Getting prepared to celebrate 2015 Evaluation Year As we get ready to launch 2015, the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear), we are inviting evaluators, managers and policy makers from all over the world to celebrate evaluation and the way we have linked with one another to promote the demand, supply and use of equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation in policy and program decisions. We are creating a visible master calendar that will be published on the EvalPartners website, of gatherings on evaluation during 2015 in every part of the world.
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| # | Event | Dates | Location | Organizer | Links/ Remarks |
| 1 | Evaluation Capacity Building Seminar in Central Asia | 11 December 2014 | Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic | National Monitoring and Evaluation Network of the Kyrgyz Republic, Monitoring and Evaluation Community of Practice of Tajikistan, Washington Evaluators | Contact person: Tatiana Tretiakova |
| 2 | Celebration for official adoption of the UN resolution on evaluation | 17 December 2014 | UN building, New York; | UNEG | Contact person: Marco Segone |
| 3 | India Evaluation Week | 19-23 January 2015 | Delhi, India | IAMR and Planning Commission of India | Contact person: Dr. Rashmi Agrawal |
| 4 | IDRC- Series of EvalYear speaker/ panel events: Evaluating the Impact of Climate change; Lessons from Gender Evaluation; Impact Evaluation; Evaluation field-building in the South; Evaluating Rule of Law | 6 February to 30 November 2015 | Ottawa and Montreal Canada | International Development Research Centre | Contact person: Colleen Duggan |
| 5 | 1 ERE Journées Ivoiriennes de l’Evaluation (JiE 2015) | 09-10 et 11 février 2015 | Abidjan, Côte d’ Ivoire | Réseau Ivoirien de Suivi et d’Evaluation (RISE) | Contact person: Mamadou Coulibaly Le thème principal: L’evaluation au Coeur des enjeux de l’emergence |
| 6 | EvalMENA General Assembly | 23-26 February 2015 | Cairo, Egypt | EvalMENA Network | Contact person: Ziad Moussa |
| 7 | IAPE 13th Annual Conference on Advocacy for Evaluation | 2nd March 2015 | Mandel Institute for Leadership in Beer Sheva Israel | The Israeli Association for Program Evaluation (IAPE) | Contact person: Dr. Barbara Rosenstein |
| 8 | ReLAC 4th International Conference | 9-13 March 2015 | Lima, Peru | Latin-American and Caribbean Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization Network (RELAC) | Please Visit Contact person: Ada Ocampo |
| 9 | Uganda Evaluation Week | 10-13 March 2015 | Uganda | The Government of Uganda represented by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Evaluation in partnership with the Uganda Evaluation Association | Contact person: Albert Byamugisha |
| 10 | UNEG Evaluation Week | 9-13 March 2015 | New York, USA | United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) | Contact person: Marco Segone |
| 11 | Brown Bag: Evaluation Capacity Building Program in Central Asia | 17 March 2015 | Washington, USA | Washington Evaluators | Contact person: David Bernstein |
| 12 | New Zealand's government-led initiative for the International Year of Evaluation | 18 March 2015 | Wellington, New Zealand | Organizational Evaluation team of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (the NZ Prime Minister’s Office) is co-sponsoring. | Contact person: Matilde Tayawa |
| 13 | SAMEA, WSG & CLEAR AA officially launch the International Year of Evaluation in South Africa | 19 March 2015 | University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg | South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA), WSG & CLEAR AA | Contact person: Michael Leslie |
| 14 | Conference on taking responsibility in M&E for systemic change | 19-20 March 2015 | Wageningen, The Netherlands | Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University and Research centre | Theme: "Monitoring and Evaluation for Responsible Innovation & quot Contact person: Cecile Kusters |
| 15 | The launch of EvalYear in Mauritania | 31 March 2015 | Nouakchott, Mauritania | Association Mauritanienne de Suivi-Evaluation (Mauritania Evaluation Network) | Contact person: Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall |
| 16 | Webinar – Future opportunities and challenges for evaluation at UNDP | 1 April 2015 | Virtual | Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP and the Fletcher School | Please Visit Contact person: |
| 17 | Webinar – Emerging challenges for equity focused and gender responsive evaluation | 8 April 2015 | Virtual | Independent Evaluation Office of UN Women and the Fletcher School | Please Visit Contact person: Florencia Tateossian |
