The role of the UN in fostering national ownership and capacities in evaluation Live Webinar 22nd June 2010 DevInfo 1

This series of webinars are based on the book published by UNICEF in partnership with key international institutions Authors: 40 global evaluation leaders Partnership: UNICEF, WB, UNDP, WFP, UNIFEM, IDEAS, IOCE, DevInfo

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2010 Monthly webinars: 4 Michael Quinn Patton Marco Segone Future trends in evaluation. Moving from policies to results by developing national capacities for country-led monitoring and evaluation systems 1st July 2010 Caroline Heider Craig Russon Evaluating policies and their results The role of policy analysis in over-coming the implementation challenge September 2010 Belen Sanz Human Rights and gender in evaluation October 2010 Jean Quesnel Linda G. Morra Imas The professionalization of evaluation Professionalizing development evaluators. Travelling the road to results November 2010 Oscar A. Garcia Angela Bester Joint evaluation of the role and contribution of the UN system in South Africa. Lessons learned December 2010 4

2011 Monthly webinars: Michael Bamberger Institutionalizing impact evaluation. A key element in strengthening country-led monitoring and evaluation systems January 2011 Hallie Preskill Alexey Kuzmin Exploring effective strategies for facilitating evaluation capacity development Use of evaluation training in evaluation capacity building February 2011 Michael Quinn Patton Utilization-focused evaluations March 2011 David Fetterman Rita O’Sullivan (TBC) Empowerment evaluation Collaborative evaluation. Creating environments to engage stakeholders in evaluation April 2011 Indran Naidoo The monitoring and evaluation in South Africa. Many purposes, multiple system May 2011 Manuel Fernando Castro Diego Dorado (TBC) Building a results-based management and evaluation system in Colombia June 2011 Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy National monitoring and evaluation system in Sri Lanka. Experiences, good practices, challenges and the way forward July 2011 David Rider Smith Policies, institutions and personalities. Lessons from Uganda’s experience in monitoring and evaluation September 2011

The recording of the previous webinars are available at www. mymande The recording of the previous webinars are available at www.mymande.org

Agenda 9h35 – 9h50 Saraswathi Menon, Director, Evaluations Office, UNDP, and Chair, UNEG 9h50 – 10h05 Finbar O’Brien, Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF 10h05 – 10h25 Questions and Answers 10h25 – 10h30 Wrap-up

Keynote speakers MENON, Saraswathi is currently the Director of the Evaluation Office in the United Nations Development Programme and the elected Chair of the United Nations Evaluations Group that brings together the heads of evaluation of all UN organizations. 8

Keynote speakers O’BRIEN, Finbar is Director of Evaluation at UNICEF. He was formerly the Head of Evaluation and Audit with the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ireland and also served as Chair of the DAC Evaluation Network. 9

Questions and Answers 1 3 2 10

The discussion goes on at www.mymande.org

Next webinar, July 1st, same time Michael Quinn Patton on “Future trends in evaluation” Marco Segone on “Developing national capacities for country-led monitoring and evaluation systems ” 12