4th International Conference
on National Evaluation
Capacities
Bangkok Thailand
Presenter: Ray Rist 
Ray has had a distinguished career which includes a range of high profile government and academic appointments. He has been a professor at a several prestigious universities, and has been a consultant to many national and international organisations, including The World Bank, OECD, DFID, IADB, and a range of corporations, House and Senate committees in the United States. The focus of much of this consulting has been on public sector performance, especially that of results based management and measurement, and he has been an advisor to senior government officials in more than 50 countries. Ray is co-director of the International program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET). He has authored or edited 31 books and has authored more than 140 articles and monographs.
Presenter: Jo Puri
Dr Jyotsna (Jo) Puri leads 3ie’s evaluation team and is the deputy executive director. She is a member of 3ie’s senior management team, leads 3ie’s open, thematic and policy related grant windows and is also responsible for fund raising. Jo Puri has over 18 years of experience in evaluation and evidence-based policy and has worked earlier at the World Bank and the United Nations. Previously she was Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University. Jo is also currently adjunct faculty at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University.
Presenter: Richard Levin
Presenter: Frederic Martin
Presenter: Linda Morra
Linda currently heads her own consulting firm, acting as an independent consultant to diverse groups including the Independent Evaluation Group of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Korean International Development Agency, the DPMG Consulting Group, China Ministry of Finance, and others for training and other ECD services. She has thirty years experience in designing, conducting, and managing policy, program and project evaluations, both nationally and internationally; she also has twenty years experience as an advisor and trainer on M & E in both the developing and developed country contexts.
Presenters: Heather Bryant and Ana Rosa Soares
Heather Bryant has been an Evaluation Specialist with the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) since 2012. She is currently conducting evaluations of UNDP country programmes called Assessments of Development Results), and recently completed a Joint Evaluation of the GEF/UNDP Small Grants Programme in collaboration with the GEF Independent Evaluation Office. Prior to joining the UNDP IEO, Heather worked for UNDP Nepal as the head of the Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness Unit, where she was responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluation tasks, with a special emphasis on human rights, gender equality and social exclusion issues. Heather has a master’s in geography from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and speaks English and French.
Ana Rosa Soares is an Evaluation Advisor in the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP where she is also the coordinator for National Evaluation Capacity Development. She is responsible for conducting country, regional and global thematic and programmatic evaluations. Prior to working for the IEO, she was a Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and the focal point for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for UNDP in Brazil. Before joining the UN, Ms. Soares was an International Projects’ Manager at the Center for International Development for SUNY, working with bilateral and multilateral cooperation of international development programmes and projects in Africa, Europe and Latin America. Ms. Soares has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, holds a Masters’ degree in Public Administration from SUNY Albany and is currently working on her Ph.D on Development Studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Presenters: Juha I. Uitto and Rob D. van den Berg
Juha I. Uitto is the Director of the GEF Independent Evaluation Office charged with evaluating the results and performance of the Global Environment Facility. Over the past decade and a half, he has conducted and managed a large number of evaluations of international cooperation at the global, regional and country levels, in particular related to environmental management and poverty-environment linkages. The book Evaluating Environment in International Development edited by Juha was published by Routledge in 2014. He holds a PhD in Social and Environment Geography.
Rob D van den Berg studied contemporary history at the University of Groningen in Netherlands. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, as well as a member of the Faculty of the International Program for Development Evaluation Training. His past positions include Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (2004-2014), Director of the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1999-2004), Senior Advisor on Research at the European Commission and various positions in Dutch development cooperation. From 2002 to 2004 he was the chairman of the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation. He has published more than 25 articles on development, research and evaluation and has co-edited four books.
Presenter: Michele Tarsilla
Michele Tarsilla has been designing and conducting evaluations and capacity development programs funded by a variety of international development organizations (the World Bank, FAO, WFP, DfiD and USAID) in a variety of sectors (including education, health, agriculture and food security) for over ten years. Thanks to his extensive field work (over 35 countries) and his fluency in six languages, Dr. Tarsilla has a unique appreciation of cultural competence in international development work and, as a result, a keen commitment to promote the use of innovative and progressive concepts and practices within the global evaluation community. A prolific blogger (@MIEval_TuEval), Dr. Tarsilla is a former International Rotary and Fulbright Scholar who received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Evaluation from Western Michigan University and a one-year graduate diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation from Carleton University in Ottawa. An IPDET graduate (2008), Michele joined the IPDET faculty in 2014.
