World Café

This engaging session will spark collaborative dialogue and diverse thinking around national evaluation systems. This structured discussion format promotes open knowledge sharing and actionable insights through face-to-face conversations at themed tables.

Each discussion table will feature a printed poster to anchor the conversation, guiding participants through key questions and perspectives, encouraging dynamic exchanges and cross-pollination of ideas among evaluation professionals.

This session offers a unique opportunity to explore the future of evaluation systems in a participatory and inclusive environment.

• A collaborative diagnosis for a better evaluation – the National Evaluation Capacities Index (INCE), Sven Harten, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)
• Climate urgency and access: lessons from evaluation on unlocking finance, Andreas Reumann, GCF
• Better evaluation by all, for all! Lessons from the COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition, Megan Grace Kennedy-Chouane, OECD 
• Towards gender-responsive national evaluation systems: Moving beyond numbers, Sohini Mookherjee, CLEAR South Asia, India 
• Pacific monitoring, evaluation, and learning capabilities, Emily Sharp and Eroni Wavu,  SPC 
• Designing for success: Incorporating evaluative mindset into project design, Mitchell Rakusin, ADB
• Evaluative thinking at scale: SHIPDET's role in transforming national M&E systems in Asia and the Pacific, Maya Vijayaraghavan, Mary Anne Chaneco, and Cherie Anne Quirante, ADB

Facilitators: 
Sonia Chand Sandhu, ADB 
Dugan Fraser, WB

Session Coordinators: 
Cherie Quirante  
Meyan Chaneco