1. Risto ivanov , PhD, CMC®, PMP Project manager
     
Presentation of Project : BEST- Profy
Best practice exchange of evaluation standards towards professionalization -
Moving Forward with the Global Evaluation Agenda 
IOCE Information Session
Webinar 4th of August 2016
Risto ivanov , PhD, CMC®, PMP
Project manager

2. Organization name/ Abbreviation
Partners
Organization name/ Abbreviation
Status
Country
MCA 2000/Macedonian Evaluator Network
VOPE
MACEDONIA
Department for monitoring and evaluation in Macedonian Government
Government body
Montenegro Evaluation Network
MONTENEGRO
Western Balkan Evaluator network
VOPE NETWORK
SLOVENIA
Evaluation Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina
BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA

3. Long term Goals
Meeting with Ministry of economy Macedonia
The Project overall goal is to better enabling environment through cooperation on regional level and development of WBEN evaluation standards for profession evaluator.
First Level cooperation between VOPEs and national evaluation bodies to assess existing practice and to identify the good practice on national level.
Second level of cooperation will be among four VOPEs- project partners to discuss and accept common evaluation standards as credentials in strengthening VOPEs institutional capacities and professionalization of individual evaluators
Regional meeting WBEN –Presentation of VOPEs

4. BEST profy objectives, activities and outputs
To identify and select the best-good practices in evaluation from Western Balkan countries
Activity 1 :Criteria for identification best practices: Output: template Submission form
Act 2 :Invitation for cooperation and submission of best practice Op: 35 submitted good practices
Act 3: Organization of four promotional events : 60 organizations and 150 participants
Act 4 Preparation and printing of best practices brochure in Serbian- Croatian – All outputs included men-evlautors.weebly.com
To discuss and establish the high level of evaluation standards by WBEN
Act 1: 1st Regional Conference for policy evaluation in WB- 70 participants,( 50% women and 15 young evaluators)
Act 2 Two regional metings of WBEN ; Outputs: Initiative for introduction for own professional evaluator standard- WBEN- PES; Minimum competneces for M& E

5. 1st regional Conference for Evaluators WB, Sarajevo 28-29.10. 2015.
Regional meeting WBEN , Sаrаjеvо god
1st regional Conference for Evaluators WB, Sarajevo

6. Promotional event Macedonia –Skoplje 21.12.2015

7. Promotional event and WBEN Meeting Montenegro- Podgorica 10-11.03.2016

8. Sustainable results During the project
Established 4 (four) partnerships on national level for cooperation between VOPE and national authority body for evaluation ;
Organization of 4 events for presentation of national best practices in evaluation;
Organization of WBEN regional meetings for regional best practices in evaluation and select 20 of them (5 from each VOPEs).
Printed brochure with all presented best practices
Initiative for introduction for own professional evaluator standard- WBEN- PES; and prepared; Minimum competneces for M& E
Web page
After the project
Meeting with UN representatives for MSG
Invitation to apply with the projects for parliamentarian cooperation
Training programs for M& Ev;
Agenda for introduction of professional evaluator standard- WBEN- PES
First WBEN meeting in September 2016
Formalization of WBEN
Procedures for professionalization and WBEN-PES issuing

10. Positive lessons learnt
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National VOPEs has different agenda about strategic priorities evaluators from WB Countries but are willing to cooperate on the topics for professionalization of M&E
Positive response from national authorities although the donors are more active and undertake initiatives regarding M&E
The WBEN has potential to promote Evalpartner Agenda
Partners VOPEs raised awareness about M&E in their countries
What would be different
More focus to given on the Eval partner agenda ;
Grouping the topics about best practices and organized separate events ;
Each partner to be responsible for coordination of minimum ne activity