| 18 | Launch of the International Year for Evaluation in Madagascar | 17 April 2015 | Antananarivo, Madagascar | Madagascar Evaluation Society (MASSE) | The event will coincide two weeks French version of IPD E and the official launch of the development of a National Policy document forEvaluation in Madagascar Contact person: Bali Andriantseheno |
| 19 | Italian Evaluation Association annual conference | 17-18 April 2015 | Genoa, Italy | Italian Evaluation Association (AIV) | Theme: “Evaluation and Social Equity. Evaluation as a public policy change mechanism to fight against social inequalities.” Contact person: Mita Marra |
| 20 | A high level panel discussion and reception to promote EvalYear 2015 | 21 April 2015 | Vienna, Austria | Vienna based UN agencies together with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Contact person: Katherine Aston |
| 21 | Opening Session of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society | 26 April 2015 | Galloway, New Jersey, USA | Eastern Evaluation Research Society | Contact person: Cheryl M. Ackerman |
| 22 | Danish Government EvalYear event: “Policy and Practice of Danida Evaluation” | 11 May 2015 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Contact person: Sus Ulbaek |
| 23 | UK Evaluation Society Conference | 13 and 14 May 2015 | London, UK | UK Evaluation Society | Please Visit |
| 24 | Nirun Sahingiray International Forum on Measurement and Evaluation in Non-profit Organizations | 14 May 2015 | Istanbul, Turkey | Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey with cooperation of Harvard University | Contact person: Suat Kardas |
| 25 | “Sistemas de Protección e Inclusión Social en América Latina” | 21 de mayo | Buenos Aires, Argentina | la Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social conjuntamente con el Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, la Organización Iberoamericana de Seguridad Social y la Universidad Tres de Febrero | Contact person: Irene Novacovsky |
| 26 | Development Evaluation National Forum | 22-23 May 2015 | Rabat (Morocco) | Moroccan Evaluation Association | Contact person: Jamal Ramdane |
| 27 | Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) conference | 24-27 May 2015 | Montreal, Canada | Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) | Theme: Evaluation for the- world we want Contact person: Marie Gervais |
| 28 | The Jordan Evaluation Days | 26- 28 May 2015 | Amman, Jordan | EvalJordan | Contact person: Amjad Attar |
| 29 | AfDB - IDEV event titled “Development Evaluation -Development Effectiveness”. | 28 May 2015 | Abidjan | Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) - African Development Bank | Contact person: Jayne Musumba |
| 30 | Convención Anual de la Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Evaluación | 30 de mayo de 2015 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | La Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Evaluación | Please Visit Persona contacto: María del R. Medina |
| 31 | Seminario de Introducción a la Evaluación de Políticas Púbicas | 1 de junio de 2015 | Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico | La Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Evaluación | Please Visit Persona contacto: María del R. Medina |
| 32 | Czech Evaluation Society Annual Conference | 9 June 2015 | Prague, Czech Republic | Czech Evaluation Society | Theme: " New opportunities with respect to evaluations" : Contact person: Inka Pibilova |
| 33 | Conference on Evidence to practice - How NGOs can benefit from impact studies | 9 June 2015 | Bern, Switzerland | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | A series of activities including an Impact Study Award. Contact person: Hans Rudolf Felber |
| 34 | Conference: The future of training and further education in evaluation | 11-12 June 2015 | Saarbrücken, Germany | Master of Evaluation (MEval), Saarland University and University of Applied Sciences, Saarbrücken | The Conference is held in German Contact person: Sandra Schopper Birgit Schneider |
| 35 | Congreso Internacional "Evaluación y Rendición de Cuentas para la Transparencia Democrática" & IX Conferencia Bienal Internacional de la SEE | 11 y 12 de junio de 2015 | Sevilla, España | Sociedad Española de Evaluación de Políticas Públicas | Please Visit Contacto: SEE |
| 36 | DAC Evaluation Network meeting | 15-16 June | Paris, France | DAC Network on Development Evaluation, OECD | Contact person: Hans Lundgren |
