International Year of Evaluation 2015

Getting prepared to celebrate 2015 Evaluation Year As we get ready to launch 2015, the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear), we are inviting evaluators, managers and policy makers from all over the world to celebrate evaluation and the way we have linked with one another to promote the demand, supply and use of equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluation in policy and program decisions. We are creating a visible master calendar that will be published on the EvalPartners website, of gatherings on evaluation during 2015 in every part of the world.

List of events in which the “Evaluation torch” will be passed to discuss four themes:

Identifying the key future priorities for the global evaluation community to launch the 2016-2020 Global Evaluation Agenda;
Bridging the gap between the evaluation community (supply side) and the policy makers community (demand side), including Parliamentarians, to ensure good quality, equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations are demanded and used in policy making;
Mainstreaming equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations in Sustainable Development Goals at international level, and in national development strategies at national level;
Developing equity-focused and gender-responsive National Evaluation policies.

#	Event	Dates	Location	Organizer	Links/ Remarks
1	Evaluation Capacity Building Seminar in Central Asia	11 December 2014	Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic	National Monitoring and Evaluation Network of the Kyrgyz Republic, Monitoring and Evaluation Community of Practice of Tajikistan, Washington Evaluators	Contact person: Tatiana Tretiakova
2	Celebration for official adoption of the UN resolution on evaluation	17 December 2014	UN building, New York;	UNEG	Contact person: Marco Segone
3	India Evaluation Week	19-23 January 2015	Delhi, India	IAMR and Planning Commission of India	Contact person: Dr. Rashmi Agrawal
4	IDRC- Series of EvalYear speaker/ panel events: Evaluating the Impact of Climate change; Lessons from Gender Evaluation; Impact Evaluation; Evaluation field-building in the South; Evaluating Rule of Law	6 February to 30 November 2015	Ottawa and Montreal Canada	International Development Research Centre	Contact person: Colleen Duggan
5	1 ^ERE Journées Ivoiriennes de l’Evaluation (JiE 2015)	09-10 et 11 février 2015	Abidjan, Côte d’ Ivoire	Réseau Ivoirien de Suivi et d’Evaluation (RISE)	Contact person: Mamadou Coulibaly Le thème principal: L’evaluation au Coeur des enjeux de l’emergence
6	EvalMENA General Assembly	23-26 February 2015	Cairo, Egypt	EvalMENA Network	Contact person: Ziad Moussa
7	IAPE 13^th Annual Conference on Advocacy for Evaluation	2^nd March 2015	Mandel Institute for Leadership in Beer Sheva Israel	The Israeli Association for Program Evaluation (IAPE)	Contact person: Dr. Barbara Rosenstein
8	ReLAC 4^th International Conference	9-13 March 2015	Lima, Peru	Latin-American and Caribbean Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization Network (RELAC)	Please Visit Contact person: Ada Ocampo
9	Uganda Evaluation Week	10-13 March 2015	Uganda	The Government of Uganda represented by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Evaluation in partnership with the Uganda Evaluation Association	Contact person: Albert Byamugisha
10	UNEG Evaluation Week	9-13 March 2015	New York, USA	United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)	Contact person: Marco Segone
11	Brown Bag: Evaluation Capacity Building Program in Central Asia	17 March 2015	Washington, USA	Washington Evaluators	Contact person: David Bernstein
12	New Zealand’s government-led initiative for the International Year of Evaluation	18 March 2015	Wellington, New Zealand	Organizational Evaluation team of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (the NZ Prime Minister’s Office) is co-sponsoring.	Contact person: Matilde Tayawa
13	SAMEA, WSG & CLEAR AA officially launch the International Year of Evaluation in South Africa	19 March 2015	University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg	South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA), WSG & CLEAR AA	Contact person: Michael Leslie
14	Conference on taking responsibility in M&E for systemic change	19-20 March 2015	Wageningen, The Netherlands	Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University and Research centre	Theme: “Monitoring and Evaluation for Responsible Innovation & quot Contact person: Cecile Kusters
15	The launch of EvalYear in Mauritania	31 March 2015	Nouakchott, Mauritania	Association Mauritanienne de Suivi-Evaluation (Mauritania Evaluation Network)	Contact person: Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall
16	Webinar – Future opportunities and challenges for evaluation at UNDP	1 April 2015	Virtual	Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP and the Fletcher School	Please Visit Contact person: ieo@undp.org
