SAYFES – Nordic – EES seminar

THE FUTURE OF EVALUATION
A Global Perspective … from a Nordic Lens

Programme

10.00 -10.15 Opening Address: Johanna Nurmi, President, SAY-FES

10.15-11.00 Keynote Presentation: Robert (‘Bob’) Picciotto, EES Board Member

The Future of Evaluation: A Global Perspective (power point presentation attached)

11.00-12.00 Panel: Representatives of Nordic VOPEs

A Nordic perspective on the future of evaluation

12.00-13:00 Lunch

13.00-14.00 Parallel Sessions

EES priorities for EvalYear2015

– Involving parliaments – Liisa Horelli

– Emerging evaluators –remote link to Thematic Working Group on Emerging Evaluators

– Professionalization – Ian Davies ?

14.00-15.00 Open Space Deliberations

Nordic messages to the EvalYear Nepal event

1. Creating a Favourable Enabling Environment for Evaluation – Liisa Horelli

2. Strengthening institutional capacities of VOPEs and Civil society – Pekka Pesonen

3. Developing individual evaluator capacities – Anu

5. Innovation: What did we miss? – Riitta Oksanen

15.00-16.00 Summing up

A Nordic contribution to the Global Evaluation Agenda

– Summaries of discussions by theme, facilitators

– Conclusions: Johanna Nurmi