with a number of complexities and challenges. What does this mean for evaluation practice? Are our current methodologies and approaches appropriate for dealing with the complexities of multi-stakeholder approaches? What capacities do we need to evaluate multi-stakeholder approaches?
This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore and reflect on the practicalities of evaluating multi-stakeholder approaches to achieving the SDGs. This is a practical workshop where participants will develop terms of reference for an evaluation of a multi-stakeholder partnership. There is no ‘right way’ to design the evaluation, and so the learning will come from the engagement within the groups. From the discussions we expect to generate principles that evaluators can apply, and that will contribute to the final conference output.
Presenter: Angela Bester
Date: 16 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Workshop 2: Améliorer l’utilisation des données d’évaluation par les décideurs au sein du gouvernement
Cet atelier sera présenté en français
Cet atelier de formation aborde les différentes conceptualisations de l’utilisation de l’évaluation, le processus d’élaboration des politiques publiques de développement et les facteurs en jeu pour qu’une évaluation gagne en influence. Les participants reçoivent des lignes directrices précises et systématiques sur la façon de prendre en compte les obstacles et faciliter l’utilisation d’évaluation au cours de la phase de planification des évaluations. Les participants apprendront aussi comment développer un plan d’influence politique explicite pour toutes les évaluations menées afin d’augmenter la probabilité d’utilisation de ces évaluations par le public-cible, en particulier les décideurs au sein du gouvernement.
Presenter: Debazou Y. Yantio
Date: 16 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Workshop 3: Private sector evaluation
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) undertake interventions in developing countries through both the private and public sectors. MDB support to the public sector is still dominant, although private sector interventions have shown a steep growth over recent years. While public sector operations are often initiated by the MDBs in cooperation with national or local governments, private sector interventions involve corporate sponsors who control their project initiatives. The relationship of sponsors with the MDB is often long-term as the current client-oriented model and strategic intent of the two private sector-specialized institutions among the MDBs, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as well as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), indicate. The financial instruments to support the development of the private sector are mostly of a short to medium term nature. This workshop discusses the specificity and dynamics of private sector evaluation, thereby highlighting the methodological approaches and evaluation practices that are used by MDBs for this type of operations at the institutional and project levels.
The effectiveness of this universe of private sector interventions should not be judged by their financial return only. On the one hand, investment operations certainly entail a profitability angle, but the rationale for participation of the public sector in supporting them is rather based on their broader social returns. In other words, institutions intervening in this space do so with two sorts of bottom lines in mind: (i) financial and (ii) economic/social/environmental. For a view on the first, the market may suffice, for the combined effect, evaluation is indispensable.
The workshop will start with a presentation on methodologies used in private sector evaluation and compare them with public sector evaluation methodologies and practices. In this respect, more than 20 years of experience in developing good practice standards in the Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) will be presented. To make the workshop as interactive as possible, two case studies will be presented. The main themes of the case studies will be the evaluation of financial intermediaries and evaluating direct equity investments. Finally, as learning from experience is one of the main features of development evaluation, the workshop will discuss adaptive learning as an institutional strategy.
Presenter: Raghavan Narayanan
Date: 16 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Presenter:Fredrik Korfker
Timing: 16 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Workshop 4: Theory-based evaluation in practice
Interventions are theories and evaluation is the test. This well-known reference is indicative of an influential school of thought and practice in evaluation, often called theory-driven or theory-based evaluation. While having been around for more than four decades, over the last decade theory-based evaluation has received new impetus and has become part and parcel of the toolkit of program evaluators across the globe.
The past decade has also seen a dramatic increase in impact evaluation debates and practices. While theory-based evaluation has often been cast as an alternative to quantitative counterfactual-based impact evaluation, in practice the two can reinforce each other. At the same time, the scope for applying different expressions of theory-based evaluations is much broader than impact evaluation only. The workshop will address the following main themes:
1. What is theory-based evaluation and why is it important?
2. What are useful principles for reconstructing a program theory?
3. How can we apply theory-based evaluation in practice?
Learning outcome
After this course, participants have developed an initital (but sound) understanding of the role of theory in evaluation and how to apply theory-based evaluation in practice.
Learning modalities
- Short interactive lectures
- Group exercise and presentations on the basis of an empirical case
Course level: Beginning/intermediate
Presenter: Jos Vaessen
Date: 16 October 2017
Workshop 5: ¿El género+ se está quedando atrás en la medición de los ODS?
Este taller tendrá lugar en español.