17	Webinar – Emerging challenges for equity focused and gender responsive evaluation	8 April 2015	Virtual	Independent Evaluation Office of UN Women and the Fletcher School	Please Visit Contact person: Florencia Tateossian
18	Launch of the International Year for Evaluation in Madagascar	17 April 2015	Antananarivo, Madagascar	Madagascar Evaluation Society (MASSE)	The event will coincide two weeks French version of IPD E and the official launch of the development of a National Policy document forEvaluation in Madagascar Contact person: Bali Andriantseheno
19	Italian Evaluation Association annual conference	17-18 April 2015	Genoa, Italy	Italian Evaluation Association (AIV)	Theme: “Evaluation and Social Equity. Evaluation as a public policy change mechanism to fight against social inequalities.” Contact person: Mita Marra
20	A high level panel discussion and reception to promote EvalYear 2015	21 April 2015	Vienna, Austria	Vienna based UN agencies together with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact person: Katherine Aston
21	Opening Session of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society	26 April 2015	Galloway, New Jersey, USA	Eastern Evaluation Research Society	Contact person: Cheryl M. Ackerman
22	Danish Government EvalYear event: “Policy and Practice of Danida Evaluation”	11 May 2015	Copenhagen, Denmark	Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Contact person: Sus Ulbaek
23	UK Evaluation Society Conference	13 and 14 May 2015	London, UK	UK Evaluation Society	Please Visit
24	Nirun Sahingiray International Forum on Measurement and Evaluation in Non-profit Organizations	14 May 2015	Istanbul, Turkey	Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey with cooperation of Harvard University	Contact person: Suat Kardas
25	“Sistemas de Protección e Inclusión Social en América Latina”	21 de mayo	Buenos Aires, Argentina	la Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social conjuntamente con el Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, la Organización Iberoamericana de Seguridad Social y la Universidad Tres de Febrero	Contact person: Irene Novacovsky
26	Development Evaluation National Forum	22-23 May 2015	Rabat (Morocco)	Moroccan Evaluation Association	Contact person: Jamal Ramdane
27	Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) conference	24-27 May 2015	Montreal, Canada	Canadian Evaluation Society (CES)	Theme: Evaluation for the- world we want Contact person: Marie Gervais
28	The Jordan Evaluation Days	26- 28 May 2015	Amman, Jordan	EvalJordan	Contact person: Amjad Attar
29	AfDB – IDEV event titled “Development Evaluation -Development Effectiveness”.	28 May 2015	Abidjan	Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) – African Development Bank	Contact person: Jayne Musumba
30	Convención Anual de la Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Evaluación	30 de mayo de 2015	San Juan, Puerto Rico	La Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Evaluación	Please Visit Persona contacto: María del R. Medina
31	Seminario de Introducción a la Evaluación de Políticas Púbicas	1 de junio de 2015	Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico	La Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Evaluación	Please Visit Persona contacto: María del R. Medina
32	Czech Evaluation Society Annual Conference	9 June 2015	Prague, Czech Republic	Czech Evaluation Society	Theme: ” New opportunities with respect to evaluations” : Contact person: Inka Pibilova
33	Conference on Evidence to practice – How NGOs can benefit from impact studies	9 June 2015	Bern, Switzerland	Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC	A series of activities including an Impact Study Award. Contact person: Hans Rudolf Felber
34	Conference: The future of training and further education in evaluation	11-12 June 2015	Saarbrücken, Germany	Master of Evaluation (MEval), Saarland University and University of Applied Sciences, Saarbrücken	The Conference is held in German Contact person: Sandra Schopper Birgit Schneider
35	Congreso Internacional “Evaluación y Rendición de Cuentas para la Transparencia Democrática” & IX Conferencia Bienal Internacional de la SEE	11 y 12 de junio de 2015	Sevilla, España	Sociedad Española de Evaluación de Políticas Públicas	Please Visit Contacto: SEE
36	DAC Evaluation Network meeting	15-16 June	Paris, France	DAC Network on Development Evaluation, OECD	Contact person: Hans Lundgren
37	Mexico Evaluation Week	15-19 June 2015	Mexico City, Mexico	The CLEAR Center; The Mexican Agency for International Development; National Academy of Evaluators, The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy.	Contact person: Cristina Galíndez and Janett Salvador
38	Journées Françaises de l’Evaluation	18-19 juin 2015	Montpellier, France	Société Française de l’Evaluation	Contact person: Jean Marie Loncle Le thème principal: Evaluer pour évoluer,et réciproquement!