Presenter: Marco Segone and Ada Ocampo
Marco Segone is Director, Independent Evaluation Office, at UN Women; Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), the network of Evaluation Offices of 46 UN agencies; and co-founder and co/chair of EvalPartners, the global partnership for national evaluation capacities. Previously, he was responsible for the decentralized evaluation function as well as the national evaluation capacity development portfolios at the UNICEF Evaluation Office; Regional Chief, Monitoring and Evaluation in the UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia; Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean; Brazil Country Office, and Niger Country Office. Previously, he worked in international NGOs in Albania, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand and Uganda. He has authored numerous publications including Evaluation for Equitable Development Results and How to Design and Manage Equity-Focused Evaluations.
Ada Ocampo is a Peruvian sociologist working in the UN system since 1990 with UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA and IFAD in different countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia. During her career, she has mainly focused on evaluation capacity development and on networking. She is the author of several articles and publications. She has lectured at Carleton University, Claremont University, The Indian School of Business (ISB) and at BRAC University. She has managed and led several evaluation training programs; and is one of the founders of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE). She represents UNICEF at the Management Group of EVALPARTNERS. Currently, she holds the position of Sr. Evaluation Specialist at UNICEF’s Evaluation Office in New York.
Presenter: Elliot Stern
Elliot Stern is a practicing evaluator and an active member of the international evaluation community. He is Emeritus Professor of Evaluation Research at Lancaster University (UK) and currently Visiting Professor at University of Bristol. Elliot edits the journal Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice published by Sage (UK); and was founding President of both the UK Evaluation Society and the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE). He was President of the European Evaluation Society; and a founding Academician and until recently a Council member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. Elliot has worked extensively in the international development field with a particular interest in methodology and the institutionalisation of evaluation. He led the team that designed the impact evaluation of the Paris Declaration for OECD; was team leader for the ‘independent external evaluation’ of UNESCO; and in 2011/2012 headed up an international team for DFID tasked with reviewing a broad range of impact evaluation methods and designs to be used when experimental methods were not appropriate. Elliot has been evaluation advisor to the Regional Development Directorate of the European Commission; UN Women; the UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change; and the CGIAR.
Presenters: Shiva Kumar and Bishwa Nath Tiwari
A. K. Shiva Kumar is a development economist and evaluator who works on issues related to human development - poverty, health, nutrition, basic education, and the rights of women and children. He has served as senior policy advisor to UNICEF India and as the Director of the International Centre for Human Development in New Delhi, India. He is Co-Chair of the Know Violence in Childhood – a global learning initiative that is synthesizing evidence to advocate for ending violence. Shiva Kumar was a founding board member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) and has undertaken several evaluation assignments for IDRC, IFAD, the Rockefeller Foundation, UNDP, UNICEF and other agencies. He has been a regular contributor to UNDP’s Human Development Reports and National Human Development Reports. He has been a member of several high level committees of the Government of India including the National Advisory Council and has been associated with the formulation of social policies and legislation in India. He has served on the Governing Council of the Centre for Science and Environment, the Public Health Foundation of India and the International Center for Research on Women. Shiva Kumar is a Visiting Professor at the Ashoka University, Indian School of Business, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he teaches economics and public policy. Shiva Kumar has done his Masters in Economics from Bangalore University, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Masters in Public Administration and a Ph.D in Political Economy and Government, both from Harvard University.
Bishwa Nath Tiwari Programme Specialist, HDR, Inclusive Growth, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub. Bishwa Tiwari works as Programme Specialist at the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) where he engages in the preparation and production of flagship analytical products on human development, ensures the quality of national human development reports working with UNDP country offices of the Asia-Pacific Region, and undertakes substantive technical and policy research. Prior to his reassignment at the BRH, he performed mostly these functions at Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP), New York during August 2013 – January 2015. Bishwa worked earlier as Deputy Regional Programme Coordinator of Human Development Report Unit at the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, Bangkok from January 2011 to July 2013, where he was engaged in writing the Asia-Pacific Human Development Report, planning and managing regional HDR project, undertaking capacity development measures, and providing country support. Prior to this, he served as M & E advisor of the UNDP’s UPPR project in Bangladesh (2009-10), and Manager of two Government of Nepal/UNDP projects – Poverty Monitoring for PRSP and National HDR (2002 – 2009). He also served as Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Officer in WFP (2000-2001), with the responsibility of assessing food insecurity & vulnerability, and monitoring & evaluation of WFP programmes. Bishwa started his career as a teacher in Tribhuvan University in 1981 and continued until 1999 where apart from teaching Economic Theory he worked as Advisor/consultant for more than two dozens of government, non-government organizations and civil society. Born in Nepal, Bishwa holds PhD in Economics from Rajasthan University, MA in Economics from Tribhuvan University, and MSc in Environmental and resource Economics from University of London. Apart from writing regional and national HDRs, he has authored 2 books, co-authored/written a chapter in 7 books and published more than a dozen of research articles in national and international journals.
