Use of evaluation for transformational change
Seminario web | En línea
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Organizado por:
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Sobre el evento
Evaluation transcends beyond capturing and valuing evidence for performance management. To ensure systemic transformation in a sustainable fashion, it becomes critical to communicate evaluation findings across value chains of policy implementation. While the Global North has demonstrated the culture of valuing evidence for policy, the needle has not moved as much in the Global South. The challenges get more pronounced in slower moving fields such as climate action. Hence, there lies a need for alternative evaluation methods to capture intangible changes that can help inform policy development and implementation processes. It, thus, becomes critical to understand whether the challenges lie around capacities, practices or culture.
This session intends to conduct a deep dive on challenges and reflections from philanthropies, government and civil society spaces to understand where should efforts be targeted to enhance uptake of evaluative evidence for policy making. The session also intends to explore the role Evaluation Communities could play in permeating an evaluative culture in policy development.
This session intends to conduct a deep dive on challenges and reflections from philanthropies, government and civil society spaces to understand where should efforts be targeted to enhance uptake of evaluative evidence for policy making. The session also intends to explore the role Evaluation Communities could play in permeating an evaluative culture in policy development.
Presentador/a
| Nombre | Título | Biografía |
|---|---|---|
| Mansi Shah | MEL Manager IKEA Foundation | Mansi Shah a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning manager at the IKEA Foundation, where she primarily focuses on grants related to climate action and mitigation, many of which include interventions that target policy influence. Her experience includes managing large scale impact evaluations at J-PAL South Asia, supporting nonprofits in India with their internal measurement systems while working for the Azim Premji Foundation and advising global organizations on their learning and knowledge strategy with Dalberg Global Development Advisors. Mansi is passionate about exploring and implementing the right sized approaches to learning and evidence that the ecosystem needs to tackle the climate emergency. She has an M.A in International Development from the American University in Washington, DC, and a B.A in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. |
| Vivek M Chandran | Director, Climate Insights, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation | Vivek provides leadership and guidance to Shakti’s Climate Insight function, which includes Research and Advisory, Knowledge Management, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. He also leads two other programs—the Cities and Climate Action Programme, and Critical Raw Materials Programme. Vivek has expertise working on policies related to low-carbon growth, electrification of transportation, clean air, city climate action, transit-oriented development, and street design. Prior to joining Shakti in December 2017, Vivek worked at C40 Climate Leadership Group as City Director (Jaipur) and OSD to Jaipur Smart Cities Limited, visiting faculty and researcher at CEPT University, and has also worked with WRI-EMBARQ and Agenda for Bangalore Infrastructure Development (ABIDe). He has a master’s degree in Urban and Transport Planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. |
| Dr. Shishusri Pradhan | Director, EME, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) | Shishusri Pradhan is a Director of Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation (Climate) at CIFF. She oversees evidence development, analysis, measurement, and evaluation of a range of CIFF’s climate change investments across thematic areas such as energy, land use and food systems, cities, litigation, climate and nature finance. She has around 15 years of experience in applied research, programme, evaluation, and policy experience in environment sustainability, climate change, urban development, economic development and has worked in India, Africa, Latin America, and the UK. In evaluation practice her work has focused on the intersection between evaluation, learning, and adaptive management and measurement of programme results and impact. Shishu started her career at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in India working in the climate team, and before joining CIFF, she developed the Environmental sustainability portfolio at Plan International UK, where she was responsible for setting up and evaluating the green portfolio and introducing a ‘Do no harm to the Environment’ key performance indicator for the organisation. |
Moderador/a
| Nombre | Título | Biografía |
|---|---|---|
| Ramanshu Ganguly | Associate Director: MEL | Ramanshu is an Associate Director with the Climate Insights Division at Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and leads the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning within Shakti. Prior to Shakti, Ramanshu was with Sambodhi Research and Communications and he brings on board over 10 years of experience on evaluative research in the space of Climate Smart Agriculture, Energy Access, Natural Resource Management and Systems Transformation. Ramanshu strongly believes for evaluation to serve its purpose, it needs to be an embedded function to programme systems. |