Agenda at a Glance
* All times are local Shanghai time (UTC+8)
| 08:00 am - 08:30 am | Onsite Claiming of Badges | |
| 08:30 am - 09:15 am | Opening Session | |
| 09:15 am - 09:45 am | Plenary 1: Progress of China's reform on performance-based budget management and evaluation | |
| 09:45 am - 10:30 am | Morning Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Plenary 2: Evidence Talks with Tim Harford | |
| 12:00 pm - 01:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm | Parallel Session 1 - Practice and Innovations in Performance-based Management and Evaluation of Government Investment Projects in China | 
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| 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm | Parallel Session 2 - Catalyzing Progress: Leveraging Concessional Finance for Development in Asia and the Pacific |
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| 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm | Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm | Parallel Session 3: INCE – A collaborative initiative to assess national evaluation capacities | 
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| 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm | Parallel Session 4: Transforming Evaluation Practices in the Asia Pacific through Professionalizing Regional Standards and Code of Ethics |
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| 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm | Welcome Cocktails |
| 09:00 am - 10:30 am | Plenary 3: Engaging for Impact: Enhancing Country Partnerships | |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Morning Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Parallel Session 5: Leveraging impact evaluations for development impact | 
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| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Parallel Session 6: Leveraging Evaluation for Organizational Transformation: Insights from the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) and Other Key Development Partners |
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| 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm | Parallel Session 7: Evaluations in international development and regional cooperation: practices and innovations |
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| 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm | Parallel Session 8: Shaping the MDBs transformational agenda: is evaluation making a real impact? |
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| 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm | Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm | Parallel Session 9: AI & ML in Action: Revolutionizing Efficiency and Innovation in Evaluation |
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| 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm | Parallel Session 10: Utilizing Evaluation for Impactful Change in Institutional Delivery |
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| 09:00 am - 10:30 am | Parallel Session 17: Leveraging data science to evaluate World Bank's spatial targeting and partnering at the country-level: the case of Nepal |
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| 09:00 am - 10:30 am | Parallel Session 18: Water, Climate, and Communities: Generating Impact Evidence for Climate Solutions in Vulnerable Contexts at the Regional Level |
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| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Morning Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Plenary 5: Evaluation Headlines Live: Evolving Role of Evaluation in Preparing for an Uncertain Future | |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Organizers’ Closing Remarks | |
| 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm | Lunch |
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