La experiencia ha demostrado que empoderar a las mujeres contribuye a promover el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo de los países. Pese a los avances logrados en las últimas décadas, la desigualdad de género sigue siendo un obstáculo para la plena participación de las mujeres en la actividad económica, el desarrollo social y la toma de decisiones en el ámbito público. Para avanzar en el logro de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, es crucial superar la desigualdad y eliminar toda forma de discriminación basada en el género.
El enfoque de género ha estado presente al más alto nivel en la evaluación y medición de los ODS desde la adopción de la nueva agenda de desarrollo. En los últimos años, han aumentado los esfuerzos para definir indicadores y metas para medir el avance hacia los ODS con una perspectiva de género. Sin embargo, estos esfuerzos son todavía insuficientes.
Este taller pretende intercambiar reflexiones y prácticas y hacer una lectura crítica sobre los indicadores y metodologías que podrían contribuir a un uso más intensivo del enfoque de género en los procesos de evaluación y seguimiento de los ODS en los próximos años. Mediante una metodología participativa, se presentarán, entre otros contenidos, estrategias para la aplicación del enfoque de género en las políticas públicas y herramientas de evaluación con enfoque de género, con aplicaciones prácticas y casos reales.
Presenter: Alejandra Faúndez
Date: 16 October 2017
Workshop 6: Knowledge brokers game-based workshop
In a complex world, knowledge is needed to run effective public policies. However, the flow of knowledge between the experts that produce the knowledge, and its users, who are the decision-makers, is not a straightforward process.
A knowledge broker is a public professional acting as an intermediary, ensuring that the message from studies to decision-making gets across. Knowledge brokering helps decision-makers to be better equipped to create evidence-based policies that are better designed and will more successfully serve the citizens.
The training is designed as a one-day game-based session. Participants play the role of managers within their regional evaluation units. Their mission is to help different decision-makers in successfully implementing socio-economic projects.
Participants can learn six key knowledge brokering skills:
1. Identifying knowledge needs of policy actors
2. Acquiring credible studies
3. Combining results into policy arguments
4. Reaching users with appropriate dissemination strategies
5. Delivering research results at the right moment of decision-making cycle
6. Managing a unit and its network with limited resources
The simulation game is run in turns which are followed by detailed feedback and debriefing sessions grounded in latest empirical research on evidence used in decision-making.
Presenter: Tomasz Kupiec, Doctor of Economic Science - EGO-Evaluation for Government Organization, Poland
Date: 16 October 2017
Workshop 7:Establishing a National Evaluation System: Case of Kazakhstan / Создание национальной системы оценки: пример Казахстана (In Russian, with English translation)
В рамках этого семинара участники ознакомятся с историческими и административными предпосылками создания системы оценки эффективности деятельности государственных органов Казахстана.
Казахстанская система оценки действует уже более 7 лет, от трех государственных органов, оцененных в 2011 году, до более чем 40 органов, проходящих ежегодную оценку.
Системой разработан уникальный подход к методологии оценки. Более того, она создала новую культуру оценки в бюрократическом аппарате правительства. Система зарекомендовала себя как эффективный инструмент совершенствования системы государственного управления и стимулирования эффективной работы министерств и местных государственных органов. Например, до запуска Системы, в 2006 году граждане заполняли более 23 млн. запросов и жалоб о различным вопросам госуправления. В 2013 году количество жалоб снизилось до 10,8 млн., а в 2016 году – до 2,3 млн.
Семинар начнется с презентации опыта внедрения национальной системы оценки в Правительстве Республики Казахстан. Кроме того, будет презентован опыт стран региона, участвующих в Региональном хабе в сфере государственной службы в Астане. Семинар послужит диалоговой площадкой для обмена практическим опытом, инновациями и перспективами в разработке национальных систем оценки и способствует налаживанию партнерства между участниками.
Соорганизаторы: Правительство Республики Казахстан, Региональный хаб в сфере государственной службы в Астане
Within this workshop, participants will immerse into historical and administrative background of establishing a performance evaluation system for Kazakhstani government bodies. The Kazakhstani Evaluation System is on for more than 7 years, scaling its work from just 3 state bodies assessed in 2011 to more than 40 agencies going through the annual assessment now.
The System has developed its own unique approaches to methodology, moreover it launched a new culture of evaluation within the bureaucratic governmental apparatus. The System proved itself as an effective tool for improving governance and stimulating the ministries and municipal state bodies to perform better. For instance, before the launch of the System, in 2006 citizens used to fill over 23 mln requests and complaints against various governance issues. In 2013 number of complaints dropped to 10.8 mln, in 2016 – to 2.3 mln.
