Evaluation community news

The following is a list of evaluation events, conferences, workshops and training opportunities offered by members of the evaluation community.

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Upcoming events

Date

UNICEF and partners launch new series of live webinars on "Equity-focused evaluations"

Venue: your personal computer

This new series of webinars will address the challenges and opportunities in evaluating the effects of policies, programmes and projects to enhance equitable development 
results, with a special focus on the effects to the most excluded, marginalized and deprived groups.

For more information: http://mymande.org/index.php?q=equity_focused_evaluation&x=cl

 

 

Starting 6 September 2011

Meeting of  the DAC Evaluation Network (for members)

Venue: OECD, Paris, France

8-9 February 2012

1st European Environmental Evaluators Network Forum

Venue: Leuven, Belgium

For more information: www.environmentalevaluators.net/europe/

9-10 February 2012

Evaluating Budget Support: a New Approach to Show Results Workshop

Venue: Brussels, Belgium

21-22 March 2012

Expert seminar on "Developmental Evaluation"

Venue: Wageningen, the Netherlands

Dr. Michael Quin Patton will discuss the developmental evaluation framework as detailed in his book ‘Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use’.

 

 

22 March 2012

UKES 2012 Annual Evaluation Conference: Evaluation for Results - What counts? Who stands to gain?

Venue: Birmingham, United Kingdom

 

16 March 2012

AFD Conference "Evaluation and its Discontents: Do we learn from experience in development?"

Venue: Paris, France

View the program  Register

26 March 2012

Case Studies in Development Evaluation: Validity, Generalisation and Learning

Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark

The Organising Committee of the International Workshop is seeking abstracts that address theoretical/methodological challenges as well as more practical experiences when using case studies in learning-oriented development evaluations.

 

 

21-23 May 2012

International Conference on The Future of Evaluation in Modern Societies

Venue: Saarland University, Germany

Learn more

 

14-15 June 2012

10th Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society

http://www.europeanevaluation.org/home.htm

Venue: Helsinki, Finland

Interested in submiting a paper for this conference? The deadline to do so is 15 March 2012. http://www.ees2012.org/

3-5 October 2012


Past events

 

 Training opportunities

CLEAR Course on Impact Evaluation: How to Design, Manage, and Conduct Impact Evaluations

Venue: Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center, Shanghai, China

The course covers commonly used econometric and statistical methods to evaluate the impacts of social and other programs in developing countries. Learn more

6-16 March 2012

Course on Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of food and nutrition security

Venue: Wageningen, the Netherlands

The course emphasises the need for careful selection on indicators in designing information support systems at various administrative levels and the scientific rigour required for analysis and interpretation of data collected for policy making.

4-22 June  2012    

 

 

Vacancies

January 2012

The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock of Afghanistan is recruiting internationally for an M&E position.  For more information, please contact Javid Ahmad Qaem, Project Director (IAIDS): javid.qaem@mail.gov.af                                  

 

Development jobs websites

Aid Workers Network

This website has links to a number of websites useful in finding development assistance jobs, or recruiting personnel for such jobs.

American Evaluation Association

The Job Bank provides a free service for those seeking and those offering evaluation jobs (donations are requested to help defray the costs of the service.) The site is specifically used for the annual AEA evaluation conference.

Communication Initiative

A listing of open posts in development and communication organisations.

Devex

A leading global membership organization serving firms, non-profit organizations, and individual professionals working in the international development market.

Eldis Jobs

Job posting service free to any development related organisations.

Evaluation Group of the World Bank Institute (WBIEG)

WBIEG's current vacancies & consultant database

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