Events

The IPDET 2024 On-Site program will take place in Bern, Switzerland, from July 15 to 26, 2024!

Participants could attend the entire two weeks or just parts:

The Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) are valuable data resources with untapped potential to identify and monitor patterns of health service use and inform health service planning.

In this course, participants will gain:

• An introduction to datasets
• Advice on dealing with some of their specific characteristics
• View worked examples of how datasets can be used.

Who should attend?

Expanding the Bench® is hosting a free Culturally Responsive and Indigenous Evaluation© event presented by Michelle M. Jacob, PhD (Yakama) and Yakama Elder, Carol Craig on July 30th from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET.

Did you know that the Complexity-Aware Monitoring (CAM) Guide is one of THE MOST downloaded resources on the MOMENTUM website? If you’re wondering why so many people find it useful, join us on July 31st from 9:00 - 10:00 AM EDT to learn all about it!

Routine health facility data helps decision-makers better understand facilities’ service readiness, utilization, and quality, enabling evidence-based policy and resource decisions.

This course presents the principles of Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DM&E) cycle. DM&E is a critical element of development projects as it provides the information needed to make decisions for project management, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the interventions and satisfy accountability requirements.

Research conducted with policy partners can have a greater chance of impacting policies, programs and services. But how do early career researchers build these partnerships? How do they manage and sustain them? And how do they get their research findings known and used? Our skills-based training course has been developed to address these questions. It draws on the expertise of senior policy makers and researchers to help early career researchers build the skills required to initiate and sustain research partnerships with policy makers.

Save the date for Asian Evaluation Week 2024: Innovations for Influential Evaluation.

Our training brings together people from a variety of sectors and backgrounds, with varying levels of knowledge and skills in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). For anyone interested in developing their organisation’s M&E capacity and better assessing the impact of their projects, our training provides a great foundation in MEAL.

This September, we’re launching a new edition of our blended learning course on Theory of Change!

Join us for an engaging journey that combines interactive e-learning, live facilitated sessions, personalized coaching, and an innovative online tool designed for Theory of Change development. The course takes place online, with live sessions focusing on honing your facilitation skills for effective Theory of Change workshops.

This course is a collaboration between MDF Training & Consultancy and Changeroo.

The Global Evidence Summit 2024 aims to provide a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural platform, which provides the opportunity for delegates and speakers to exchange ideas about how best to produce, summarise and disseminate evidence to inform policy and practice and use that evidence to improve people’s lives across the world.

Conference theme: Wayfinding

Our CPD-accredited Knowledge Management (KM) online training course is a 7-week programme specifically designed for key personnel in NGOs, government, UN agencies and private sector organisations. You work from the comfort of your own home or office. Designed to fit around your schedule and allow you to learn when you learn best.

You complete the paced course over seven weeks with facilitated, scheduled live meetings, including four fixed-date webinars. You will join a peer group of participants from different organisations and countries. You will provided with the following:

Save the Date

Theme: Transdisciplinarity: Impulses for and through evaluation!?

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.

Abstract submissions close on 20 May 2024, and workshop proposals close on 17 May 2024.

Call for abstracts is now open - Submit a proposal

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim for a better world by 2030 and seek to end poverty, fight inequality, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. The implementation of the SDGs can be accelerated globally through evaluation as a powerful tool that improves public accountability and contributes to positive development change.

The lack of engagement of new and emerging perspectives in the evaluation field threatens diversity, sustainability, and the evolution of evaluation. At Evaluation 2024, we want to uplift these voices and encourage evaluators at all stages in their careers to bring forth new ideas, practices, and creative approaches to evaluation.

The future is now. The next generation of evaluators are here, and their perspectives are vital to our success.

This 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.

Teams of students are presented with a case about the evaluation of a program or policy. They prepare an analysis of the case and develop recommendations for action. A panel of judges reviews and ranks the teams’ submissions. Award winners are announced.

Registration of student teams opens in August.

Purpose of the case competition

To increase awareness among university students about program evaluation.

Key features of the case competition

Would you like to learn how to use Outcome Harvesting? Whether you are completely new to Outcome Harvesting or have some experience but want to learn from highly experienced practitioners, this training is for you. Join Goele Scheers and Richard Smith for this highly participatory training!

Six live sessions of 1-3 hours @ 19.00 CET, plus up to 60 minutes of offline study between sessions. (If this time doesn't suit you, we are also running the same training in May with live sessions at 10.00 CET).

Do you need help with your MEAL plan? To refresh your knowledge, learn techniques and approaches, or develop a Log Frame? We will help you and your organisation to become more effective, by enhancing MEAL practices. Find out how you can advocate for an effective MEAL system so your organization can become more responsive, strategic, and effective by using information and knowledge for evidence-based decision making.

Do you need help with your MEAL plan? To refresh your knowledge, learn techniques and approaches, or develop a Log Frame? We will help you and your organisation to become more effective, by enhancing MEAL practices. Find out how you can advocate for an effective MEAL system so your organization can become more responsive, strategic, and effective by using information and knowledge for evidence-based decision making.

As the 46th annual meeting, the 2024 APPAM Fall Research Conference will be a multi-disciplinary research conference attracting the highest quality research on a wide variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues. The conference is comprised of panels, roundtables, posters, student research and resource sessions, workshops, community gatherings, and special events and is designed to encourage substantive interaction among participants.

Conference theme

Policymaking at the Federal, State, and Local Levels