Strengthening Indigenous Evaluation in Nepal towards Transformational Change

Nepal was one of the countries implementing Seed Grant Fund of the "Indigenous Evaluation Knowledge Transfer Workshops and Virtual Meetings for the Asia Pacific Region" supported by APEA, EvalIndigenous, and EvalPartners. Community of Evaluators – Nepal (CoE-Nepal) and Nepal Evaluation Society (NES) had implemented its activities in strengthening Indigenous Evaluation in Nepal towards the Transformational Change.

One of the activities was the workshop organized by CoE-Nepal on "Indigenous Evaluation in Nepal" which aimed to bring together indigenous evaluators, evaluators working with indigenous communities, evaluation experts & practitioners who are interested in promoting indigenous evaluation practices, and young and emerging evaluators to share their knowledge, experiences, challenges, and best practices in promoting indigenous values and culture in monitoring and evaluation.

The workshop provided an opportunity to promote indigenous evaluations in Nepal. Collaborating with different stakeholders such as the government of Nepal – National Planning Commission (NPC), Tribhuvan University, UN Agencies, INGOs/NGOs, and other organizations has emerged as a powerful approach. This approach demonstrated that collective efforts can effectively advance the cause of indigenous evaluations in Nepal. It also emphasized the importance of equipping individuals and different organizations with capacity-building initiatives on Indigenous Evaluation in Nepal.

Another activity was the "Orientation Program on Evaluation for Parliamentarians from the Indigenous Nationalities' organized by NES. The orientation program aimed to introduce recently elected parliamentarians from indigenous nationalities with evaluation concepts and OECD criteria; the constitutional rights of indigenous nationalities and the role of the Indigenous Nationalities Commission in their monitoring and evaluation; and establishment of an evaluation system and institutional set-up in Nepal on monitoring and evaluation.

There are government efforts to increase the involvement of the indigenous nationalities and disadvantaged communities by provisioning certain minimum percent of candidates in the election for them in the legislatures at different levels – federal, provincial and local. Their capacity building after them being elected is quite critical for their effective presence. In this context, one Orientation Program for the parliamentarians from the indigenous nationalities on the Evaluation is organized.

The webinar will be focused on the initiatives of indigenous evaluation in Nepal. The session will deliberate on the achievements and the importance of the necessity of strengthening the Indigenous Evaluation capacity. The webinar will have two presentations and will followed by Q&A session.