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

2. 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

3. Available for free download at www.mymande.org

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Questions and Answers 1 3 2 10

11. The discussion goes on at www.mymande.org

12. 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