gLOCAL 2023 Opening Event: The Future of M&E: Culture, Context, and Collaboration
Panel Discussion | Online
About the Event
**This event will have interpretation in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.**
This year’s theme of gLOCAL Evaluation Week is: The Future of M&E: Culture, Context and Collaboration. The opening panel zooms in on two sets of questions dividing the panel into two complementary parts.
The first part focuses on the institutionalization of M&E in public policy systems. Considering the evolution in national M&E systems in recent years in different parts in the world, going forward what are the main opportunities and challenges for strengthening the institutionalization of M&E in public policy? How can we develop resilient M&E systems that can withstand and outlast institutional uncertainties and volatilities?
The second part of the session goes deeper into the practice of evaluation. What changes in the way evaluative evidence is being generated do we foresee? What are opportunities and challenges for using data and methods for making evaluative evidence more robust but also more useful and accessible for decision makers and other evaluation stakeholders? How can culturally responsive evaluation principles be usefully integrated with (universally considered) good (scientific) principles of evaluation research?
Both segments will include lightning talks by the panelists and space for discussion among the panelists and with the audience.
This year’s theme of gLOCAL Evaluation Week is: The Future of M&E: Culture, Context and Collaboration. The opening panel zooms in on two sets of questions dividing the panel into two complementary parts.
The first part focuses on the institutionalization of M&E in public policy systems. Considering the evolution in national M&E systems in recent years in different parts in the world, going forward what are the main opportunities and challenges for strengthening the institutionalization of M&E in public policy? How can we develop resilient M&E systems that can withstand and outlast institutional uncertainties and volatilities?
The second part of the session goes deeper into the practice of evaluation. What changes in the way evaluative evidence is being generated do we foresee? What are opportunities and challenges for using data and methods for making evaluative evidence more robust but also more useful and accessible for decision makers and other evaluation stakeholders? How can culturally responsive evaluation principles be usefully integrated with (universally considered) good (scientific) principles of evaluation research?
Both segments will include lightning talks by the panelists and space for discussion among the panelists and with the audience.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Dugan Fraser | Program Manager, GEI | Dugan Fraser is the Program Manager at the Global Evaluation Initiative. Previously, he was the Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results at the University of the Witwatersrand and an Adjunct Professor. As an independent consultant, he supported organizations to collect and use evidence for better decision-making, including designing interventions, monitoring performance, assessing results, and supporting strategy and program planning. |
| Marie Gaarder | Executive Director, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) | Marie Gaarder is the Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), a global leader in producing high-quality evidence for improving development outcomes. Marie has over 25 years of experience managing operational and research projects with a development focus. Prior to joining 3ie, she was a manager in the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, overseeing thematic, sector, corporate and project evaluations. |
| Candice Morkel | Director, CLEAR Anglophone Africa | Candice Morkel is the Director of CLEAR Anglophone Africa and senior lecturer in Monitoring and Evaluation at Wits University in South Africa. She has 25 years’ experience in government, academia, and the non-profit sector, specializing in M&E and public policy. Her work focuses on supporting governments and development partners to build better systems of evidence production and use. She has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and edited books on monitoring and evaluation, and supervises local and international master and PhD students in evaluation. |
| Sanjeev Sridharan | Professor of Health Policy Evaluation, University of Hawaii | Sanjeev Sridharan is a Professor of Health Policy Evaluation at the University of Hawaii. With over 15 years of experience in global health research and evaluation, he is recognized for his expertise in the development and evaluation of health systems interventions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. He has published extensively in leading health and policy journals and is actively involved in mentoring and training the next generation of global health professionals. |
| Estelle Raimondo | Senior Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Office, World Bank | Estelle Raimondo is an evaluation expert in IEG’s Human Development Unit. She is a specialist in evaluation methods and advises teams across IEG on a wide range of research designs. Estelle also contributes her expertise as a member of major evaluations teams dealing with multifaceted governance and organization effectiveness issues such as data for development, citizen engagement, performance management, and carbon finance. |
Moderators
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Jos Vaessen | Advisor GEI | Jos Vaessen (PhD) is evaluation advisor at the Independent Evaluation Group (since 2016) and deputy head of the Global Evaluation Initiative (since 2021). He has been working in evaluation research since 1998, first as an academic evaluation consultant and later on as a lead evaluator. He has conducted and led evaluations for multilateral and bilateral development organizations in a range of policy fields such as agriculture, environment, science, education, health and others. Jos has authored several internationally peer reviewed publications, including three books. |