39	DFID´s first 2015 Year of Evaluation event	18 June 2015	London, UK	Department for International Development, UK	Theme: “Maximising the Value of Evaluations – Using Evidence to Learn and Adapt” Contact person: David Rinnert
40	Speakers Lunch, Celebration of EvalYear at IPDET	24 June 2015	Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada	International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)	Please Visit email
41	Media Dialogue in EvalYear in Ghana	25 June 2015	Ghana	Ghana M&E Forum (GMEF) with UNICEF – Ghana	Contact person: Clemens Gros, Dede Bedu-Addo abedums@gmail.com
42	Symposium: Evaluation as a strategic element for the effectiveness of public policies, programs and projects	26 June 2015	Managua, Nicaragua	Nicaraguan Network in Monitoring and Evaluation (ReNicSE) and Institute of Administration and Public Policies /UNI	Contact person: Eduardo Centeno (centeno.eduardo @gmail.com)
43	National launch of EvalYear in Ghana followed by regional forums on EvalYear in three regions and a policy dialogue	2 July 2015	Ghana	Ghana M&E Forum (GMEF) with UNICEF – Ghana	Contact person: Clemens Gros, Dede Bedu-Addo
44	Colloquium of state and the evaluation community	2 July 2015	Santiago, Chile	Red de Seguimiento, Evaluación y Sistematización de Latinoamerica y el Caribe, in Chili. (RELAC_Ch)	Contact person: Andrea Peroni
45	The Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association Conference	6-9 July 2015	Auckland – New Zealand	The Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association	Theme: ‘Navigating Evaluation : Making waves in Aotearoa and -across the Pacific“. Contact person: Kate McKegg
46	Regional Colloquium on the evaluation of public policies Theme : “Building together the evaluation of tomorrow”	07 – 09 July 2015	Cotonou – Rep of Benin	Ministry of Evaluation of Public Policies, Promotion of Good Governance and Social Dialogue in partnership with UNDP, CLEAR AFRICA, UNICEF and 3IE	Contact person: Mirianaud Oswald Agbadome The event will host the Francophone Dialogue on the Evaluation Capacity Development in Africa
47	Seminario Internacional: La Contribución de la Evaluación al Desarrollo en América Latina, Diálogo entre Política y Evaluación	15-17 Julio de 2015	Centro de Investigación y Capacitación en Administración Pública (CICAP), San José, Costa Rica	Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Universidad del Sarre, Alemania (UdS)	Contacto: Olman Villarreal Guzman Carolina Zúñiga Zamora
48	Wilton Park event on New Frontiers for Evaluation in an era of market oriented development	20-22 July 2015	Wilton Park Conference Centre, West-Sussex, UK	Wilton Park and the Centre for Development Impact	Contact person: Susan Bruce
49	EvalYear celebrations at the Annual General Meeting of the APNODE	23 – 24 July 2015	Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire	African Parliamentarians’ Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE)	Contact person: Jayne Musumba, E-mail
50	Evaluation day – “EvalCafé”	1 August 2015	Yaounde, Cameroon	Cameroonian Community of Evaluators	Contact person: Serge Eric Yakeu
51	Consultation with East Asian Parliamentarians in Strengthening Evaluation Function in National Development Agenda	10-11 August 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	PFDE, UNICEF, UN Women, EvalPartners	Contact person: Ada Ocampo
52	10th Conference of the Latin-American and the Caribbean Network on Monitoring and Evaluation (REDLACME)	2-4 September 2015	Panama City, Panama	REDLACME, The Inter-American Development Bank; the World Bank; and the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America	Contact person: Roberto García López
53	Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) and Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN) conference	3-4 September 2015	University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland	Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) and Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN)	Contact Person: Craig Russon or Claude Hilfiker SEVAL Annual Conference
54	Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) conference	5-9 September 2015	Melbourne, Australia	Australasian Evaluation Society	Theme: Reaching across boundaries Contact person: Bill Wallace
