National Capacity Development Conference, Morocco

Agenda and Documents

Agenda

Day 1 : Tuesday 15 December 2009

08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome Address Mr. Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, President, Moroccan National Observatory of Human Development Ms. Saraswathi Menon, Director, UNDP Evaluation Office Ms. Alia Al-Dali, Resident Representative a.i., UNDP-Morocco
Theme 1: Current evaluation practices of public programmes at the national level: governance, independence and credibility
09:30 - 10:00 Hrs	Chairperson: Mr. Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission, India Opening Remarks by the Chairperson Brief issues paper presentation Angela Bester, Director: Deloitte & Touche, South Africa
10:00 - 11:00 Hrs	Individual presentations by participants
	Morocco	Moroccan National Observatory of Human Development
	Costa Rica	Juan Manuel Cordero González, Vice-Ministro de Desarrollo Social
	Mauritania	Ould Khattar Dah, Chef du Service des Politiques Sectorielles, MAED
	South Africa	Julie Charmaine , Regional Director of the Western Cape Public Service Commission
	Rapporteur: Ms. Charmaine Julie, Regional Director of the Western Cape Public Service Commission (to be confirmed) Oscar Garcia, Evaluation Advisor, UNDP Evaluation Office
11:00 - 11.20 Hrs	TEA / COFFEE BREAK
11.20 - 12.30 Hrs	Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks by Chair
12:30 -14:00 Hrs	LUNCH
Theme 2: Evaluation quality and existing capacities at national and regional level: national evaluation practitioners, research institutions, evaluation associations and networks
14:00 - 14:30	Chairperson: Mr. Tony Aidoo Head, Policy Evaluation & Oversight Unit, Office of the President, Ghana Opening Remarks by Chair Brief issues paper presentation Alexey Kuzmin, President, Process Consulting Company, Russia.
14:30 - 15:00	Individual presentations by participants
	Brazil	Joana Mostafa, Member of the Research Institute of Applied Economics (IPEA) of the Goverment of Brazil
	Uganda	Margaret Kakande, Head Budget Monitoring and Accountability Unit, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
	RELAC Latin American Network of Evaluation	Pablo Rodríguez, Executive Committe
	Niger	Seydou Yayé, Director General, Programme Evaluation and Development, Ministry of Economy and Finance
	Rapporteur: M. Joseph Jonas Avrilus, Coordinator, Unit of Coordination and Programming, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Haiti Alexandra Chambel, Evaluation Specialist, UNDP Evaluation Office
15:00 - 15:20	TEA / COFFEE BREAK
15:20 - 16:30	Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks by Chair
16:30 - 18:00	Open Space: Structured time available for informal exchanges and discussion between the participants
20:00	Dinner

Day 2 : Wednesday 16 December 2009

09:00 - 09:30 Hrs

Synthesis of Day One

Theme 3: Supporting the demand for evaluation as an instrument of accountability: who are the key actors?

09:30 - 10:00

Chairperson: Ms. Carla Morales, Vice Minister, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy, Costa Rica

Opening Remarks by Chair

Brief issues paper presentation
Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall, President of the International Organization on Evaluation

10.00 - 11:00

Individual presentations by participants

Rwanda

Bernabe Sebagabo Director of Planning Policies and Capacity Building

Colombia

Diego Dorado, Director of Evaluation of Public Policies, Sinergia, Department of Planning

PREVAL Monitoring and Evaluation for Rural Development

Emma Rotondo, Executive Director

Rapporteur:

Mr. Seydou Yaye. Director General of Evaluation of Programmes and Development, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Niger

Juha Uitto, Deputy Director, UNDP Evaluation Office

11:00 - 11.20

TEA / COFFEE BREAK

11.20 - 12.30

Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks by Chair

12:30 -14:00

LUNCH

Theme 4: Towards an enabling environment for evaluation capacity at the national level: what type of support is needed?

14:00 - 14:30

Chairperson: Mr. Eric Shitindi, Deputy Permanent Secretary, President's Office - Public Service Management, Tanzania

Opening Remarks by Chair

Brief issues paper presentation

Osvaldo Feinstein, consultant former Advisor and Manager at the World Bank Evaluation Department and Senior Evaluator at IFAD

14:30 - 15:00

Individual presentations by participants

Benin

Aristide DJIDJOHO, Coordinator of the office of evaluation of public policies, Ministry of Forecasting, Development and Evaluation of Public Policies

Sri Lanka

Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy, Director General, Ministry of Finance & Planning: Department of Foreign Affairs and Budget Monitoring

Guatemala

Fernando Sánchez, Coordinador General Secretaria de Planificación y Programación

Tajikistan

Mr. Rahmonov Abdughaffor, Deputy Chairman, State Committee on Aid Coordination and Investment Promotion

Rapporteur:

Mr. Juan Manuel Cordero, Vice Minister, Ministry of Social Development,
Costa Rica

Fabrizio Felloni, Evaluation Specialist, UNDP Evaluation Office

15:00 - 15:20

TEA / COFFEE BREAK

15:20 - 16.30

Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks by Chair

16:30 - 18:00

Open Space: Structured time available for informal exchanges and discussion between the participants

Day 3 : Thursday Thursday 17 December 2009

Roundtable discussion: Towards a longer-term initiative on national evaluation capacity. What is the way forward?
09:00 11:00	Chairpersons report back to the roundtable discussion Rapporteurs: Oscar Garcia, Evaluation Advisor, Alexandra Chambel, Evaluation Specialist, UNDP Evaluation Office
11:00 - 11.15	TEA / COFFEE BREAK
11.30 - 12.30	Roundtable on emerging conclusions
12:30 - 13:00	Concluding Remarks	Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah President Moroccan National Observatory of Human Development Saraswathi Menon Director of UNDP Evaluation Office
	Rapporteur: Professor Sonia Ospina NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
13:00 -14:30	LUNCH
14:30	END OF CONFERENCE