We regularly hold webinars and other knowledge events as part of our efforts to disseminate knowledge, contribute to discussions on current topics, and participate in the global evaluation community.
All recorded webinars can also be found on our Youtube Channel
Translating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into tangible and measurable national policies and actions requires the involvement of parliaments. This webinar held on June 5, 2020 aimed to share parliaments’ experiences in identifying national priorities and providing guidance on their implementation to ensure that national actions reflect and address specific national needs and circumstances. The main challenges to meeting the SDG targets as well as efforts undertaken by parliaments to mitigate these challenges were also discussed.
Large evaluations (for example implementation evaluations) generate robust findings, but are often costly to implement and can take a long time to complete. Rapid evaluations address the need to quickly assess policy/programme/strategy/function delivery, and establish the main performance data, with main recommendations for improvements, while at the same time reducing the costs and time of evaluation projects. They are also strongly associated with teamwork, quick assessments, and flexibility across relatively diverse exercises of evaluation enquiry.
This webinar aims to disseminate the findings, lessons and recommendations from the evaluation of the African Development Bank’s Integrated Safeguards System (ISS), and the actions the Bank is undertaking to ensure effectiveness of the ISS in achieving its safeguards objectives. The evaluation report presents an in-depth analysis of the relevance and robustness of the ISS design; the efficiency of the system, process, resourcing and the existing incentives; and its emerging effectiveness in achieving the Bank’s safeguards objectives.
This webinar aims to present the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the independent evaluations of Quality Assurance (QA) across the Project Cycle, the Quality at Entry and Quality of Supervision of the African Development Bank Group, during 2012-2017. It discusses the challenges as well as the context for ensuring a robust QA framework for public and private sector development projects. It also reveals the best practices for project QA learned from both the Bank and other development organizations.
Meta-evaluation (MEv) is the evaluation of evaluations, the systematic review of evaluations to determine the quality of their processes and findings and the assessment of the role of evaluation in a policy sector or an organization. After exploring some of the key theoretical grounds of MEv, the webinar will share some examples of tailored MEv frameworks to assess the worth and merit of a set of evaluations going beyond the narrow conception of evaluation quality.
Participatory evaluation is an approach, which implies to give voice to the stakeholders of an intervention, in its evaluation design, process and results. This webinar will discuss the specificities of this methodology, as well as challenges and opportunities related to its application. The evaluators aim to instill curiosity and promote a discussion around the use of this approach, particularly in the evaluation of AfDB policies, programs and interventions. The webinar will be useful to evaluators, project designers, and communicators working in development. Join us listen to Ms. Latefa Camara and Ms. Carla Silva discuss participatory evaluation.
