Full Agenda

Participants will learn about accountability from the perspective of the government, an international financial institution (IFI) and through the eyes of a journalist. Speakers will speak as key players of the accountability mechanisms to ensure that governments, IFIs are answerable to their authorizing environments.

The COVID-19 pandemic and identification of recovery measures presented many challenges for traditional forms of independent post-evaluation. Evidence-based decision-making in an evolving context called for rapid assessments and actionable (timely and succinct) “need to know” findings and insights.

Participants will become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of partnership development efforts, and gain an understanding of the crucial role that partnerships may play in fostering sustainable and inclusive development.  Participants will learn about examples of successful partnerships and lessons learned.

With the pandemic response behind us, heads of independent evaluation, in this session, can opine on what they think are the main themes that they should focus on in the next five years. Beyond the panel discussion, this interaction can serve as a basis for future collaboration between the MDBs.

This session will share China’s experiences in using cost-effectiveness analysis approach in performance evaluation.

The session will shed light on the conditions under which governments in developing countries use data and evidence and how global and national organisations can build their capacity in a sustainable way. Panelists from Cambodian and Indian national and subnational governments will discuss the practical constraints they face when using data and evidence and the types of capacity building support have been the highest impact for their work.

Participant will gain a) a critical appraisal of the inflation of "innovations" in evaluation; b) learn about some new trends in evaluations by ADB, Deval, GCF, World Bank and others. This relates to new data (geospatial), methods (artificial intelligence, virtual missions), knowledge brokering (evidence gap maps), capacity development (GEI) and addressing cross-cutting topics (climate change / environmental sustainability).

Evaluators have an important role to play to strengthen community ownership in evaluation by involving indigenous communities throughout the evaluation process from the design stage onwards. Through the provision of people and community driven provision of a package of assistance, the Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARM2) project financed by IFAD and implemented by the Government of Philippines was successful in linking indigenous people who live in hard to reach areas to markets.

This session will introduce how the results of performance evaluation are used in public sectors in China.

Participants will learn about opportunities and challenges lying ahead on MDB’s agenda for financing for innovation and will get prospects on the evaluation experience in examining MDBs’ innovative practices and how evaluators could do better.

Equity and quasi-equity instruments enable MDBs to reach young, financially constrained firms with high growth potential, and when implemented properly, they can be highly additional and deliver tangible economic impact in terms of employment and innovation.

Participants will learn about illustrative examples of panelists’ organizations applying innovative evaluation approaches to respond to the growing and sometimes conflicting demands of development evaluation as well as an interactive online resource to assist with matching evaluation questions with appropriate evidence approaches.

The panel discussion will be around making procurement of works, goods, and services less of a barrier to facilitate project success, especially in countries with lower institutional capacity to implement procurement.

This event aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of UN support for NECD and YEE in Asia and the Pacific. The session will highlight the diverse forms of support provided by UNEDAP members and showcase partnerships established with government bodies, parliamentarians, and civil society organizations.

The session will highlight the tangible benefits of partnerships in yielding results for common stakeholders post pandemic. The session will highlight the lessons learned from the joint evaluations conducive to faster partnership creation to accelerate recovery and boost the country development effectiveness agenda...

The session will draw on findings from a series of recent IEG evaluations that illustrate the challenges in bringing together the producers and consumers of knowledge within the World Bank. The set of evaluations are largely focused on the production of diagnostic and other analytical work that identifies country-level institutional weaknesses (e.g., debt management, public investment management, public financial management, procurement, Debt Sustainability Assessments). 

The use of AI can fast track  the delivery of the SDGs by providing innovative and efficient solutions to address global challenges. While AI has numerous advantages, it also has significant risks that need to be addressed. Evaluation can play a crucial role in mitigating AI-related risks by providing a framework to assess and validate AI systems. 

Development practitioners and evaluation specialists will share their perspectives, opportunities and challenges for inclusive and sustainable development, highlighting lessons learned from evaluations and related studies.

Shared international evaluation norms and standards can create common language and facilitate collaboration – at the same time, evaluation must be locally owned and contextualised to the priorities and needs of local communities.

Feedback and communication of evaluation results is an integral part of the evaluation cycle. Effective feedback contributes to improving development policies, programs, and practices by providing policymakers with the relevant evaluation information for making informed decisions.

By listening to a range of key actors working to strengthen national climate responses (Government decision-makers, evaluators from a range of development banks and agencies), participants will have an understanding of the importance of promoting evaluations to green development policies and practices.

CLEAR SA proposes to convene a panel discussion as part of Asian Evaluation Week and bring together its partners and organizations working on “SDG measurement, monitoring and evaluation”. The panel will discuss the value of monitoring and evaluations of SDGs and scaling of programs that work.

Drawing on lessons from evaluations, the panel discussion will focus on the potential, the risks, and the road ahead for budget support.