Building and Managing Effective National VOPEs in the Eurasian Region Presentation delivered by Alexey Kuzmin, Moscow, Russia August 4, 2016

June 1, 2015 The Eurasian Alliance of National Evaluation Associations was formed to support professionalization of evaluation in the countries of the Eurasian region through development of national evaluation associations. The Alliance founding members are:  Armenian Monitoring and Evaluation Association Association of Specialists in Program and Policy Evaluation (Russia) Monitoring and Evaluation Community of Practice of the Republic of Tajikistan National Monitoring and Evaluation Network of the Kyrgyz Republic The Evaluators Network in Kazakhstan Ukrainian Evaluation Association The core priority area for the Alliance is strengthening and increasing sustainability of national evaluation associations.  

P2P Project: main stages REFLECT Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats DESIGN Training program for THE EURASIAN VOPE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ORGANIZE Participants, logistics LEARN & PLAN School and strategic planning ACT Follow-up activities

Results achieved during and after the project SWOT analysis – useful for national VOPEs VOPE leaders got to better know each other New learning Empowerment Strategy for the Eurasian Alliance Organizational systems for the Eurasian Alliance

Lessons learned: what worked well VOPE leaders have a lot to share and to learn from each other in the terms of how to create and run an effective VOPE. VOPEs are able to prepare and implement a very effective training program adjusted to their own needs. IOCE and its partner organizations developed an extremely useful resource that can help develop an interesting training program: VOPE Institutional Capacity Toolkit http://vopetoolkit.ioce.net/en/page/about-toolkit Face-to-face meetings of national VOPEs leaders and activists from the same region are reinforcing collaborative activities and empower participants.

Lessons learned: what could work differently Allow more time for action planning by the Coordination Council Follow-up activities: meeting the deadlines Life will show what’s real

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