GEI Training and Professional Development Programs

Objective(s): bring evaluators, researchers, policymakers and programme managers together to explore the challenges and opportunities in using high-quality evidence to inform decision-making.

Scope: a range of topics related to challenges and opportunities in using high-quality evidence to inform decision-making.

Objective(s): provide a platform for participants to exchange knowledge, share experiences, and learn about the latest innovations in evaluation.

Objective(s): share evidence and discuss what has worked in development, what has not, and why. AfDB Evaluation Week brings together evaluators, government policy/decision-makers, bilateral and multilateral development partners, research and academic institutions, civil society, the private sector, and the staff of the AfDB.

Scope: an international knowledge event organized biennially with a global audience by the Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) function of the AfDB and dedicated to knowledge- and experience-sharing events on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) topics.

Objective(s): equip participants with a better understanding of the potential and underlying challenges, to develop their policy skills for building and managing more productive partnerships with policy actors, and ultimately, to lead better and well-supported policy reforms with high impact.

Objective(s): explore transformation in Evaluation from its historical context in relation to the Global South and how it may relate to equity and social justice, gather local and international speakers in making a contribution to the transformation discourse form a Global South perspective.

Objective(s): train participants so that they are able to explain the concept of public policy and the issues related to its formulation and evaluation in Africa; define key concept of public policy evaluation; develop a theory of change; develop evaluation criteria, questions, and matrix; choose an evaluation design; collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data to answer evaluation questions; and design strategy to support the use of evaluation in decision-making.

Objective(s): provide technical support for the impact evaluations of selected agriculture and rural development projects/programs.

Objective(s): provide participants with a space where they can present and coordinate efforts around the main initiatives for the development of evaluation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Objective(s): provide a safe space for participants to freely exchange experiences, lessons, and ideas on the individual topics

Scope:
- Addressing gender equality, human rights and underrepresented groups in evaluations
- Evaluating the SDGs
- Youth in Evaluation: capacity development and professionalization
- Creating synergies for stronger National Evaluation Capacities

Objective(s): provide high-quality and cost-effective opportunities for YEEs to improve their skills in evaluation.