Government Conference Centre 2 Rideau Street Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

 Conference team  Financial support from: EC, Ag Can, INAC, Parks, PWGSC, Public Health  Meeting facility and logistics  Agenda – ◦ Variety of presentation styles with interactive dialogue ◦ Networking – breaks, closing reception, dinner 2

 Mission: To enable the conduct of more effective environmental program evaluations and analyses that inform management decisions to foster positive environmental results  Extending the building to Canada the network of environmental evaluators started 5 years ago in United States (yearly events in June in Washington)  Third Canadian Forum (Inaugural in 2008)  Objective of this event: To extend the network of individuals interested to actively participate in and profit from the environmental evaluators network 3

 President Obama’s 2009 inaugural speech:  “…The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works…”  Canada’s Office of the Auditor General in its Fall 2009 report on Evaluating the Effectiveness of Programs:  “…effectiveness evaluations can aid their decision- making by providing objective and reliable information that helps identify programs that are working as intended; those that are no longer needed and those …that could be replaced…” 4

 Bill Gates in an 2010 interview said:  “But I put the evaluation system way ahead of all those other things we should also do, and our foundation is funding pilot programs in that area.” 5

 Individuals in the fields of natural resource conservation and environmental management increasingly need to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of projects and programs, particularly in terms of environmental outcomes.  By tapping multiple disciplines, we seek to improve the field of environmental evaluation by fostering partnerships where we can share knowledge on innovative approaches and learn more systematically from our collective experiences.  Intent to connect the spectrum of decision-makers, program managers, social and physical scientists, and practionners. 6

 EEN Logic model – refined 2009  EEN Established 5 year goals for network  Extend the network by launching regional nodes of activity - EEN [Canada] is the first new organizational partner to the two founding members EPA, and NFWF. Now new nodes are planned for Europe, Mexico/Latin America and Hawaii/Pacific Islands. 7

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 Field of environmental evaluation is expanded and strengthened  Improve environmental community’s capacity to achieve its goals  Environmental evaluation is used by most policy-makers to make informed decisions 9

 Consistently high quality environmental evaluation  Environmental evaluation informs management decisions  Evaluation culture established 10

 Evaluators and Evaluation Community  Environmental Organizations (staff, managers, leadership)  Academics/ Universities  Policy Makers  Funders (public and private) 11

 2008 – Decision-making and “on the ground delivery”  Tools used in environmental evaluation  Sharing experiences and practices 12