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| RECENTLY RELEASED |
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| IOE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL EVENTS |
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| Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Annual Retreat |
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| Oscar A. Garcia, in his capacity of Director IOE and UNEG Vice-Chair for enhancing the use of evaluation in the UN system, is participating in the annual retreat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Mr Garcia will be delivering a presentation on Evaluation function of IFAD: the role of self and independent evaluations. The retreat is taking place on 30 September in The Hague, The Netherlands. |
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| European Evaluation Society 12th Biennial Conference |
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| At the European Evaluation Society12th Biennial Conference, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Johanna Pennarz, IOE Lead Evaluation Officer, participated as a panellist in a discussion on "How Evaluators Can Become Agents of Change: Opportunities and Challenges Arising from the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda". Oscar Garcia, IOE Director, chaired the panel discussion. Ms Pennarz also delivered a presentation on Supporting Learning and Organizational Effectiveness - the Communication Function of IOE. Read more |
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| Australasian Evaluation Society Conference |
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| Fumiko Nakai, IOE Senior Evaluation Officer, delivered a presentation on Contributing to rural poverty reduction through accountability and learning: independent evaluation function at IFAD, which introduced the second edition of the Evaluation Manual, at the 2016 Australasian Evaluation Society Conference in Perth, Australia. Read more |
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| Asian Evaluation Week |
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| During the 2016 Asian Evaluation Week recently held in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Michael Carbon, IOE Senior Evaluation Officer, and Hansdeep Khaira, IOE Evaluation Officer, hosted a session on Smallholder farmer organization and access to markets. In a session hosted by the FAO Evaluation Office, Messrs. Carbon and Khaira delivered a presentation on Bringing evaluation of food security and nutrition closer to policy makers, and in a session hosted by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), a presentation that focused on the use of Theory of Change for assessing the likelihood of environmental impact. Read more |
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| EVALUATION COMMITTEE UPDATES |
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- IOE welcomes the new interim Evaluation Committee Chairperson, Mr Rishikesh Singh, Director (Multilateral Institutions Division), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of India, as of 6 September 2016.
- Mr Jérôme Audin is the new French representative on the Evaluation Committee of IFAD's Executive Board. He attended his first session on 6 September 2016. IOE thanks former representative, Ms Donatienne Hissard, for her valuable contributions to the Committee's work in the past years.
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EVALUATION HIGHLIGHTS AT THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
Evaluation documents reviewed during the September session of the Executive Board included the country programme evaluations for China, Indonesia and Turkey, and the 2016 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations (ARRI), which was especially mentioned as a high quality and informative report. In a joint statement, the Member States recognized IOE's work and shared their "appreciation for the independence of IOE, which has such a positive impact on improving IFAD's performance."
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