55	Ethiopian Monitoring and Evaluation Association 2nd General Assembly	6-7 September 2015	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	Ethiopian Monitoring and Evaluation Association	Contact person: Habtamu Tesfaye
56	ZEA Regional Conference and Workshops	14-18 September 2015	Harare, Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe Evaluation Association	Contact person: Adeline Sibanda
57	ADB learning event entitled ” Think Sustainable, Act Responsible ”.	15-16 September 2015	Manila, Philippines	Asian Development Bank	Contact person: Vinod Thomas
58	SLEvA International Conference 2015	15-18 September 2015	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Evaluation Association	Please Visit Contact person: K. Romeshun
59	Consultation with Latin American Parliamentarians in Strengthening Evaluation Function in Post Development Agenda	17-18 September 2015	Parlatino, Panama City, Panama	PFDE, UNICEF, UN Women, CLEAR, EvalPartners	Contact person: Ada Ocampo
60	International Programme Evaluation Network (IPEN) conference	23-25 September 2015	Kiev, Ukraine	International Programme Evaluation Network	Contact person: Natalia Kosheleva
61	Conference entitled ‘’Evaluating for Growth: Introducing the Hellenic Evaluation Society’’	24 September 2015	Athens, Greece	Hellenic Evaluation Society	Contact person: E-mail, Dimitra Ioannou Website
62	Polish Evaluation Society Conference	27-29 September 2015	Krakow, Poland	Polish Evaluation Society with the Polish Ministry of Regional Development and the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development	Please Visit Contact person: Weronika Felcis
63	Joint conference: Making effective use of evaluations in an increasingly complex world	30 September 2015	Paris, France	UNESCO, OECD, French Evaluation Society, European Evaluation Society	Further information: Please Visit
64	Iberoamerican meeting on institutionalizing evaluation in the public sector	30 September to 2 October 2015	Cartagena de Indias, Colombia	Spanish Cooperation Secretaría General de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo División de Evaluación de Políticas para el Desarrollo y Gestión del Conocimiento	Contact person: Paula Caballero
65	International Conference on institutionalizing the evaluation in public policies	5-6 October 2015	Rabat, (Morocco)	National Observatory of Human Development, in partnership with the United Nations in Morocco	Contact: National Observatory of Human Development (ONDH) Contact: El Mansouri El Hassan Link
66	Moroccan Evaluation Week	7-10 October 2015	Rabat (Morocco)	Moroccan Evaluation Association	Contact person: Jamal Ramdane
67	SAMEA’s 5^th Biennial Conference	12-16 October 2015	Hilton Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg	South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA)	Contact person: Jennifer Bisgard Theme: Using evaluation to improve people’s lives
68	CEI EvalYear Conference 2015	14-15 October, 2015	Montego Bay, Jamaica	Caribbean Evaluators International	Contact Person: Meegan Scott Theme: Evaluating Development, Evolving Possibilities
69	Training programme on National Evaluation societies	19-31 October 2015	Antwerp, Belgium	The Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp	Contact person: Sara Dewachter
70	National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) conference	26-30 October 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	UNDP in partnership with UNEG and EvalPartners	Contact person: Ana Rosa Monteiro Soares
71	IDEAS Global Assembly	26-30 October 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	IDEAS	Contact person: Rob D. Van Den Berg
72	First Regional Conference of Evaluators of Western Balkan	28-29 October 2015	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Western Balkan Evaluation Network and Evaluation Society of Bosnia & Herzegovina	Contact person: Dr. Irena Ðokic Bojan Radej
73	RASPPE Annual Conference	29-31 October 2015	Moscow, Russia	Russian Association of Specialists in Program and Policy Evaluation	Please Visit Contact person: Alexey Kuzmin