| 37 | Mexico Evaluation Week | 15-19 June 2015 | Mexico City, Mexico | The CLEAR Center; The Mexican Agency for International Development; National Academy of Evaluators, The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy. | Contact person: Cristina Galíndez and Janett Salvador |
| 38 | Journées Françaises de l’Evaluation | 18-19 juin 2015 | Montpellier, France | Société Française de l’Evaluation | Contact person: Jean Marie Loncle Le thème principal: Evaluer pour évoluer,et réciproquement! |
| 39 | DFID´s first 2015 Year of Evaluation event | 18 June 2015 | London, UK | Department for International Development, UK | Theme: “Maximising the Value of Evaluations – Using Evidence to Learn and Adapt” Contact person: David Rinnert |
| 40 | Speakers Lunch, Celebration of EvalYear at IPDET | 24 June 2015 | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada | International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) | Please Visit
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| 41 | Media Dialogue in EvalYear in Ghana | 25 June 2015 | Ghana | Ghana M&E Forum (GMEF) with UNICEF - Ghana | Contact person: Clemens Gros, Dede Bedu-Addo |
| 42 | Symposium: Evaluation as a strategic element for the effectiveness of public policies, programs and projects | 26 June 2015 | Managua, Nicaragua | Nicaraguan Network in Monitoring and Evaluation (ReNicSE) and Institute of Administration and Public Policies /UNI | Contact person: Eduardo Centeno (centeno.eduardo @gmail.com) |
| 43 | National launch of EvalYear in Ghana followed by regional forums on EvalYear in three regions and a policy dialogue | 2 July 2015 | Ghana | Ghana M&E Forum (GMEF) with UNICEF - Ghana |
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| 44 | Colloquium of state and the evaluation community | 2 July 2015 | Santiago, Chile | Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización de Latinoamerica y el Caribe, in Chili. (RELAC_Ch) | Contact person: Andrea Peroni |
| 45 | The Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association Conference | 6-9 July 2015 | Auckland - New Zealand | The Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association | Theme: 'Navigating Evaluation : Making waves in Aotearoa and -across the Pacific". Contact person: Kate McKegg |
| 46 | Regional Colloquium on the evaluation of public policies Theme : "Building together the evaluation of tomorrow" |
07 - 09 July 2015 | Cotonou - Rep of Benin | Ministry of Evaluation of Public Policies, Promotion of Good Governance and Social Dialogue in partnership with UNDP, CLEAR AFRICA, UNICEF and 3IE | Contact person: Mirianaud Oswald Agbadome The event will host the Francophone Dialogue on the Evaluation Capacity Development in Africa
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| 47 | Seminario Internacional: La Contribución de la Evaluación al Desarrollo en América Latina, Diálogo entre Política y Evaluación | 15-17 Julio de 2015 | Centro de Investigación y Capacitación en Administración Pública (CICAP), San José, Costa Rica | Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Universidad del Sarre, Alemania (UdS) | Contacto: Olman Villarreal Guzman Carolina Zúñiga Zamora |
| 48 | Wilton Park event on New Frontiers for Evaluation in an era of market oriented development | 20-22 July 2015 | Wilton Park Conference Centre, West-Sussex, UK |
Wilton Park and the Centre for Development Impact |
Contact person: Susan Bruce |
| 49 | EvalYear celebrations at the Annual General Meeting of the APNODE | 23 - 24 July 2015 | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire | African Parliamentarians' Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE) | Contact person: Jayne Musumba, |
| 50 | Evaluation day - "EvalCafé" | 1 August 2015 | Yaounde, Cameroon | Cameroonian Community of Evaluators | Contact person: Serge Eric Yakeu |
| 51 | Consultation with East Asian Parliamentarians in Strengthening Evaluation Function in National Development Agenda | 10-11 August 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand | PFDE, UNICEF, UN Women, EvalPartners |
Contact person: Ada Ocampo |
| 52 | 10th Conference of the Latin-American and the Caribbean Network on Monitoring and Evaluation (REDLACME) | 2-4 September 2015 | Panama City, Panama | REDLACME, The Inter-American Development Bank; the World Bank; and the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America | Contact person: Roberto García López |
