GEI Sponsoring Public Sector Partners to Attend National Evaluation Capacities Conference

The NEC Conference offers opportunities for learning, knowledge exchange and relationship-building to help attendees support the development of effective evaluation systems on the national level. The focus of this year’s conference, happening October 25-28 in Turin, Italy, is Resilient National Evaluation Systems for Sustainable Development.

This year’s goal is to emphasize how strong national evaluation systems are essential for countries to “build forward better” and how these systems help them get back on track toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A unique feature of the NEC Conference is the level of engagement it offers its primary target audiences: government officials from national and sub-national institutions, who are directly and indirectly engaged with M&E and public policy. Government participants, representing about a third of conference attendees, play a critical role in strengthening national evaluation capacities. The NEC conference offers a special opportunity for them to come together and share their experiences, challenges, and goals with their peers from other countries. Other important M&E stakeholders also attend the conference, including those from the private sector, civil society, academia, UN agencies and other international organizations, and others from the wider global M&E community.

“GEI will be bringing many of our public sector partners to attend the NEC conference and take advantage of the unique knowledge sharing and relationship-building that this conference provides. The conference provides attendees with an opportunity to build a sense of common purpose and give their work momentum,” said Dugan Fraser, Program Manager, GEI

GEI is pleased to be sponsoring the attendance of public sector officials from 23 countries including Bhutan, Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Pakistan, Republic of Congo, São Tomé and Principe, Solomon Islands, St. Lucia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Burkina Faso. Officials represent a variety of government ministries including the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Economic Planning, Development and Public Sector Reforms, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, the Office of the Prime Minister and the Gross National Happiness Commission, among others.

The conference offers multiple spaces for engagement. Proceedings will comprise a mix of plenary sessions combined with parallel session on a range of themes/topics. Formats will range from plenary deliveries to innovative arrangements facilitating informal discussion and exchange of experience among participants. The one-day in-person training workshops will focus on the most pressing development challenges and how evaluation responds to them. Participants will have the opportunity to explore subjects in-depth, under the guidance of experts from around the world and across the evaluation community.

To learn more about the conference and how to attend virtually, please visit the NEC Conference webpage.