2019 Conference - Program

Pre-conference; Workshops Monday 30th September, 2019

Time	Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	Workshop 4	Workshop 5	Workshop 6
08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 17:00 (including lunch & coffee breaks)	Results Based Management for Evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals Ray C. Rist Room: Stockholm	GA and 3^rd International Conference Blue Marble Evaluation: Evaluating Global Systems Transformation Michael Quinn , Patton and Pablo Vidueira Room: Prague East	Contribution analysis for impact evaluation Giel Ton and Marina Apgar Room: Amsterdam	GA and 3^rd International Conference Impact Investing and Measurement in Climate Finance Private Sector Initiatives Jyotsna (Jo) Puri Room: Paris	To be or not to be: being a transformative evaluator today Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella , Silvia Salinas Mulder , Fabiola Amariles and Sonal Zaveri Room: London	GA and 3^rd International Conference Challenges of Evaluating Sustainability Rob D. van den Berg Room: Zurich

Pre-conference; Workshops Tuesday 1st October, 2019

Time	Workshop 7	Workshop 8	Workshop 9	Workshop 10	Workshop 11	Workshop 12
08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 17:00 (including lunch & coffee breaks)	Exploring the concept of an International Evaluation Academy Linda Morra Imas Room: Zurich	3^rd International Conference Evaluating at the Nexus of Development and Environment: Challenges and Opportunities Juha I. Uitto , Geeta Batra , Carlo Carugi , Jeneen Garcia and Anupam Anand Room: Prague East	Accelerating progress towards the transformations needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Zenda Ofir and Daniel Kehrer Room: Amsterdam	Together for change: working towards the Prague Declaration Daniel Svoboda , Blanka Krivankova and Eddah Kanini Room: London,	GA and 3^rd International Conference Co-creating a Blue Marble Baseline Glenn Page Room: Paris	The Multiple Dimensions of Evaluation in Fragility, Conflict and Violence Inga-Lill Aronsson and Hur Hassnain Room: Stockholm

Regular Programme; Wednesday 2nd October, 2019

Time

IDEAS Global Assembly

3^rd International Conference

07:30 - 08:30

Registration

08:30 - 09:00

Official opening of both conferences: welcome words of Rob D. van den Berg, IDEAS President, Juha I. Uitto, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-IEO) and Martin Pĕlucha, President of CES

Room: Prague Hall

09:00 - 10:30

Joint IDEAS/3^rd International Conference

Keynote Address

: Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK on Sustainability, equity and the politics of transformation: opportunities and challenges for evaluation

Chair

: Indran Naidoo, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

Room: Prague Hall

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee and tea break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 1:

Learning from Transformational Change for Climate Action

Panel session with Jean Mukumwa, Anna Williams, Neil Bird, Matthew Savage, Joe Dickman and Zenda Ofir.

Chair

: Rob D. van den Berg.

Sponsor

: CIF

Room: Prague East

Session 2:

Gender evaluation, a blind spot in SDG reporting?

Panel session with Svetlana Negroustoueva, Claudia Olavarria, Rashmi Agrawal, Benjamin Kachero, Umi Hanik & Hur Hassnain

Chair

: Silvia Salinas Mulder

Room: Prague West

Session 3:

Evaluation and Learning for Transition

Panel session with Hana Volna, Lucie Strohwasser, Lucie Jungwiertova, Jana Drlíková & Barry Kolodkin

Chair

: Daniel Svoboda

Sponsor

: Czech Development Agency

Room: Zurich

Session 4:

3^rd International Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development

Anu Saxén, Karen Odhiambo, Mike Spilsbury and Michael Wells

Chair

: Juha Uitto

Sponsor

: GEF and Finland

Room: Amsterdam

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

TC 1:

JICA’s evaluation experience and a new approach for evaluating transformative change

Panel session with Masayuki Eguchi and representatives from Egypt, Turkey, Peru and Uganda

Sponsor

: JICA

Room: Paris

TC 2:

Issues in adaptation

Presentations from Dennis Bours, Emilie Beauchamp, Kheswar Beeharry Panray and Eva Lithman

Chair

: Megan Kennedy-Chouane

Room: Stockholm

Transition 1:

Campfire with 2 sessions

Sarah Farina on Multi- actor systems change initiatives and Inka Bartošová on CSO Sector Resilience

Chair

: Vladimir Kvaca

Room: London

FCV 1:

Evaluation challenges and findings

Presentations from Josepha Mbia Epse, Ousséni Kinda and Arjan Schuthof

Chair

: Niels Dabelstein

Room: Zurich

G&E 1:

Advocacy, learning and behaviour

Presentations from Eddah Kanini Karijo, Nidhi Dubey, Zounkifirou Mongbet and Angelita Kithatu-Kiwekete

Chair

: Sonal Zaveri

Room: Prague West

Prof 1:

Round Table 1 on Strengthening Capacities: Competency Assessment

with Kenza Bennani, Marco Segone, Marie-Hélène Adrien and Josette Arévalo

Chair

: Jérôme Gandin

Room: Prague East

Environment 1:

Transformational change: Processes and Impacts

Panel session with Callum Murdoch, Indran Naidoo, Serge Eric Yakeu and Claudio Volonte

Chair

: Geeta Batra

Room: Amsterdam

15:00 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:45

TC 3:

Country perspectives

Presentations from Benedictus Stepantoro, Balsama Andriantseheno, Ethel Sibanda and Hussaini Ibrahim

Chair

: Debazou Yantio

Room: Stockholm

TC 4:

Evolution or Revolution in the field of Evaluation?

Panel session with Zenda Ofir, Weronika Felcis, Linda Morra and Rob D. van den Berg

Chair

: Adeline Sibanda

Room: Prague West

Transition 2:

Global and coun- try perspectives

Presentations from Heidi Peterson, Jörg Faust and Kerstin Guffler, Sergio Chávez, Benjamin Kachero

Chair

: Barbora Lateckova

Room: Paris

FCV 2:

Innovation and technology

Presentations from Zounkifirou Mongbet, Samuel Kouakou and Gwendolyn Wellmann

Chair

: Giel Ton

Room: London

G&E 2:

Feminist Evaluation from principles to practice

Panel session with Fabiola Amariles, Nicole Fuhr, Sonal Zaveri, Silvia Salinas Mulder and Svetlana Negroustoueva

Chair

: Nidhi Dubey

Room: Zurich

Prof 2:

Round Table 2 on Strengthening Capacities: Building a career

with Marco Segone, Denis Jobin, Claudia Olavarría, Marie-Hélène Adrien and Anne Bramble

Chair

: Kenza Bennani

Room: Prague East

Environment 2:

Drivers of Sustainability

Presentations from Jindra Cekan & Susan Legro, Trond Norheim, Ellen Fitzpatrick and Martina Greib

Chair

: Neeraj Negi

Room: Amsterdam

17:00 - 18:30

TC 5:

Realist evaluation and evidence curation in climate action

Panel session with Clarissa Samson, Bara Sladkova, Jo Puri, and Sven Harten

Chair

: Bruno Marchal

Room: Prague West

TC 6:

Country perspectives

Presentations from Christopher Mulaudzi, Tamar Iakobidze, Lennise Baptiste and Valerie Gordon

Chair

: Arlene Bailey

Room: Zurich

Transition 3:

Experiences from Czech Republic

Presentations from Michal Horáček, Vladimír Kváča, Veronika Štěpková and Inka Bartošová

Chair

: Daniel Svoboda

Room: Stockholm

FCV 3:

Evaluating Access to Justice and Women's Economic Empowerment in FCV contexts

Panel with Simone Lombar- dini (video), Claire Arnott, Nele Blommestein and Hur Hassnain

Chair

: Rhiannon McHugh

Room: London

G&E 3:

Gender and Climate Change: learning at the global, regional and national levels

with Joe Dickman, Svetlana Negrous- toueva, Jean Mu- kumwa & Josephine Watera.

Chair

: Ray Rist

Room: Paris

Prof 3:

Round Table 4 on Strengthening Capacities: Learning from Experience

with Marie-Hélène Adrien, Andy Rowe, Daniel Svoboda and Lucie Jungwiertová

Chair

: Niels Dabelstein

Room: Prague East

Environment 3:

Adaptation: Lessons from recent experience

Presentations from Timo Leiter, Megan Kennedy-Chouane, Sven Harten and Yogesh Jadhav

Chair

: Anna Viggh

Room: Amsterdam

18:30 - 19:00

Buses will depart for the Residence of the Mayor of Prague

19:30 - 22:00

Welcome reception in the Residence of the Mayor of Prague, including the Award Ceremony for Evaluations for Transformational Change

Regular Programme; Thursday 3rd October, 2019

Time

IDEAS Global Assembly

3^rd International Conference

08:00 - 08:30

Registration

8:30 - 10:00

Keynote address

: Adeline Sibanda, President of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) and independent evaluator, Zimbabwe/South Africa
Evaluation for transformative change: experiences from the Global South