| 53 | Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) and Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN) conference | 3-4 September 2015 | University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland | Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) and Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN) | Contact Person: Craig Russon or Claude Hilfiker SEVAL Annual Conference |
| 54 | Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) conference | 5-9 September 2015 | Melbourne, Australia | Australasian Evaluation Society | Theme: Reaching across boundaries Contact person: Bill Wallace |
| 55 | Ethiopian Monitoring and Evaluation Association 2nd General Assembly | 6-7 September 2015 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Ethiopian Monitoring and Evaluation Association | Contact person: Habtamu Tesfaye |
| 56 | ZEA Regional Conference and Workshops | 14-18 September 2015 | Harare, Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe Evaluation Association | Contact person: Adeline Sibanda |
| 57 | ADB learning event entitled " Think Sustainable, Act Responsible ”. | 15-16 September 2015 | Manila, Philippines | Asian Development Bank | Contact person: Vinod Thomas |
| 58 | SLEvA International Conference 2015 | 15-18 September 2015 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka Evaluation Association | Please Visit Contact person: K. Romeshun |
| 59 | Consultation with Latin American Parliamentarians in Strengthening Evaluation Function in Post Development Agenda | 17-18 September 2015 | Parlatino, Panama City, Panama | PFDE, UNICEF, UN Women, CLEAR, EvalPartners | Contact person: Ada Ocampo |
| 60 | International Programme Evaluation Network (IPEN) conference | 23-25 September 2015 | Kiev, Ukraine | International Programme Evaluation Network | Contact person: Natalia Kosheleva |
| 61 | Conference entitled ‘’Evaluating for Growth: Introducing the Hellenic Evaluation Society’’ | 24 September 2015 | Athens, Greece | Hellenic Evaluation Society |
Contact person: Dimitra Ioannou |
| 62 | Polish Evaluation Society Conference | 27-29 September 2015 | Krakow, Poland | Polish Evaluation Society with the Polish Ministry of Regional Development and the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development | Please Visit Contact person: Weronika Felcis |
| 63 | Joint conference: Making effective use of evaluations in an increasingly complex world | 30 September 2015 | Paris, France | UNESCO, OECD, French Evaluation Society, European Evaluation Society | Further information: Please Visit |
| 64 | Iberoamerican meeting on institutionalizing evaluation in the public sector | 30 September to 2 October 2015 | Cartagena de Indias, Colombia | Spanish Cooperation Secretaría General de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo División de Evaluación de Políticas para el Desarrollo y Gestión del Conocimiento | Contact person: Paula Caballero |
| 65 | International Conference on institutionalizing the evaluation in public policies | 5-6 October 2015 | Rabat, (Morocco) | National Observatory of Human Development, in partnership with the United Nations in Morocco |
Contact: National Observatory of Human Development (ONDH) Contact: |
| 66 | Moroccan Evaluation Week | 7-10 October 2015 | Rabat (Morocco) | Moroccan Evaluation Association | Contact person: Jamal Ramdane |
| 67 | SAMEA’s 5th Biennial Conference | 12-16 October 2015 | Hilton Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg | South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) | Contact person: Jennifer Bisgard Theme: Using evaluation to improve people’s lives |
| 68 | CEI EvalYear Conference 2015 | 14-15 October, 2015 | Montego Bay, Jamaica | Caribbean Evaluators International | Contact Person: Meegan Scott Theme: Evaluating Development, Evolving Possibilities |
| 69 | Training programme on National Evaluation societies | 19-31 October 2015 | Antwerp, Belgium | The Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp | Contact person: Sara Dewachter |
| 70 | National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) conference | 26-30 October 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand | UNDP in partnership with UNEG and EvalPartners | Contact person: Ana Rosa Monteiro Soares |
| 71 | IDEAS Global Assembly | 26-30 October 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand | IDEAS | Contact person: Rob D. Van Den Berg |
| 72 | First Regional Conference of Evaluators of Western Balkan | 28-29 October 2015 | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina | Western Balkan Evaluation Network and Evaluation Society of Bosnia & Herzegovina | Contact person: Dr. Irena Ðokic Bojan Radej |