The workshop will start with a presentation on national evaluation system in the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It will also showcase the experience of countries of the region that participate in the Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana. The workshop will provide a dialogue platform for the exchange of practical experience, innovations and perspectives in elaborating national evaluation systems and facilitate networking and partnership building between participants.
Presenter:Aibatyr Zhumagulov,Vice-Minister of National Economy, Republic of Kazakhstan
Date: 17 October 2017
Presenter: Sabina Sadieva, Head of the Centre for State Body Efficiency Evaluation, JSC “Economic Research Institute”, Republic of Kazakhstan.
Date: 17 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Workshop 8: Outcome Harvesting —An evaluation approach for identifying and understanding development outcomes in complex circumstances
This workshop is designed for seasoned development evaluators and government officials responsible for commissioning and supervising evaluations.
Workshop content: Using exercises with a simulated case study, participants spend 60% of the workshop doing exercises in small groups as a means of working through the Outcome Harvesting steps:
1. Design the Outcome Harvest with key evaluative questions based on the principal uses of the primary users of the process and findings.
2. Review documentary material to draft potential outcome descriptions of who changed their behavior, how the intervention contributed and other relevant data such as the significance of the outcome.
3. Engage with human sources of information to complete outcome descriptions and formulate additional ones
4. Substantiate the veracity of select outcome descriptions with independent third parties and deepen understanding.
5. Analyze and interpret the outcome information to answer the evaluation questions.
6. Support the use of the Outcome Harvest findings.
Presenter: Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Date: 17 October 2017
Workshop 9: Tools for Conducting Evaluation System Diagnostics in Governments
Many evaluators highlight challenges in evaluation use. Improving evaluation utilization is a task that is often far larger than the individual evaluator, it is a systems issue. It is important for evaluation commissioners and managers to move towards systematic evaluation practice that meets the demands of the organization and increase utilization of evaluation findings.
Evaluation system diagnostics are helpful to (re)align evaluation practice with demands from across different political and organizational levels and thereby contribute to improving the utilization and relevance of evaluations. This workshop presents a set of diagnostic tools and concepts that seek to identify different demands for evaluation.
This workshop introduces a diagnostic toolset that has been developed through eleven analytical processes of government evaluation systems in Africa, application in international NGOs and in evaluation systems development in the UK Government. These tools are designed to answer three questions:
(i) What is value of evaluation in the context?
(ii) What demands emerge from different stakeholders?
(iii) What is the relevance of the current evaluation systems in responding to these demands?
Answers to these questions are of high importance for the development of evaluation systems as they inform refinement of the political and technical aspects of the evaluation system, namely: policy, incentives, procurement, competencies and quality assurance mechanisms.
The workshop presents a range of tools and concepts that can identify new opportunities for evaluation. In considering the three questions above, participants will engage with:
surveys that have been developed that seek to understand different potential uses of evaluations;
additional tools that aid the identification of underlying problems, such as the Five Whys Analysis;
application of organizational culture concepts to understand latent demand and some useful political economy frameworks.
Presenter: Stephen Porter
Date: 17 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Presenter:Haneen Malallah
Timing: 17 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Presenter:Emma Fawcett
Timing: 17 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Workshop 10: Building better from the beginning: developing theories of change in the context of climate change and ensuring quality at entry for climate change and environment programmes
The workshop will focus on providing the rationale for why it’s especially important to think about building for evidence, right from the beginning and why environment and climate change programmes have special challenges that make it more important to think about this, right from the beginning. The first challenge in this process is recognizing how good data and designs can help inform good policy and strategy for climate change and environment programmes. The second challenge is recognizing where theories of change can play a critical role in helping not just with project/program design but also in evaluability. The third is understanding that in climate change and environment related programmes, thinking about the ‘last mile’ is especially critical: Cook stoves may be excellently well designed and the supply chain may have been set up very well but what are the factors that lead to households ‘adopting’ new and efficient cook stoves? What are we learning from other sectors and what can we do to close this last mile gap? The workshop will close with discussing biases that may enter in our assessments of how effective programs have been, unless these are well thought out.
Presenter: Jyotsna Puri, Ph.D.
