EVENT broken into 4 separate events
This event has been broken up into 4 separate events now.
Event Type:Panel
Região :Europe and Central Asia
Start Date:June 1
End Date:June 4
Track:Building Forward Better
Target Audience
Academics, Government Officials, Policymakers/Parliamentarians, Evaluation Practitioners, Students
Session Details
Session Name:Building forward better on food security: using evidence for a post-Covid19 world without hunger
Session Date:June 1
Session Time:03:00 pm ~ 04:30 pm
Session Details:The COVID pandemic is taking a heavy toll on Food Security, with the number of people suffering from chronic and acute food insecurity on the rise worldwide . Urgent and sound actions are necessary to build forward better and accelerate progress towards achieving SDG 2 – Ending Hunger.
Emergencies and shocks affecting food security are not new: the development community has accumulated a wealth of experience, lessons and good practices from addressing past crises. The evidence on what works, and what does not work under different conditions is invaluable to help shape the response that governments and the development community are providing to affected populations.
To contribute to greater effectiveness of the UN system and aid sector in addressing the impact of the COVID pandemic on food security, the United Nations Evaluation Group has recently published an Evidence summary on COVID-19 and Food Security. The Evidence Summary draws from numerous evaluations conducted in recent years by bilateral and multilateral agencies, summarized and curated by the three food agencies, FAO, WFP, IFAD, and by UNIDO.
This gLOCAL session will engage policy makers, programme managers, technical and financial partners in discussing what and how we can learn from evaluative evidence in order to design informed and context specific programmes. The event will feature findings, key good practices and lessons learned from evaluations of interventions to protect food security in times of crises, in particular looking at social protection, economic response and recovery, and social cohesion and community response.
AGENDA
- Opening remarks, by Ms Andrea Cook, Director, Office of Evaluation, WFP
- The Evidence Summary on COVID-19 and Food Security, by Mr Patrick Breard, international consultant, Breard & Associates.
- Panel discussion moderated by Carlos Tarazona, Senior Evaluation Officer, FAO, with:
o Ms Terri Sarch, UK Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome TBC
o Ms Sarah Laughton, Chief of Social Protection, WFP
o Mr Patrick Jacqueson, Programme and Results Team Leader, Office of Emergencies and Resilience, FAO
o Ms Joan Carling, indigenous human rights activist and environmentalist, Philippines
- Q&A
- Conclusions and next steps to build forward better on food security, by Ms Andrea Cook, Office of Evaluation, WFP
Emergencies and shocks affecting food security are not new: the development community has accumulated a wealth of experience, lessons and good practices from addressing past crises. The evidence on what works, and what does not work under different conditions is invaluable to help shape the response that governments and the development community are providing to affected populations.
To contribute to greater effectiveness of the UN system and aid sector in addressing the impact of the COVID pandemic on food security, the United Nations Evaluation Group has recently published an Evidence summary on COVID-19 and Food Security. The Evidence Summary draws from numerous evaluations conducted in recent years by bilateral and multilateral agencies, summarized and curated by the three food agencies, FAO, WFP, IFAD, and by UNIDO.
This gLOCAL session will engage policy makers, programme managers, technical and financial partners in discussing what and how we can learn from evaluative evidence in order to design informed and context specific programmes. The event will feature findings, key good practices and lessons learned from evaluations of interventions to protect food security in times of crises, in particular looking at social protection, economic response and recovery, and social cohesion and community response.
AGENDA
- Opening remarks, by Ms Andrea Cook, Director, Office of Evaluation, WFP
- The Evidence Summary on COVID-19 and Food Security, by Mr Patrick Breard, international consultant, Breard & Associates.
- Panel discussion moderated by Carlos Tarazona, Senior Evaluation Officer, FAO, with:
o Ms Terri Sarch, UK Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome TBC
o Ms Sarah Laughton, Chief of Social Protection, WFP
o Mr Patrick Jacqueson, Programme and Results Team Leader, Office of Emergencies and Resilience, FAO
o Ms Joan Carling, indigenous human rights activist and environmentalist, Philippines
- Q&A
- Conclusions and next steps to build forward better on food security, by Ms Andrea Cook, Office of Evaluation, WFP
Session Type:Panel
Carlos Tarazona
Senior Evaluation Officer
FAO
Carlos is an evaluation specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the evaluation of agricultural and rural development programmes. He is currently Evaluation Officer at FAO Office of Evaluation, where he is responsible for coordinating selected thematic and country evaluations.
Joan Carling
Indigenous Filipino human rights activist
independent
Joan is an indigenous Filipino human rights activist and environmentalist who has defended the rights of native and marginalized peoples for over two decades. She has served as Secretary General of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, has chaired the Cordillera People's Alliance in the Philippines, and received the Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Andrea Cook
Director, Office of Evaluation
World Food Programme
Andrea has been WFP's Director of Evaluation since February 2017. She manages the Office of Evaluation at WFP's headquarters in Rome and, provides leadership to the evaluation function across WFP. She is also the UNEG Vice Chair for Evaluation Function.