Presenter: Zenda Ofir
Zenda Ofir is a South African evaluation and KM specialist who has conducted M&E assignments in more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia for more than 40 major organisations. She has worked from local to global levels in many diverse areas of development and research evaluation. She is a former AfrEA President, IOCE Vice-President and AEA Board member, and frequently serves in advisory capacities for global, multilateral and regional organisations, among others GAVI, UNDP, WHO, CGIAR, AGRA, CLEAR-AA and the Rockefeller Foundation. With a PhD in Chemistry, Zenda was Director of Research at Pretoria University and senior manager at a South African Science Council before moving into evaluation. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Hiroshima and presented for several years the Aid Effectiveness module of the United Nations University in Tokyo. She is currently an honorary professor at the School for Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch.
Zenda prefers to work with development interventions that strengthen the capabilities of individuals, organisations and institutional systems, and that make a real, long-term difference in society.
JOINT KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Evaluation for Improving People's Lives
Ms. Mallika Samaranayake, Sri Lanka, President of the Community of Evaluators of South Asia
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius
Coordinator: Francine Pickup
Chair/Commentator: Mr. Nicholas Rosellini, UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Asia-Pacific and Director of Bangkok Regional Hub
Note taker: Supharat Kaewkhonkaen
Coordinator: Daniela Gasparikova
| SESSION 1 | EvalSDGs – A Platform for Advocacy, Learning and Innovation for Evaluation
Chair/Commentator: AUSTRALIA - Ms. Dorothy Lucks, Secretary IOCE, Co-Chair EvalSDGs and Executive Director at SDF Global
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius |
Ballroom C |
| SESSION 2 | Use of Evaluation and Knowledge Management for Evidence Based Policy Making and Development
Chair/Commentator: UK - Mr. Elliot Stern, UNDP IEO Evaluation Advisory Panel Member, Professor of Evaluation Research, Lancaster University
Note taker: Kamolmas Jaiyen |
Ballroom A |
| SESSION 3 | The Role of Parliamentarians to Promote National Evaluation Capacities to Support the SDGs Chair/Commentator: SRI LANKA - Mr. Asela Kalugampitiya, EvalPartners Executive Coordinator
Note taker: Asela Kalugampitiya |
Mekong Meeting Room |
| SESSION 4 | Addressing Gender Equity and Human Rights in Evaluations of Public Policies and Programmes Chair/Commentator: AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK - Mr. Rakesh Nangia, Evaluator General (Vice President), African Development Bank
Note taker: Trung Le |
Seine Meeting Room |
| SESSION 5 | M&E Systems to Improve Performance of Policies and Programmes Chair/Commentator: UNDP RBAP – Ms. Francine Pickup, UNDP Strategic Planning Advisor
Note taker: Heather Bryant |
Ballroom B |
| JOINT SESSION 1 | New Frontiers for Evaluation in a Fast Changing World
Chair/Commentator: WORLD BANK – Ms. Caroline Heider, Director General of the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius |
Ballroom A |
| JOINT SESSION 2 | Evaluation Challenges and Innovations in Small Island Developing States
Chair/Commentator: GEF – Mr. Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility
Note taker: Sutharin Koonphol |
Ballroom C |
| JOINT SESSION 3 | The Role of Bilateral Agencies and the OECD-DAC Evalnet in Promoting NEC to Support the SDGs Chair/Commentator: FINLAND - Ms. Riitta Oksanen, Senior Advisor, Unit for Development Evaluation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Note taker: Heather Bryant |
Ballroom B |
Challenges of Evaluating Sustainable Development
Mr. Vinod Thomas
Director-General Evaluation, Asian Development Bank
Chair: Ms. Susan Tamondong, Vice-President of IDEAS
Commentator: Mr. Emmanuel Jimenez, Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
Note taker: Sutharin Koonphol
National Policies and Capabilities for Evidence-Based Planning and Results-Based Governance
Co-chairs: UNDP - Ms. Simona Marinescu, Chief of the Development Impact Group
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius
Coordinator: Serdar Bayriyev
| Session 6 | Good Practices in Strengthening Institutional Evaluation Capacities in Government
Moderator: CLEAR – Ms. Nidhi Khattri, Lead, Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius |
Ballroom A |
| SESSION 7 | A Cross-Regional Dialogue on NEC: Opportunities, Challenges, Lessons Learned
Chair/Commentator: ARMENIA - Mr. Garegin Melkonyan, First Deputy Minister of Economy
Note taker: Olga Shashkina |
Seine Meeting Room |
| SESSION 8 | Establishing Sound Subnational M&E systems - Meeting the Challenges with Local Creativity?