Date: 17 October 2017
Activity Venue: TBD
Workshop 11: Using Technology to Enhance Applied Research & Evaluation
This workshop will focus on a range of new technological tools and examine how they can be used to improve applied research and program evaluations. Specifically, we will explore the application of free or inexpensive software to engage clients and a range of stakeholders, collect research and evaluation data, formulate and prioritize research and evaluation questions, express and assess logic models and theories of change, track program implementation, provide continuous improvement feedback, determine program outcomes/impact, and to present data and findings. Participants will be given information on how to access tools such as Crowdsourcing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), data visualization, and interactive conceptual framing software to improve the quality of their applied research and evaluation projects.
Presenter: Tarek Azzam
Date: 17 October 2017
Workshop 12: Evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals within a “No one left behind” lens through equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations
The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development puts forward “a plan for action for people, planet and prosperity” and “seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom” through strategic partnerships. It includes a vision and principles, a results framework of global SDGs, a framework for means of implementation and follow-up and review mechanism.
This means evaluation should play a crucial role to support effective and efficient SDG implementation. Evaluation will offer evidence-based learning on how policies and programmes delivered results and what needs to be done differently. The main principle of the 2030 Agenda is that no one should be left behind. The follow-up and review mechanisms also call for inclusiveness, participation and ownership. This is why equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation is needed. This transformative kind of evaluation can help countries to identify structural causes of inequalities through deeper analysis of power relationship, social norms and cultural beliefs. Integrating equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations will provide strong evidence to ensure national voluntary reviews of SDGs are leaving no one behind.
The purpose of this one day workshop is 1) to provide guidance on how to integrate an equity-focused and gender equality approach to national evaluation systems generally and 2) promote the use of equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations to inform the national reviews of SDGs.
Presenter: Mona Selim, Isabel Suarez, Messay Tassew and Florencia Tateossian, UN Women
Date: 17 October 2017
Workshop 13: Impact evaluation: scope and limits in the real world
It is often claimed that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for impact evaluation are the gold standard of evaluation, because they meet scientific standards for causal inference. However, in the world of evaluation practice as well as scholarly debate, interrelated terms like result, evidence and impact are controversial concepts whose meaning is often challenged and debated by groups in different epistemological and methodological traditions. Although few would deny the relevance of credibly identifying the development impact of policies and programs and the need to shift focus on results, there is great variation and discussion around what constitutes rigorous evidence of impact and what type of methodological strategies can and should be pursued.
This workshop presents a review of the theoretical and methodological foundations of experimental (and quasi-experimental, by extension) impact evaluation in order to clarify the purposes, logic and limitations of these evaluation strategies, and offer a critical reflection on the scope and limits of impact evaluation.
For the purposes of this workshop, a pluralist perspective will be adopted in order to discuss three relevant dimensions of this debate: 1) methodological diversity and complementarity, 2) ethical and logistical considerations; 3) decision-making value of impact evaluation.
Presenter: Claudia Maldonado
Date: 17 October 2017
Angela Bester
Angela Bester is an evaluation practitioner who has managed, led and conducted evaluations for the South African Government and the United Nations, as well as for international development agencies. Prior to her current role, Angela served as Director-General: Office of the Public Service Commission in South Africa where she established the capacity of the Office to carry out its Constitutional mandate to evaluate public administration. Angela has a keen interest in developing national evaluation capacities and served on the Board of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association.
Ricardo Wilson-Grau
President of Ricardo Wilson-Grau Consultoria em Gestão Empresarial Ltda, he resides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but works internationally. Since 2003, he has evaluated over fifty international social change networks, European and North American development funders and civil society organisations. With forty co-evaluators, he developed the “Outcome Harvesting” that now has been used to collect and make sense of thousands of outcomes of over four hundred NGOs, CBOs, government agencies, multilaterals, research institutes and networks in 143 countries around the world. He has led Outcome Harvesting workshops at EES 2014 and 2016, ReLAC 2015 and AfrEA 2017.
Stephen Porter
Stephen Porter is currently the Director for the Learning, Effectiveness and Accountability Department at Oxfam America. Stephen has a range of experience in development practice, including academic, donor and experience applying a rights-based approach to evaluation. Previously, Stephen was Evaluation Advisor for Market Development at the UK Department for International Development and was the Director of the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Anglophone Africa at the University of Witwatersrand. He holds an MPhil in Public Policy from the University of Cape Town. Stephen has eleven journal and book chapters published on the topic of evaluation systems development.