| 73 | RASPPE Annual Conference | 29-31 October 2015 | Moscow, Russia | Russian Association of Specialists in Program and Policy Evaluation | Please Visit Contact person: Alexey Kuzmin |
| 74 | Launch of Zambia Evaluation Association and EvalYear Celebration | 3 November 2015 | Lusaka, Zambia | Ministry of Finance and Zambia Evaluation Association | Contact person Victor Mabika |
| 75 | International conference on Education Evaluation: to ensure quality and development | 4-5 Nov 2015 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Public Education Evaluation Commission (PEEC) | Please Visit Contact person Dr. May Alobaidy |
| 76 | AfDB Development Evaluation Week | 6 and 9-11 November | Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire | Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) - African Development Bank | Contact person: Felicia Avwontom |
| 77 | American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference | 9-14 November 2015 | Chicago, USA | American Evaluation Association | Theme: Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World: Learning from Evaluation’s Successes Around the Globe Contact person: Dr. Stewart Donaldson |
| 78 | Celebrating EvalYear during the Evaluation Week with the end of year session of the Parliament and the Senate of Cameroon | 9 - 13 November 2015 | Yaoundé Conference Center | Cameroon Development Evaluation Association (CaDEA) | Contact person: Debazou Yantio |
| 79 | Workshop on Policy Evaluation with celebration of EvalYear | 12-13 November 2015 | Belgrade, Serbia | Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) together with Austrian Institute for SME Research and the Government of Serbia | Contact person: Dragiša Mijačić |
| 80 | 1st international conference of NAE | 16-17 November 2015 | Abuja, Nigeria | Nigerian Association of Evaluators | Contact person: Florence Etta |
| 81 | Two-day technical seminar on “Enhancing the evaluability of Sustainable Development Goal 2 | 17-18 November 2015 | IFAD in Rome, Italy | Evaluation Offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR | Contact person: Melba Alvarez |
| 82 | Welsh Evaluation Conference | 16-20 November 2015 | Welsh Government Offices: Cardiff, Llandudno Junction and Aberystwyth | Welsh Government with support from Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD), Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW), and the Social Research Association. | Contacts: Faye Gracey, Chris Roberts, Jamie Smith, Richard Thurston |
| 83 | 20th Anniversary Celebrations of Operations Evaluation at the European Investment Bank. | 23-26 November 2015 | Luxembourg | Inspectorate General, Operations Evaluation, European Investment Bank | Contact person: Claudia Monti |
| 84 | Community of Evaluators South Asia (CoE-SA) Evaluation Conclave (in the context of Global EvalYear event) | 23-27 November 2015 | Kathmandu, Nepal | Community of Evaluators South Asia (CoE-SA) | Contact person: Mallika Samaranayake |
| 85 | Global EvalYear Event which includes EvalPartners 2nd Global Forum | 23-27 November 2015 | Kathmandu, Nepal | EvalPartners, IOCE, UN Women, CoE-SA, PFDE, CoE Nepal, Parliament of Nepal, National Planning Commission of Nepal, UNEG | Please Visit Contact person: Marco Segone |
| 86 | 2015 Brazilian Monitoring and Evaluation Network Seminar | 25 - 27 November 2015 | Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil | Brazilian Monitoring and Evaluation Network and Fundação João Pinheiro | Contact person: Marcia Paterno and Breynner OliveiraTheme: Diversity in Evaluation: Multiple Perspectives and Approaches |
| 87 | Evaluation Forum at US Department of State | 2 December 2015 | George C. Marshall Conference Center, Washington, DC | U.S. Department of State | Contact person: Eileen Cronin |
| 88 | Morocco Evaluation Week 2015 | 8-10 December 2015 | Marrakesh, Morocco | Moroccan Evaluation Association (Association Marocaine de l’Evaluation) | Contact person: Mouna EL Ghormli |
| 89 | The 13th ODA Evaluation Workshop | 9-10 December 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan | Contact person : Naomi Aoki |
| 90 | Bhutan Evaluation Conference “Evaluation for Sustainable Development and Gross National Happiness” | 11 December 2015 | Thimphu, Bhutan | Evaluation Association of Bhutan | Contact person : Kezang |
| 91 | The promotional event for Good Monitoring and Evaluation practices in Republic of Macedonia | 21 December 2015 | Skopje, Macedonia | Macedonian Evaluation Network | Contact person : Risto Ivanov |
| 92 | EvalYear Celebration in Pakistan | 30 and 31 December 2015 | Islamabad, Pakistan | UNICEF Pakistan | Contact person : Mussarrat Youssuf |