2015 declared as the International Year of Evaluation

EvalYear, a Global Initiative of Coordinated Local Action

EvalPartners, the global movement to strengthen national evaluation capacities, was proud to announce that 2015 was declared as the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear) at the Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities organized in São Paulo, Brazil, 29 Sep-2 Oct 2013.

The aim of designating 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation was to advocate and promote evaluation and evidence-based policy making at international, regional, national and local levels.

Governments, international partners and civil society need to know how policies and programs shape the lives of people today and in future generations.

EvalPartners facilitated a global dialogue among regional and national evaluation actors, evaluation offices of International Organizations, including UN agencies and the World Bank’s IEG, OECD/DAC and developing countries, private foundations and other key stakeholders.

The aim of the dialogue was to advocate and promote evaluation and evidence-based policy making at international, regional, national and local levels through 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear).

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Since declaring EvalYear in September 2013, many regional and national Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPE) joined the initiative. Many VOPEs included the EvalYear logo on their websites promoting EvalYear. (The EvalYear logo was available in 26 different languages).

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EvalYear Pledge

Declaring 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear)

We, evaluation managers and users from all over the world, declare 2015 as the international year of evaluation

Chiang Mai Declaration

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EvalYear News archives

Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities

The Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, are co-hosting the Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities, 29 September – 2 October 2013 in São Paulo, Brazil. The theme this year will be Solutions to Challenges Related to Independence, Credibility and Use of Evaluation.

This conference will provide an opportunity for an open exchange and direct interaction between national institutions commissioning evaluations, institutions and professionals conducting evaluations and decision makers using evaluations.

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Working with Parliament’s Members to strengthen demand and use of evaluation in public policies

EvalPartners has made strengthening the enabling environment for evaluation a priority, with the aim of increasing the demand and use of good-quality evaluations in public policy decision-making.

In the EvalPartners’ International Forum in Chiang Mai, a Parliamentarian from the Morocco Parliament engaged with the Forum participants, including the responsible for the national evaluation system as well as the President of the Moroccan Evaluation Society, to bridge the gap between demand and supply of evaluation

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UNEG joins EvalPartners in declaring 2015 as International Year of Evaluation

UNEG has decided to join EvalPartners, together and in consultation with evaluation offices of international organizations (including UN agencies, the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), and OECD/DAC Evaluation Network), partners countries, private foundations and voluntary organizations for professional evaluation, in declaring 2015 as International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear).

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Ban Ki-moon: “All of us share a responsibility to strengthen the evaluation function”

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, opening the High Level Meeting on “UN Results: Are we achieving them? How do we know?” on April 16, 2013 stated that “All of us share a responsibility to strengthen the evaluation function. We have to tackle the challenge at several levels”. Ban Ki-moon also shared that he is “very encouraged by the Member States’ support for rigorous evaluation”.

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