Raghavan Narayanan
Raghavan has more than 18 years of operational experiences spanning investment financing, asset management and financial advisory services and brings unique private sector development insights to evaluation sciences. At the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), he specializes in real sector evaluations and strategic initiatives. Recently, he has been tasked with managing IEG’s flagship reports and thematic evaluations on World Bank Group private capital mobilization activities. Before joining the World Bank Group, Raghavan was an economist and policy advisor for the extractives industry and has rotated through various positions in venture capital, investment banking and private equity investment funds. He holds an MBA from Georgetown University (U.S.), a B.Eng. from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and has received training at Carleton University (Canada) on monitoring and evaluation.
Fredrik Korfker
Fredrik is an international development finance, banking and evaluation professional with 45 years of experience gained in commercial banks, development finance corporations and multilateral development banks. His more than 20 years of evaluation experience has been gained since 1996 through leading the Evaluation Department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. After retirement in January 2011 he did mainly private sector-related evaluation consultancy assignments for the UNDP, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Belgian Government, the Asian Development Bank, the Dutch Government and IFAD. In a volunteering capacity, he leads the thematic working group on private-sector evaluation of the European Evaluation Society. Fredrik holds a BA equivalent of business administration from Nijenrode University (former NOIB), Breukelen, The Netherlands, and a Master of Economics from the Erasmus University (former NEH) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Debazou Y. Yantio
Debazou Y. Yantio, Expert en politique et évaluation du développement, Facilité africaine de soutien juridique (ALSF), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Depuis 1994, M. Yantio a participé ou dirigé des missions liées à l’évaluation de programme dans 19 pays en Afrique, 6 en Europe, 3 en Asie et 3 en Amérique du Nord. Il a fourni ses services de consultant en évaluation aux agences
du système des Nations Unies, aux institutions multilatérales de développement, aux gouvernements locaux, aux organisations non gouvernementales, y compris au niveau communautaire à la base. Il est fondateur et ancien président de l’Association camerounaise de l’évaluation du développement (CaDEA). Son intérêt professionnel porte sur l’évaluation de l’impact de l’assistance juridique pour les partenariats public-privé (PPP) en faveur des pays en développement, l’établissement de passerelles entre l’évaluation et la pratique de la politique de développement, et le renforcement des capacités évaluatives nationales en Afrique.
Emma Fawcett
Emma Fawcett is an Evaluation, Learning and Effectiveness Advisor at Oxfam America, where she supports MEL work within inclusive value chains, country-led evaluations on women’s economic empowerment, and gender disaggregated analysis of datasets from recently completed impact evaluations. Prior to joining Oxfam, she was a a Program Manager at the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, a Professorial Lecturer at American University, and a Research Fellow at the Inter-American Development Bank. She has conducted policy-oriented development research and evaluations on a range of topics, including economic and private sector development. Emma holds a PhD in international relations from American University.
Haneen Malallah
Haneen Malallah has worked extensively in the social sector in managerial, consulting, and advisory capacities in the United States as well as entities operating nationally in Jordan and Oman. She is currently serving as the Knowledge, Learning, and Accountability Advisor at Oxfam America. Ms. Malallah has been an adjunct faculty at the SIT Graduate Institute as well as Marylhurst University. Ms. Malallah holds an MS in Management, with a focus on Development Management. She received a Fulbright Scholarship (2005 – 2007) and the King Hussein Peace Scholarship (1999).
Jyotsna Puri
Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo) is currently the Head of the Independent Evaluation Unit of the Green Climate Fund. She is also adjunct associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York. Dr. Puri’s areas of work include policy impact analysis on poverty reduction, environment, agriculture, health and climate change, etc. She has more than 22 years of experience in policy research and development evaluation at several organizations including the World Bank, Columbia University and the UN. Also, she has led evaluation-related work for UNDP, UNICEF, GEF and the MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Puri also has extensive policy experience and provides advice on evidence-based climate change and environmental policy, evidence-based advocacy for behaviour change, community-based engagements for improving health, and methods for evaluating humanitarian action. Her expertise is using mixed methods that use rigorous quantitative methods informed by high quality qualitative approaches. Dr. Puri’s academic qualifications include a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Resource Economics and a Masters in Development Economics.
Tarek Azzam
Tarek Azzam, PhD, is Director of The Evaluators’ Institute and Associate Professor at the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University. Azzam’s research focuses on developing new methods suited for real world evaluations. These methods attempt to address some of the logistical, political, and technical challenges that evaluators commonly face in practice. His work aims to improve the rigor and credibility of evaluations and increase its potential impact on programs and policies. Azzam has also been involved in multiple projects that have included the evaluation of student retention programs at the university level, Science Technology Engineering Math education programs, children’s health programs, and international development efforts for the Rockefeller and Packard Foundations.
