Events

Our 8-week online Project Monitoring Techniques course brings together tried and tested techniques to design relevant Real-Time Monitoring systems for adaptive projects and programmes. By learning how data and information can help make evidence-based decisions, staff will have the enthusiasm to gather, analyse and use information in their projects while providing quality ongoing formative evaluation for organisation policy makers.

Our ToC course gives you the opportunity to improve knowledge and skills on how social change happens and your contribution to it, using a Theory of Change lens. It will provide you with innovative tools to plan, deliver and review how projects, programmes and other activities can help make change happen. This course enables you to develop skills that will help you work with partners to design compelling projects that deliver sustainable social change.

Why choose this training course:

This Monitoring, Evaluation Accountability and Learning online course is an 8-week programme specifically designed for development workers in NGOs, government, UN agencies and private sector organisations.

What you will learn:

This KM online course is a 7-week programme specifically designed for key personnel in NGOs, government, UN agencies and private sector organisations.

What you will learn:

• Develop a culture that harnesses the know-how and experience of your people
• Make knowledge accessible to everyone who needs it, by building knowledge sharing (KS) into everyday operations
• Use knowledge management (KM) to achieve and support your strategic objectives

Course fee: £1400

We're excited to announce a special Footprint Evaluation Initiative webinar that marks the launch of the "Sustainability-inclusive evaluation: Why we need it and how to do it" guide.

Our face-to-face course Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation will support you in designing your impact evaluations more effectively using a contribution analysis approach.

Contribution analysis is better able to address real-world challenges than traditional impact evaluation methods. Consisting of a stepwise, iterative process of refining theory of change, where mixed method research designs are used to verify critical and contested assumptions.

Who is this course for?

Led by Professor Ruth Garside and expert researchers, join colleagues working in health research across multi-disciplinary boundaries, clinicians and academics, guided by world-class research professionals, to build on your experience of Systematic Reviews and knowledge of Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.

The programme is detailed on the website but you can expect:

Building on the success of its previous three Conferences, and as part of its 20^th anniversary celebrations, the GEF Independent Evaluation Office is gathering distinguished speakers and participants for two days of intensive discussions on the theme of integration between environmental domains, and between environmental and socioeconomic and policy domains, and what this means for evaluation.

Theme: Technology and innovation in evaluation practice in Africa: The last nail in the coffin of participatory approaches

Abstract submissions are currently open.

The theme for the Eastern Evaluation Research Society’s 2024 Annual Conference (#EERS24) is: Reality, Risk, and Resilience: Reimagining Evaluation.

The conference will take place virtually on Thursday, April 18 and Friday, April 19, 2024. A description of the conference theme can be found here.

The conference registration fee is $160.  A reduced rate of $60 is available for students, and an early bird rate of $125 will be offered up to April 1, 2024.​

Renewal and Confluence: Navigating the Future of Evaluation

The 2024 National Conference is an opportunity to come together to renew, where ideas will flow and contribute to collective progress (confluence).

Calling all evaluation professionals! Join us for the Canadian Evaluation Society's National Conference, where we explore the theme of "Renewal and Confluence: Navigating the Future of Evaluation."

This event promises insightful sessions, renowned speakers and networking opportunities.

Tentative dates: June 4th - 8th

Location and further details to be announced. 

The world is in a state of polycrisis, facing urgent challenges like environmental degradation, social injustice, and economic instability. These complex issues require new approaches beyond siloed, linear thinking. Collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and perspectives is essential to develop innovative, inclusive solutions.