From COVID-19 to Climate Change: Transformational Evaluations for Global Crises
Roundtable
About the Event
To bring evaluation evidence, for example the work of the Transformations Forum or Blue Marble Evaluation (food systems), to shift evaluation paradigms to transformational change at the system level.
In this time of deep international uncertainty around the spread of and response to COVID 19, there will be opportunities for system change and large scale transformation that will could have positive impacts in responding to climate change. For example when international air travel restarts there could be opportunities for reducing emissions through regulations and taxations
This discussion will be framed not only in conventional approaches like the Anthropocene and the SDGs, but also within the emerging stronger focus on complex systems and transformational change, perpetuated by the triple shock of intersecting health, financial and economic crises.
It will have a global focus reflecting on global responsibilities and approaches rather than on a particular part of the world.
In this time of deep international uncertainty around the spread of and response to COVID 19, there will be opportunities for system change and large scale transformation that will could have positive impacts in responding to climate change. For example when international air travel restarts there could be opportunities for reducing emissions through regulations and taxations
This discussion will be framed not only in conventional approaches like the Anthropocene and the SDGs, but also within the emerging stronger focus on complex systems and transformational change, perpetuated by the triple shock of intersecting health, financial and economic crises.
It will have a global focus reflecting on global responsibilities and approaches rather than on a particular part of the world.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Robin Hart | Senior Programme Director | Robin is Senior Programme Director at Wilton Park focusing on a wide range of issues including climatic change, education and skills and the climate-health-nutrition-food production / agricultural nexus. |
| Alison Evans | Director-General, Evaluation | Alison Evans, a United Kingdom national, assumed her position as Director-General, Evaluation at the World Bank Group on January 3, 2019. Before her current role, Dr. Evans was the Chief Commissioner of the UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) based in London, England. |
| Zenda Ofir | Acting President | . |
| Rob D. van den Berg | Professor | Rob D. van den Berg is Visiting Professor at King’s College London, Honorary Associate at the Institute of Development Studies, Past President of IDEAS and a member of the Advisory Council of Wilton Park. |
| Oscar A. Garcia | Director of the Independent Evaluation Office | Oscar A. Garcia is the Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Appointed to the role in 2020, Mr. Garcia is responsible for providing strategic direction, thought leadership and credible evaluations in advancing UNDP’s work. |
| Silvia Salinas Mulder | President | . |
| Ali Sheikh | Former CEO | Mr. Ali Sheikh is the former CEO of LEAD Pakistan, an Islamabad-based think tank specializing on climate change and development. |
| Adeline Sibanda | Co-Chair | . |