Jos Vaessen
Jos Vaessen (Ph.D. Maastricht University) is adviser on evaluation methods at the Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group. Since 1998 he has been involved in evaluation research activities, first as an academic and consultant to bilateral and multilateral development organizations and from 2011 to 2015 as an evaluation manager at UNESCO. Jos firmly believes in a strong link between research and practice. His ongoing involvement in some evaluation-related research and teaching activities as honorary lecturer at Maastricht University contributes to the necessary cross-fertilization between these two domains. Jos has been author of several internationally peer-reviewed publications, including three books. He regularly serves on reference groups of evaluations for different institutions and is a member of the Board of the European Evaluation Society.
Alejandra Faúndez
Trabajadora Social y Magíster en Gestión y Políticas Públicas de la Universidad de Chile. Por más de 20 años ha sido consultora y evaluadora de programas públicos nacionales e internacionales encargados por el UNFPA, ONU Mujeres, UNICEF, PNUD, BID, UNESCO, SEGIB, AECID, MERCOSUR, PLAN International, OEA, CLEAR y CEPAL. Su especialidad son los temas de políticas públicas inclusivas, indicadores sociales y enfoque de igualdad de género. En su experiencia docente, ha facilitado numerosos talleres y cursos en toda América Latina.
Ha sido Coordinadora de docencia y extensión de FLACSO-Chile, del Programa de entrenamiento en Evaluación del Staff College de Naciones Unidas, de la Oficina de Evaluación de ONU Mujeres de Nueva York; del Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (INDES-BID) y de la iniciativa de EVALPARTNERS y ReLAC.
Es miembro del grupo de expertas regionales del PNUD en transversalización del enfoque de igualdad de género y de la Red Latinoamericana de Evaluación (ReLAC). Ha escrito numerosas publicaciones como artículos, libros y documentos en las materias de su especialidad. Actualmente es Directora para América Latina de la Consultora Inclusión y Equidad.
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Claudia Maldonado
Professor-Researcher at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico. She holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and a Master´s Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University. Her research focuses on program evaluation, capacity-building in evaluation, the politics of evidence-based policy and comparative public policy. In the last decade, she has taught graduate and undergraduate course in program evaluation and trained public servants, academics, practitioners and civil society leaders in program evaluation and the logic of evidence-based public policy in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Panama and Uruguay. She was the founding Director of the CLEAR Center for Latin America and the Caribbean, coordinates the Center´s Diploma on Public Policy and Evaluation since 2012 and has performed social program evaluations since 1998. She has advised government agencies and social organizations on M&E both nationally and internationally. She is the author and coordinator of several publications about the use of evaluation (Cejudo & Maldonado 2011); the development strategies of Brazil and Mexico in comparative perspective (Magaldi & Maldonado 2014); the emergence of evaluation as a discipline (Maldonado & Pérez Yarahuán 2015) and the state of the art of national evaluation systems in Latin America (Pérez-Yarahuán & Maldonado 2016), among others.
Tomasz Kupiec
Doctor of economic science at Kozminski University, Warsaw, Tomasz has been working on evaluations since 2007 as a manager of regional evaluation unit in Silesia, Poland and as an independent evaluator of public policies since 2010. He is the author of a number of publications on evaluation use determinants, and shaping and performance of evaluation systems. Together with Karol Olejniczak he is developing the concept of knowledge brokering as a theoretical basis for evaluation units in public organizations.
Aibatyr Zhumagulov
Mr. Aibatyr Zhumagulov, Vice-Minister of National Economy, Republic of Kazakhstan. Mr. Zhumagulov started his professional career in the banking area in the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Hereafter, apart from working in banking and investment areas, he worked in Ministry of Industry and New Technology of RK in capacity of Director of Department for key branches. He has held position of Managing Director of JSC “Baiterek National Management Holding” and headed Board of Directors of JSC “Export – credit insurance corporation KazExportGarant” and also was a member of Board of Directors of JSC “Kazyna Capital Management”, JSC “Kazakhstani Fund of Guaranteeing Credits on mortgage”, JSC “National Agency for technological development” and “House Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan” JSC.
Sabina Sadieva
Head of the Centre for State Body Efficiency Evaluation, JSC “Economic Research Institute”, Republic of Kazakhstan. Her professional experience includes leading Change Management unit in the business transformation program of the Kazpost company, working for the Center of Strategic Research and Analysis of the Presidential Office, also conducting a number of Monitoring & Evaluation projects in the non-governmental sector.