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Provisional Conference Programme
 
Time Session type Sessions
ARRIVAL DAY: MONDAY APRIL 11, 2005
09:00 - 18:00 Preparatory meetings Steering Committee, Stream Conveners & Training Coordinators meet to finalize plans
12 noon onwards Arrivals - airport greeting services provided Participants arrive and are settled into hotels
CONFERENCE DAY 1: TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2005
08:00 - 08:45 Registration
  • Conference Participants register
09:00 - 10:00 Opening Plenary and Keynote Presentations
  • Conference Convener/IDEAS presents main purpose
  • Keynote 1: New Development Agenda - Major shifts in the global paradigms for development
  • Keynote 2: Challenges of Evaluation for Developing Societies
  • Official Opening Statement
10:00 - 10:30 Tea/Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Conference Context & Process
  • IDEAS Presents Conference Context and Outlines the Main Sessions and the Conference Process, starting with the Introduction to Conference Stream I
11:00 - 12:30 Conference Stream I: Evaluating the Multiple Dimensions of Development Parallel Sessions on:
  • Evaluating the impact of developed country policies on developing countries
  • Evaluating the Rights Dimensions of Development
  • Insurance Companies Evaluating the environmental sustainability dimensions of development
  • Security and Conflicts - implications for evaluation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Plenary Session I: Implications for Development Evaluation Stream I Moderator/Chairs of parallel sessions present syntheses and key questions on the implications for development evaluation - for debate and discussion
16:00 - 17:30 Conference Stream II: Developing Evaluation in a Changing World Parallel Sessions on:
  • Global Trends in Development Evaluation
  • Country-driven and country owned capacities in evaluation for development - organizations, systems, capacity development
  • Local and citizen dynamics in evaluation for development - community participation, equity and accountability to citizens
  • Aid evaluation and its future
18:00 - 20:00 Public Reception
20:00 - 21:30 Task Group Meeting Task Group of key institutions, organizations of civil society, government and private sector meet to reflect on “Road Map on Partnership for the Evaluation of Development”
CONFERENCE DAY 2: WEDNESDAY APRIL 13, 2004
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session II: Synthesis on Developing Evaluation in a Changing World Stream II Moderator/Chairs of parallel sessions present syntheses and key questions on the implications for development evaluation - for debate and discussion in plenary
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Conference Stream III: Governance and Evaluation Parallel Sessions on:
  • Government Accountability
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Civil Society Approaches to Accountability
  • Towards a New Architecture for Evaluation of Development
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Plenary Session III: Implications for the Governance of Evaluation Stream III Moderator/Chairs of parallel sessions present syntheses and key questions on the implications for development evaluation - for debate and discussion in plenary
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Closing Plenary Session
  • Three chairs of plenary sessions provide reflections on the outcome of the conference
  • IDEAS presents conference synthesis and way forward re: “Road Map for Partnership in Evaluation for Development”
18:30 - 21:00 Meeting
(For IDEAS members only)
IDEAS Annual General Meeting + Election of some Board Members
CONFERENCE DAY 3: THURSDAY 14 APRIL
09:00 - 10:30 Partnership Workshops Workshop 1: DAC Quality Standards for Evaluation of Development (involving a discussion between DAC members, bilateral agencies, UNEG, civil society, developing country Evaluation Organizations

Workshop 2: Parliamentary Partnership for Evaluation and Oversight
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 - 16:00 Partnership Workshops contd.
  • DAC Quality Standards for Evaluation of Development continued to end of day
  • Parliamentary Partnership for Evaluation continued…
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
09:00 - 16:00 All-day Skill Building Workshops
  • Workshop 3: Designing and Building Performance-Based Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: A Tool for Managing Programmes and Policies (Ray Rist, World Bank-OED) - confirmed
  • Workshop 4: Evaluating Organizational Performance (Nancy MacPherson) - proposed
  • Workshop 5: Participatory Techniques & Civic Engagement in Monitoring & Evaluation (Ted Jackson, Carleton University Centre for Community Innovations, Ottawa, Canada and Indian collaborator) - confirmed
  • Workshop 6: Evaluation from a Rights-based Approach (Jean Quesnel, UNICEF) proposed
  • Workshop 7: Evaluating Public-Private Partnerships (Mary Cole, IDEAS) - proposed
16:00 - 18:30 Board Meeting IDEAS Board Meeting:
  • Introduce and orient new Board Members;
  • Reflect on the way forward for IDEAS in light of conference conclusions
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