Chair/Commentator: CHINA – Mr. Li Kouqing, Director General, Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute and Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results
Note taker: Heather Bryant |
Mekong Meeting Room |
| SESSION 9 | SMART Indicators, Adaptation of Indices and M&E Systems for the SDGs - The Challenge of the Millennium
Chair/Commentator: Mr. Ray Rist, UNDP IEO Evaluation Advisory Panel Member
Note taker: Supharat Kaewkhonkaen |
Ballroom B |
| SESSION 10 | Building credible national data systems for results based monitoring and evaluation of the SDGs (Ballroom C)
Chair: BRAZIL - Ms. Lycia Silva e Lima, General Coordinator, Sao Paulo School for Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Center for Applied Micro-economics
Note taker: Kamolmas Jaiyen |
Ballroom C |
| SPECIAL JOINT SESSION 4 | The Future of Social and Environmental Safeguards
Coordinator: Volunteers |
Ballroom A |
| SPECIAL JOINT SESSION 5 | The Role South-South Collaboration in Evaluation to support the SDGs
Chairs/Moderator: UNDP – Mr. Arild Hauge, IEO Deputy Director
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius |
Ballroom C |
| SPECIAL JOINT SESSION 6 | Qualification of Evaluation Professionals
Chair/Commentator: DFID – Ms. Penny Hawkins, Head of Evaluation of DFID
Note taker: Kamolmas Jaiyen |
Yangtze Meeting Room |
| SPECIAL JOINT SESSION 7 | The Role of UNEG in Promoting NEC to Support the SDGs Commentator: Mr. Indran Naidoo, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP
Note taker: Armine Hovhannisyan |
Ballroom B |
Opportunities in Evaluating Equitable and Sustainable Development in the Context of SDG
Mr. Marco Segone, Director, Independent Evaluation Office of UN-Women, UNEG Chair
Chair: Mr. Arild Hauge, Deputy Director, Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP
Moderator: Mr. Rob D. van den Berg, IDEAS president
Note taker: Dorothy Lucks
Coordinator: Marta Lanzoni
| Session 11 | Asia and the Pacific Consultations
Co-Chair: Ms. Dharshana Senanayake, Director General, Department of Project Management and Monitoring, Ministry of Finance Facilitator: UNDP RBAP – Ms. Daniela Gasparikova, Team Leader RBM Unit Facilitator: UNDP RBAP – Ms. Francine Pickup, UNDP Strategic Planning Advisor
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Ballroom B |
| Session 12 | Africa Consultations
Facilitator: UNDP RBA - Mr. Mamadou N'Daw, RBM and M&E Advisor Note taker: Marie Gervais |
Ballroom C |
| Session 13 | Arab States Consultations
Chair: MOROCCO- Mr. El Hassan El Mansouri, Secrétaire Général de l'Observatoire national du développement Humain (ONDH), Facilitator: UNDP MOROCCO - Ms. Chafika Affaq , Programme Officer Note taker: Heather Bryant
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Seine Meeting Room |
| Session 14 | Europe and CIS Consultations Facilitator: UNDP RBEC – Ms. Elena Panova, Regional Senior Programme Coordinator Note taker: Armine Hovhannisyan
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Mekong Meeting Room |
| Session 15 | Latin America and the Caribbean Consultations
Facilitator: UNDP RBLAC – Mr. Gonzalo Guerra, RBM and M&E Advisor Note taker: Ximena Rios |
Ballroom A |
| SESSION 16 | The Role of National Governments in Impact Evaluation
Chair/Commentator: 3IE - Mr. Emmanuel Jimenez, Executive Director
Note taker: Kamolmas Jaiyen |
Mekong Meeting Room |
| SESSION 18 |
Government Innovations in Evaluation
Chair/Commentator: UNDP Trinidad & Tobago – Ms. Stacy Richards Kennedy, Assistant Resident Representative
Note taker: Marta Lanzoni |
Thonburi Ballroom |
| SESSION 19 | Civil Society Evaluation Skills Collaborating with Governments to Enhance Learning and Accountability
Chair: IOCE/EvalPartners – Mr. Jim Rugh, Coordinator IOCE/EvalPartners
Note taker: Kristina Leuchowius |
Thames Meeting Room |
| SESSION 20 | NEC in Africa: The Challenge with the Integration of Evaluation into SGDs and National Development Goals
Chair/Commentator: CANADA - Ms. Marie Gervais, Vice-President of IOCE and Vice-President of the Réseau francophone d’évaluation, RFE Discussant: SENEGAL – Mr. Boubacar Aw, Coordinator, CLEAR-CESAG
Note taker/coordinator: Marie Gervais |
Room 3, Mezzanine Floor |
The Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020 to support the Global Development Agenda post-2015
Note taker: Kamolmas Jaiyen
Coordinator: Francine Pickup
CLOSING EVALTORCH CEREMONY
Royal Thai Government HANDS TORCH to
Hon. Mr. Ananda Prasad Pokharel, Legislature Parliament of Nepal
Ms. Dorothy Lucks, EvalPartners Representative