74	Launch of Zambia Evaluation Association and EvalYear Celebration	3 November 2015	Lusaka, Zambia	Ministry of Finance and Zambia Evaluation Association	Contact person Victor Mabika
75	International conference on Education Evaluation: to ensure quality and development	4-5 Nov 2015	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Public Education Evaluation Commission (PEEC)	Please Visit Contact person Dr. May Alobaidy
76	AfDB Development Evaluation Week	6 and 9-11 November	Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire	Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) – African Development Bank	Contact person: Felicia Avwontom
77	American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference	9-14 November 2015	Chicago, USA	American Evaluation Association	Theme: Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World: Learning from Evaluation’s Successes Around the Globe Contact person: Dr. Stewart Donaldson
78	Celebrating EvalYear during the Evaluation Week with the end of year session of the Parliament and the Senate of Cameroon	9 – 13 November 2015	Yaoundé Conference Center	Cameroon Development Evaluation Association (CaDEA)	Contact person: Debazou Yantio
79	Workshop on Policy Evaluation with celebration of EvalYear	12-13 November 2015	Belgrade, Serbia	Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) together with Austrian Institute for SME Research and the Government of Serbia	Contact person: Dragiša Mijačić
80	1st international conference of NAE	16-17 November 2015	Abuja, Nigeria	Nigerian Association of Evaluators	Contact person: Florence Etta
81	Two-day technical seminar on “Enhancing the evaluability of Sustainable Development Goal 2	17-18 November 2015	IFAD in Rome, Italy	Evaluation Offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR	Contact person: Melba Alvarez
82	Welsh Evaluation Conference	16-20 November 2015	Welsh Government Offices: Cardiff, Llandudno Junction and Aberystwyth	Welsh Government with support from Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD), Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW), and the Social Research Association.	Contacts: Faye Gracey, Chris Roberts, Jamie Smith, Richard Thurston
83	20th Anniversary Celebrations of Operations Evaluation at the European Investment Bank.	23-26 November 2015	Luxembourg	Inspectorate General, Operations Evaluation, European Investment Bank	Contact person: Claudia Monti
84	Community of Evaluators South Asia (CoE-SA) Evaluation Conclave (in the context of Global EvalYear event)	23-27 November 2015	Kathmandu, Nepal	Community of Evaluators South Asia (CoE-SA)	Contact person: Mallika Samaranayake
85	Global EvalYear Event which includes EvalPartners 2^nd Global Forum	23-27 November 2015	Kathmandu, Nepal	EvalPartners, IOCE, UN Women, CoE-SA, PFDE, CoE Nepal, Parliament of Nepal, National Planning Commission of Nepal, UNEG	Please Visit Contact person: Marco Segone
86	2015 Brazilian Monitoring and Evaluation Network Seminar	25 – 27 November 2015	Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil	Brazilian Monitoring and Evaluation Network and Fundação João Pinheiro	Contact person: Marcia Paterno and Breynner OliveiraTheme: Diversity in Evaluation: Multiple Perspectives and Approaches
87	Evaluation Forum at US Department of State	2 December 2015	George C. Marshall Conference Center, Washington, DC	U.S. Department of State	Contact person: Eileen Cronin
88	Morocco Evaluation Week 2015	8-10 December 2015	Marrakesh, Morocco	Moroccan Evaluation Association (Association Marocaine de l’Evaluation)	Contact person: Mouna EL Ghormli
89	The 13^th ODA Evaluation Workshop	9-10 December 2015	Tokyo, Japan	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan	Contact person : Naomi Aoki
90	Bhutan Evaluation Conference “Evaluation for Sustainable Development and Gross National Happiness”	11 December 2015	Thimphu, Bhutan	Evaluation Association of Bhutan	Contact person : Kezang
91	The promotional event for Good Monitoring and Evaluation practices in Republic of Macedonia	21 December 2015	Skopje, Macedonia	Macedonian Evaluation Network	Contact person : Risto Ivanov
92	EvalYear Celebration in Pakistan	30 and 31 December 2015	Islamabad, Pakistan	UNICEF Pakistan	Contact person : Mussarrat Youssuf