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

2. 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.  

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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
Face-to-face meetings of national VOPEs leaders and activists from the same region are reinforcing collaborative activities and empower participants.

6. 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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