Chair

: Ada Ocampo, UNICEF

Room: Prague Hall

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

TC 7:

Complex Systems-Based Theories of Change

Panel with Johannes Dobinger, Thuy Thu Le, Aaron Zazueta, Minh Hieu Thi, Steffen Kaeser and Nima Bahramalian

Sponsor

: UNIDO

Room: Prague West

TC 8:

Pacific Journeys 1

Panel session on resilient development with Vuki Buadromo and the Pacific Delegation

Sponsor

: MFAT, New Zealand

Room: Zurich

Transition 4:

Institutionalising evaluation in Parliament of Sri Lanka

Presentations from M. Thilakarajah, P. Trikawalagoda and P.K.D. Chamathkara

Chair

: Jana Drlikova

Room: Stockholm

FCV 4:

Vulnerable groups and complex settings

Presentations from Khaled Rajab, Eddah Kanini Kajiri, and Muhammad Humayun Khan

Chair

: Inga-Lill Aronsson

Room: Prague East

Prof 4:

Book session

Panel presenting recent publications from IDEAS, from IFAD, from GEF, and from MFA-FIN, UNICEF and IIED

Chair

: Jörg Faust

Room: Paris

Prof 5:

Round Table 3 on Strengthening Capacities: Latin America

with Emanuel Blanca, Gerardo Sánchez, Helena Stadt- müller, Janett Salvador and Silvia Salinas Mulder

Chair

: Pablo Rodriguez-Billela

Room: London

Environment 4:

Evaluation approaches for assessing cobenefits

With Andy Rowe, Takaaki Miyaguchi, Lisa Keppler & Callum Murdoch, and Jo Puri

Chair

: Carlo Carugi

Room: Amsterdam

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Session 5:

Modern Slavery and Migration

Panel session with Rhiannon McHugh, Iffat Idris (through video), Inga- Lill Aronsson, Humayun Khan and Hur Hassnain

Chair

: Arjan Schuthof

Sponsor

: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Room: Prague East

Session 6:

Evaluation Designs for Transformation: Contradictions and Complement- arities between South and North

Panel session with Jane Burt, Mutizwa Mukutu, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Chimwemwe Msukwa and John Colvin. An Emerald Network and SDG Transformations Forum event.

Sponsor

: UK Government & SDC

Room: Prague West

Session 7:

Young and Emerging Evaluators: taking stock and looking ahead

Panel session with Kenza Bennani, Claudia Olavarría, Gerardo Sánchez- Romero, Alena Lappo, Mafalda Cunha and Fazeela Hoosen and a video message from Taiwo Adesoba

Chair

: Marie-Hélène Adrien

Sponsor

: UNFPA and AfDB

Room: Zurich

Session 8:

Follow-up of the Colombo Declaration of the Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation

Panel session with Natalia Nikitenko (Kyrgyz Republic), Evelyn Mpagi Naome Kaabule (Uganda), Asela Kalugampitiya (GPFE).

Chair

: Marco Segone Opening and closing remarks: Ada Ocampo.

Sponsor

: UNICEF and GPFE

Room: Amsterdam

14:30 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30

TC 9:

Country experiences eval- uating the SDGs

Panel with Ada Ocampo, Anu Saxén (Finland) and Bala Yusuf Yunusa (Nigeria) and Rob D. van den Berg

Chair

: Indran Naidoo

Sponsor

: UNICEF

Room: Prague West

TC 10:

Pacific Journeys 2

Panel session on climate driven human mobility perspectives with the Pacific Delegation and Monica Wabuke

Sponsor

: MFAT, New Zealand & GIZ

Room: Zurich

Transition 5:

Social and Institutional Tools & Analytics

Presentations from Archi Rastogi, Justine Namubiru and Eunsuk Lee

Chair

: Jindra Cekan

Room: Stockholm

Prof 6:

Lightening talks on perspectives for the Thematic groups in IDEAS

Presentations from ITIG leaders

Chair

: Cristina Magro Guests: Malac Kabir and Renata Mirulla

Room: Prague East

Prof 7:

Campfire sessions. Inclusive development and evaluation

With Claire Arnott and “The House is on Fire” with Weronika Felcis and Zenda Ofir

Chair

: Eva Lithman

Room: London

Prof 8:

Role of VOPEs in trans- formational change

Panel with Asela Kalugamptiya, Madri Jansen van Rensburg, Rashmi Agrawal, and Tatiana Tretiakova

Chair

: Silvia Salinas Mulder

Room: Paris

Environment 5:

