Programme
DAY 1 – Concepts, Challenges and Cases
| Time | Topic |
| 08.00 | Registration |
| 09.00 | Opening by conference organisers |
| 09.15 | Welcome and road map of the event – Isaac Bekalo, event chair |
| 09.45 | Rainbow Lexicon |
| 10.30 | Break |
| 11.00 | “Making evaluation work for SPARC – being rigorous and ensuring it serves societal change”Sheela Patel, founding member of world-renowned NGO ‘SPARC’ in Mumbai, India and award winning social activist. Please find her presentation here. |
| 11.35 | “Exploring the implications of ‘complicated’ and ‘complexity’ for evaluative practice”Dr. Patricia Rogers, professor of public sector evaluation at RMIT, Melbourne and award-winning evaluation specialist. Please find her presentation here. |
| 12.10 | Plenary reflection and discussion |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Case Clinics: Round 1. Participants choose two out of nine cases. In the clinics, participants will analyse cases in relation to values and evaluation quality standards present in the case, how an understanding of complexity is enabled, how rigour has been sought, which dilemmas faced, where trade-offs have been made. |
| 15.00 | Break |
| 15.30 | Case Clinics: Round 2 |
| 17.00 | ‘Breaking News!’plenary |
| 17.30 | End of Day 1 with Drinks and Bites |
DAY 2 – Trends, Options and Opportunities
| Timing | Topic |
| 08.30 | Breakfast News! plenary start |
| 09.15 | “Development Cooperation at Crossroads: On what basis to choose new directions?”Maarten Brouwer, special Ambassador of International Cooperation, DGIS (Directorate General for International Cooperation) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Read his speech here. |
| 10.15 | Break |
| 10.45 | Methods and More Market |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Returning to the big questions – group debate through ritual dissent
(i) The methodological debate
(ii) The political debate.
What needs to change and how in order to make possible high quality, value‐driven evaluative practices that embraces complexity? . What constitutes rigorous evaluative practice for embracing complexity?
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| 15.30 | Break |
| 16.00 | Connecting the dots. Panel and plenary debate on lifting the game for evaluative practice in development |
| 16.45 | Assessing the past days |
| 17.30 | Closing |
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