Dialogue with YEE about Evaluation Training and Education
Focus Group
About the Event
Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) represent the evaluation field's future workforce.
The Evalpartners initiative defined YEE as evaluators under 35 years or evaluators who have less than five years of professional experience and have expressed an interest in becoming professional evaluators within the past five years or less (Evalpartners, 2016). In 2015, a Global Network of YEE, EvalYouth Global, was launched and supported by Evalpartners. The initiative's main objectives are:
1) to promote Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) to become competent, experienced, and well-networked professionals who contribute to evaluation capacity at national, regional, and international levels, and
2) to promote the inclusion of young people in evaluations conducted at the national, regional, and international levels
Over the last seven years, this global network has grown and developed, leading to regional and national chapters. The number of current EvalYouth Global followers is estimated at 8,700 YEEs.
The dialogue proposed in a session of Glocal 2022 aims to collect data for research at Claremont Graduate University. The whole study aims to shed light on the discussions about how formal evaluation education programs (FEEP) respond to new challenges in the field of evaluation in a world in transformation. In addition, the discussion aims to explore Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) perspectives regarding transformational change and their interests and needs regarding formal evaluation education as a capacity-building strategy.
The Evalpartners initiative defined YEE as evaluators under 35 years or evaluators who have less than five years of professional experience and have expressed an interest in becoming professional evaluators within the past five years or less (Evalpartners, 2016). In 2015, a Global Network of YEE, EvalYouth Global, was launched and supported by Evalpartners. The initiative's main objectives are:
1) to promote Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) to become competent, experienced, and well-networked professionals who contribute to evaluation capacity at national, regional, and international levels, and
2) to promote the inclusion of young people in evaluations conducted at the national, regional, and international levels
Over the last seven years, this global network has grown and developed, leading to regional and national chapters. The number of current EvalYouth Global followers is estimated at 8,700 YEEs.
The dialogue proposed in a session of Glocal 2022 aims to collect data for research at Claremont Graduate University. The whole study aims to shed light on the discussions about how formal evaluation education programs (FEEP) respond to new challenges in the field of evaluation in a world in transformation. In addition, the discussion aims to explore Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) perspectives regarding transformational change and their interests and needs regarding formal evaluation education as a capacity-building strategy.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Marcia Joppert | Focus Group: YEEs Interests and Needs regarding Evaluation Education | Civil Engineer-USP; MBA-TSM Business School; MPA–ISCTE; Ph.D. Candidate in Evaluation and Applied Research Methods at Claremont Graduate University. 33 years’ experience in consulting. Current Director of the Brazilian M&E Network. Member of the Editorial Board of the Brazilian Evaluation Journal |