IDEAS-RELAC Joint Conference
Bogotá, Colombia May 2007
Development evaluation: meeting the
challenges of learning, ownership,
accountability and impact
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IDEAS
• The International Development Evaluation
Association: an independent global association of
evaluators and those interested in evaluation,
established in 2002, now with over 400 members
from some 70 countries.
• IDEAS Mission is “to improve and extend the
practice of development evaluation by refining
knowledge, strengthening capacity, and expanding
networks for development evaluation, particularly in
developing and transition countries”.
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ReLAC
• The Network of Monitoring, Evaluation and
Systematization in Latin America and the Caribbean:
created in 2003 is made up of 14 networks of
evaluators.
• ReLAC’s mission is to “strengthen the role of
monitoring, evaluation and systematization as a
fundamental social and political process aimed at
improving policies, programs, and projects and at
pursuing increased transparency and citizen
participation”.
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Biennial Conferences
• IDEAS policy is to hold a conference every two years
• First was in New Delhi (2004) and addressed
“Evaluation for Development – Beyond Aid”
• ReLAC also held its first Conference in 2004 (Sao
Paulo) on the theme “Evaluation, Democracy and
Governance: Challenges for Latin America and the
Caribbean”
• Both were professionally and financially successful
• Success came from sound preparation, substantial
participation and the generosity of several donors
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Conference Outcomes
• For IDEAS: a recognition that the environment for
development evaluation is changing:
– growing concern with the effectiveness of public
expenditure in the pursuit of development goals
– new stakes
– new stakeholders, affecting development evaluation
• For ReLAC: desire to stress the links between:
– evaluation and public action
– evaluation and good governance
– and to promote citizen participation in evaluation of
public sector performance
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Changing Stakes
• Economic growth increasingly linked to:
– Greater security
– Greater equity
– Greater empowerment
• Development increasingly linked to:
– Greater focus on results
– Greater accountability
– Greater harmonisation and greater
cooperation
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Changing Stakeholders
• Greater role for ‘public action’ to advance
human rights and human development.
• ‘Public’ is more than government action or
actions by the public sector but includes
action by people and communities.
• ‘Public action’ interpreted as a global
partnership for development.
• New forms of partnerships and coalitions
with different stakeholders.
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Implications: the field of
Development Evaluation needs to…
• Broaden its scope to assess policy, policy
coherence and development outcomes
• Move away from narrow donor-led
evaluations and make evaluation central to
the development process
• Use evaluation to make development actions
more relevant to the people they are to help
• Strengthen evaluation as an instrument of
public action
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Goals of the Joint Conference
• To foster a global dialogue among evaluators, policy
and decision makers
• To expand ownership in evaluation by including
representatives of civil society, the public sector and
the international community
• To discuss innovative, more effective and more
efficient ways of conducting and using evaluation to
improve development processes and achieve
development objectives
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Objectives of the Conference
• To provide an opportunity for evaluators and
partners of each Association to present practical
evidence, or research on ways of enhancing
learning, ownership, accountability and impacts
through evaluation
• As a joint activity, to promote awareness of the role
of evaluation associations and networks in:
– strengthening public action through evaluation
– strengthening evaluation capacities at the national
and regional levels
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Association Objectives
• To build understanding and foster partnership
between IDEAS and ReLAC and other national
evaluation associations. And,
• For IDEAS: To continue the process initiated in
Delhi, and followed in its two regional workshops on
CLE (Prague and Niamey) of advancing thinking and
practice on how to broaden the scope and deepen
the quality of evaluation for accountability and
impact at the country level.
• For RELAC: to build upon its 2004 Conference and
further thinking on the links between evaluation,
democracy and governance.
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Conference Streams
• Development Evaluation as an instrument of
democracy, public action and citizen
participation
• Country-Led Evaluation: experiences and
perspectives
• Role of networks and associations in building
national and regional evaluation capacities
• Professionalization of evaluation: approaches
and experiences
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Conference Streams
• Use of evaluation for accountability, learning
and measuring impact
• Role of the International Cooperation
Agencies in development evaluation
• Development Evaluation and Evaluation
Partnerships: traditional and new
stakeholders
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Location & Schedule 2007
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BOGOTA, Columbia, May 2007
May 1: Keynote Address and registration
May 2-3: Joint Conference
May 4-5: Post-Conference training and
workshops
• Call for Papers and for Workshops:
November 25th 2006
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Planning Assumptions
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Attendance of 300 plus
No meals, only coffee morning and afternoon
No exceptions to conference fees
All travel by lowest cost options
Full time coordinator for six months
Steering Committee made up from both
Associations with sub-committees for
program, budget etc
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Draft Conference Budget (US$)
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Preparation
Facilities
Simultaneous translation (3 lang)
IDEAS Board travel
ReLAC travel
Guest Speakers (travel etc)
Training workshops
Hospitality
Consumables
Conference Report and CD
Combined Administration
Communications
Contingencies @ 10%
Total
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30,000
20,000
40,000
36,000
8,000
39,000
20,000
8,000
13,000
28,000
20,000
3,000
26,000
291,000
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Conference Fees and Bursaries
• Conference fees will be $500 per head for all
participants
• Training workshop fees will be $250 per
participant
• ReLAC intends to offer small grants to each
of its networks for at least two participants
• IDEAS intends to offer all inclusive bursaries
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Funding Needs
• Funds are sought:
– to enable the two Associations to organize
and execute the conference: $145,000 each
• ReLAC seeks about $112,000 to cover its
participation grants
• IDEAS seeks funding for about 30 “all in”
bursaries at $5,000 each
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