Module 14 National Evaluation Capacity Building for EFGR Technical Assistance on Evaluating SDGs: Leave No One Behind EvalGender+ Network together with UN Women, UNEG and EvalPartners

Evaluation Capacity of: Public sector institutions VOPE Individual evaluators Capacity of parliamentarians to demand quality evaluations.

Public sector

Key aspects for Public sector Political will Availability of guidelines Technical expertise to conduct and manage evaluations. Availability of resources for evaluations Ability to implement recommendations

Strengthen Enabling Environments for Evaluation at National Level USE CREATE Evaluation policies and systems Independent Executive Evaluation Units National Data Management Systems Expand partnerships with parliamentarians, policy makers, supreme audit Evaluation Capacity Development Advocacy Policy Development Communication Repositories and Knowledge Management Open Data Access

Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluations (VOPEs)

Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation What’s a VOPE? Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation I.e. formal associations or societies; informal networks / communities of practice … whether at sub-national, national, regional or international level; open to a wide variety of members (producers & consumers of evaluation)

1981 Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Societe canadienne d'evaluation (SCE)

Cumulative number of VOPEs in existence, by year (only including those reporting year of formation)

Numbers of VOPEs in IOCE database Countries in which we have some VOPE contact information: 142 Number of national VOPEs heard of: 181 Number of countries with verified VOPEs: 110 Number of national VOPEs verified: 128 Sub-national VOPEs: 9 Regional VOPEs: 19 International VOPEs: 13 Total Verified VOPEs : 170

Institutionalising the VOPE Setting up a VOPE Institutionalising the VOPE Carrying out VOPE work

Individual evaluators

Develop Individual Evaluator Capacities Promote Evaluation Capacity Development Expand offerings: diplomas, Bachelors, Masters, PhDs Accredit courses/ institutions Certify Continuous Professional Development Courses Build Career Pathways and Develop Young/Emerging Evaluators Explore Professionalization Evaluator Certification Evaluator Credentials Develop National Competencies in tune with International Standards/ Competencies Frameworks

Global Partnership

EvalPartners Initiative To promote collaboration among evaluation organizations (including VOPEs + many other organizations) to strengthen Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD)… including addressing the evaluation environment, i.e. policies, systems, demand for and use of evaluations.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) + Innovation Challenge (IC) Projects Total of 58 projects funded during 2013 - 2015 Involving a total of 53 national and 11 regional VOPEs Average grants $5,000 per P2P project; $15,000 for IC Total grants $500,000 New round of grants to be launched in mid- 2016

Examples of P2P Projects Malaysia Evaluation Society (MES) helping Cambodian Evaluation Society (CamES) formalize their VOPE Macedonian Evaluation Network (MEN) + Romanian Society of Evaluators (RoSE) exchanging experiences Egyptian Research & Evaluation Network (EREN) with EvalMENA integrating evaluation in legislative bodies Palestinian Evaluation Association (PEA) + Jordan Development Evaluation Association (EvalJordan) setting up evaluation database

Books published

Networks launched EvalSDGs EvalYouth EvalGender+ EvalIndigeneous Professionalization State of Evaluation Parliamentarians’ Forum

Toolkits and e-learning Toolkit to help VOPEs advocate for enhanced national evaluation policies Toolkit for VOPE institutional capacity development E-learning courses via the www.MyMandE/EvalPartners website

Resources Link to the EvalAgenda2020 http://mymande.org/evalyear/shaping_the_2016_2020_ global_evaluation_agenda EvalPartners http://www.mymande.org/evalpartners IOCE Forum http://forum.ioce.net/

Thank you for attention For more information, please contact: Marco Segone, Director, Independent Evaluation Office -UN Women, Co-chair - EvalGender+, Chair – United Nations Evaluation Group marco.segone@unwomen.org Florencia Tateossian, Evaluation Specialist – UN Women florencia.tateossian@unwomen.org Asela Kalugampitiya, EvalPartners Executive Coordinator, coordinator@evalpartners.org