Blending quantitative with qualitative analysis in understanding change

With Katherine Shea, Prasanth Kotturi, Andrew Brubaker and Anupam Anand

Chair

: Sven Harten

Room: Amsterdam

16:45 - 18:15

Keynote address

: Oscar Garcia, Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome (Bolivia) – Towards transformative change: evaluation in rural development

Chair

: Alison Evans, Director-General Evaluation of the World Bank Group

Room: Prague Hall

18:30 - 21:00

Presentation of communities of practice Eval Earth & Eval Forward, followed at 19:15 with poster presentations and cocktail buffet style reception in Prague

21:00 - 22:00

IDEAS Annual General Meeting (for members only)

Room: Amsterdam

Regular Programme; Friday 4th October, 2019

Time

IDEAS Global Assembly

3^rd International Conference

08:00 - 08:30

Registration

8:30 - 10:00

Joint IDEAS/3^rd International Conference

Keynote Address

: Michael Quinn Patton, Director of Utilization Focused Evaluation (Minnesota, US), on Transforming
Evaluation to Evaluate Transformation: Blue Marble Evaluation Principles

Chair

: Geeta Batra, Deputy Director and Chief Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF

Room: Prague Hall

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

TC 11:

New techniques and tools

Presentations from Karen Odhiambo & Doreen Kaburu, Madri Jansen van Rensburg, James Kakooza, and Umi Hanik

Chair

: Christine Wörlen

Room: Stockholm

TC 12:

Joint Caribbean and Pacific Perspectives

Dialogue between Caribbean and Pacific delegates

Chair

: Ingrid van Aalst

Room: Zurich

TC 13:

Evaluating principles, not impact!

Panel session with Pablo Vidueira, Michael Quinn Patton, Zenda Ofir and Glenn Page

Chair

: Rob D. van den Berg

Room: Prague West

TC 14:

Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment

Panel session with Solomon Asfaw, Archi Rastogi and Marie-Hélène Adrien

Chair

: Jo Puri

Room: Paris

Prof 9:

Challenges and opportunities for YEE

Presentations with Denis Jobin, Josepha Mbia Nguelle, Dulmina Chamathkara and Samuel Kouakou

Chair

: Doha Abdelhamid

Room: London

Prof 10:

Competencies and the International Evaluation Acadmy

With Marie-Claire Luzot, Juha Uitto, Jörg Faust, Bob Picciotto and Rashmi Agrawal, a.o.

Chair

: Linda Morra Imas

Room: Prague East

Environment 6:

Formative and Real-time Evaluation

Panel session with Jo Puri, Joe Dickman and Geeta Batra

Chair

: Andy Rowe

Room: Amsterdam

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

TC 15:

Meta-analysis and synthesis

Presentations from Chita Deshpande, Michael P. Wells, Akaniyene Akpan

Chair

: Bridget Dillon

Room: Zurich

TC 16:

Complex systems, models, and design/evaluation requirements for transformational development

Panel with Jonny Morell and Daniel Kehrer

Chair

: Zenda Ofir

Room: Prague East

TC 17:

Transformation of markets, investments and value chains

Panel session with Fabrizio Felloni, Girma Kumbi and Antonia Dickman

Chair

: Barry Kolodkin

Room: Prague West

TC 18:

Role of evaluation in impact investing

Panel with Jo Puri, Murdoch Callum, Gwendolyn Wellmann and Christine Wörlen

Chair

: Milindo Chakrabarti

Room: Paris

Prof 11:

How evaluation can bring trans- formative change in practice!

With Marco Segone, Michael Quinn Patton, Jordi Delbas and Josep Coll

Sponsor

: UNFPA

Room: Stockholm

Joint Session on the Prague Declaration

Moderated by Rob D. van den Berg, Juha Uitto and Daniel Svoboda
Fine-tuning and finalization

Room: Amsterdam

14:30 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:00

Joint concluding plenary session and Closing Ceremony: Prague Declaration on Evaluation for Transformational Change
Moderation and closing words from Juha I. Uitto and Rob D. van den Berg

Room: Prague Hall

Conference themes and colour code
Evaluation for transformative change (TC)
Evaluating environment & development (3^rd Conference)
Transition experiences and evaluation for systemic changes (Transition)
Evaluation in contexts of fragility, violence & conflict (FCV)
Evaluation on gender & equity (G&E)
Professionalisation (Prof)

Earth-Eval

Catalyzing Transformational Change through Environmental Evaluation

2019 Conference - Program

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