National Evaluation Capacities Conference 2013

About NEC Conference 2013

Venue

Brazil

Date

29 September-02 October

Theme

"Solutions related to challenges on independence, credibility
and use of evaluation"

The Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger came together to co-host the Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities.

The purpose of the conference was to share experiences, challenges and solutions from programme countries with national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, including countries that may be considering creating one. The conference provided a forum to identify lessons and challenges in implementing national M&E systems and the use of evaluation. Overall, the conference helped to identify supply and demand for technical assistance in strengthening institutional capacity for national M&E systems under the umbrella of South-South and triangular cooperation. The conference was organized around three interrelated topics: independence, credibility and use of evaluation.

The conference was specifically designed to provide opportunities for an open exchange and direct interactions among national institutions commissioning evaluations, institutions and professionals conducting evaluations and decision makers using evaluations.

Highlights

Programmes

Opening of the Conference

Paulo de Martino Jannuzzi, Secretariat for Evaluation and Information Management, Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger

Indran A. Naidoo, Director, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

OPENING ADDRESS

Rebeca Grynspan, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator

Plenary Session 1

Dialogue on the Importance of Eval Year

Moderator: Marco Segone, EvalPartners co-chair

EvalYear – what is the expected goal in terms of National Evaluation Capacity Development by the year 2015?

Presenter: Asela Kalugampitiya (Sri Lanka), Secretariat of EvalYear on behalf of EvalPartners

How can governments, parliamentarians and VOPEs work together to strengthen the demand and use of evaluation?

Commentators (government, MP and VOPE)

Hon. Kabir Hashim, Member of Sri Lanka Parliament, Leader of South Asia Parliamentarian Forum and member of EvalPartners International Advisory Group

Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy, Secretary, Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development, Sri Lanka

Mallika Samaranayake, President of CoE/South Asia/Sri Lanka

Plenary Session 2

Innovative Solutions to Challenges linked to use of Evaluation

Moderator: Juha Uitto, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Keynote address: Paulo Jannuzzi, Secretary for Evaluation and Information Management, Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger

Plenary Dialogue - Use of evaluation

What are some of the innovative solutions to deal with challenges linked to use of evaluation?

Moderator: Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Discussants

Mexico - Thania de la Garza Navarrete, General Director of Evaluation, Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL)
Dominican Republic -Ivett Subero, Director of UN System Monitoring, Multilateral Cooperation Office (DIGECOOM), Ministry of Economy
Malawi - Ted Sitima-wina, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development

Plenary Session 3

Innovative Solutions to Challenges linked to Evaluation Credibility

Moderator: Juha Uitto, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Keynote address: Maria Bustelo, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

Plenary Dialogue - Evaluation Credibility

How to ensure/strengthen evaluation credibility?

Moderator: Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Discussants

Canada - Martha McGuire, CES Representative to and Treasurer of IOCE Board
South Africa - JP van der Merwe, Acting Deputy Director-General: Monitoring and Evaluation
Ghana - Clesencio Tizikara, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

Plenary Session 4

Innovations in Evaluation

Moderator: Jennifer Colville, UNDP Bureau for Development Policy

Presenters

Thomas Winderl, Innovations in Evaluation

Natalia Kosheleva, EvalPartners co-chair and IOCE President, EvalPartners Innovation Challenge

Plenary Session 5

How evaluations inFLuenced Brazilian programmes

Moderator: Paula Montagner, MDS/SAGI (Brazil)

Discussants

Alexandro Rodrigues Pinto, Acting Director of Evaluation / SAGI/MDS, Programa Bolsa Família (Family Grant Program)

Cecília Ishikawa Lariú, Impact Evaluation Coodinator/ SAGI/MDS, Cistern Programme

Luciana Sardinha, Demand Assessment General Coordinator, Food Acquisition Program

Plenary Session 6

Innovative Solutions to Challenges linked To Independence of Evaluations

Moderator:

Ximena Fernandez Ordone, World Bank IEG

Keynote address: Hans Martin Boehmer, Senior Manager, IEGCS/World Bank

Plenary Dialogue - Independence of Evaluation

How to ensure Evaluation Independence?

Moderator/commentator: Juha Uitto, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Discussants

Hans Martin Boehmer, Senior Manager, IEGCS/World Bank

Paulo Jannuzzi, Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger

Maria Bustelo, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

Way Forward and Closing Remarks

What are the agreed commitments and actions of this NEC conference towards the Proposed EvalYear 2015?

Moderator:

Ana Soares, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

CLOSING REMARKS

Paulo Jannuzzi, Secretary for Evaluation and Information Management, Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger

Indran Naidoo, Director, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Documents

Partners

Government of Brazil (Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger)

The Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MSD) was created in January 2004, by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the goal of promoting the social inclusion, food and nutrition security, full social assistance and a minimum citizen income to the families living in poverty. In order to do it, the Ministry implements numerous programs and public policies for social development, manages the Social Assistance National Fund (SANF) and approves the general budgets of the Industry Social Service (SESI), of the Commerce Social Service (SESC) and the Transport Social Service (SEST).

Country Participation