Highlights

After two days of lively and engaging discussions and knowledge sharing among evaluation experts, government officials and representatives of various development organizations across the globe, we move into the third and final day of the 2022 Asian Evaluation Week.

The 2022 Asian Evaluation Week is now in full swing with around 700 participants from 96 countries having signed up for this year’s event. The 2022 AEW kicked off yesterday with an opening session entitled “Emerging from Crisis” graced by Vice-Minister Zhu Zhongming of the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China; Managing Director General Woochong Um of the Asian Development Bank (ADB); and Director General Emmanuel Jimenez of ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department.

Today marks the first day of the 2022 Asian Evaluation Week (AEW), with the onsite venue at the Multi-Function Hall 1 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Headquarters in Manila, Philippines, while the virtual sessions are streamed via Zoom.

The 2022 Asian Evaluation Week (AEW) will kick off tomorrow, 13 September, and will run until 15 September. Around 632 participants from 92 countries representing 357 organizations are expected to join the hybrid event which will feature around 70 speakers across 15 sessions.

Only one week left until the staging of this year’s Asian Evaluation Week (AEW), the leading evaluation knowledge sharing platform in the Asia and Pacific region. The event, which will run from 13-15 September, will feature around seventy speakers who are all experts in their respective fields. Around 438 participants from 77 countries representing 254 organizations have registered for the event.

Curious to know what transpired during the previous Asian Evaluation Week (AEW) events? We have put together a year-by-year summary since the birth of AEW in 2016. For each year, we feature the highlights, agenda, speakers, presentation materials, session recordings, photos, speeches and other relevant materials from the event.

As of 29 August 2022, around 250 participants from 64 countries representing 150 organizations have registered for this year’s Asian Evaluation Week which will be held from 13-15 September 2022.

Register now for the 2022 Asian Evaluation Week (AEW) happening this 13-15 September! AEW is the leading evaluation knowledge sharing event in Asia-Pacific that brings together governments, international organizations, and evaluation experts to exchange knowledge and the latest in evaluation. 

Missed last year's Asian Evaluation Week? Find out what transpired by watching the 2021 AEW Highlights video. Meanwhile, reserve your slot at this year's event by registering here.

The nascence of most successful events happens over a simple conversation, and the words "Wouldn't it be great if...?" So it was with the Asian Evaluation Week. The conversation happened in 2015 during a break time coffee at a conference in Bangkok, Thailand.