Patrick Breard
International Consultant
Breard & Associates
Patrick brings 25 years of experience primarily dedicated to the modernisation of national and international public sector organizations. Before founding Breard & Associates, he coordinated KM activities for the United Nations Development Programme in New York.
Patrick Jacqueson
Senior Progamme Officer
FAO
Patrick is currently leading the Programming and Outreach team within the FAO Emergency and Resilience division. Graduated from the Institut National Agronomique, Paris-Grignon, he has over 20 years of experience in the field of agricultural development, food security and humanitarian response.
Terri Sarch
UK Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome
UK Embassy in Rome
This speaker is TBC
Sarah Laughton
Chief of Social Protection
WFP
Bio to be added
Session Name:Whose reality counts in evaluation? Building forward better with people-centered and adaptive evaluations
Session Date:June 2
Session Time:03:00 pm ~ 04:30 pm
Session Details:This session draws on two key and interrelated topics that emerged over the last year in the knowledge sharing among members of the EvalForward Community of Practice:
1. Use of community feedback for adaptive programming. The ongoing pandemic has brought to the fore the importance of flexibility and adaptability of development and emergency interventions. Rapid evaluation and assessments and real-time approaches could play the role of collecting community feedback and providing inputs for adapting interventions to emerging needs of population. These evaluations have opportunities as well as methodological challenges.
2. Methods for enabling community participation and feedback in times of COVID. The pandemic has uncovered new challenges in reaching out to target groups and taking their perspectives into account in a representative manner in evaluations. This is especially true for marginalized groups, which are likely to be the ones most affected by the impacts of shocks such as pandemics and may also be residing in geographically remote locations. Vulnerabilities of groups such as indigenous people, women, youth, landless are exacerbated in times of shocks. It is thus important to ensure that data collection methods are designed to hear the voices of communities in evaluations, especially when evaluations are undertaken in the context of COVID.
In discussing these two topics, the session will focus in particular on examples of some ways in which adaptive programming and inclusive evaluations have been undertaken. Participants will also be able to share and put forward their perspectives and experiences. The sessions will thus be iterative and provide a forum for exchange of experiences. Both the sessions will be moderated by experienced development professionals. The sessions will be followed by a wrap up session to bring together multiple lines of thought emerging from the discussions.
AGENDA
- Opening remarks by Mr Indran Naidoo, Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD TBC
- Community-led approaches for adaptive responses and recovery by Johanna Pennarz, Senior Evaluation Officer, IFAD and Deborah McWhinney, Senior Evaluation Officer, WFP
Part 1: Use of community feedback for adaptive programming, facilitated by Jennifer Mutua, Evaluation Society of Kenya
o Highlights from the rapid evaluation of Covid impact in mountain areas – Ms Malika Bonfour president Association Ayur pour le Développement de la femme Rurale, Morocco
o Highlights from the rapid assessment of needs of migrant people – Ms Nayely Almanza Sustainable Landscapes Specialist, Rainforest Alliance Mexico.
o Discussion with participants
Part 2: Methods for enabling community participation and feedback in times of COVID Facilitated by Dee Jupp, Independent Social Development Consultant & Technical Advisor
o Highlights from the participatory outcome evaluation - Binod Chapagain, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, USAID Green Invest Asia, Pact, Thailand
o Highlights from the evaluation of CDD in Papua and West Papua - Prashanth Kotturi, Evaluation Officer, IFAD
Discussion with participants
Plenary and Conclusions by Jennifer Mutua and Dee Jupp
1. Use of community feedback for adaptive programming. The ongoing pandemic has brought to the fore the importance of flexibility and adaptability of development and emergency interventions. Rapid evaluation and assessments and real-time approaches could play the role of collecting community feedback and providing inputs for adapting interventions to emerging needs of population. These evaluations have opportunities as well as methodological challenges.
2. Methods for enabling community participation and feedback in times of COVID. The pandemic has uncovered new challenges in reaching out to target groups and taking their perspectives into account in a representative manner in evaluations. This is especially true for marginalized groups, which are likely to be the ones most affected by the impacts of shocks such as pandemics and may also be residing in geographically remote locations. Vulnerabilities of groups such as indigenous people, women, youth, landless are exacerbated in times of shocks. It is thus important to ensure that data collection methods are designed to hear the voices of communities in evaluations, especially when evaluations are undertaken in the context of COVID.
In discussing these two topics, the session will focus in particular on examples of some ways in which adaptive programming and inclusive evaluations have been undertaken. Participants will also be able to share and put forward their perspectives and experiences. The sessions will thus be iterative and provide a forum for exchange of experiences. Both the sessions will be moderated by experienced development professionals. The sessions will be followed by a wrap up session to bring together multiple lines of thought emerging from the discussions.
AGENDA
- Opening remarks by Mr Indran Naidoo, Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD TBC
- Community-led approaches for adaptive responses and recovery by Johanna Pennarz, Senior Evaluation Officer, IFAD and Deborah McWhinney, Senior Evaluation Officer, WFP
Part 1: Use of community feedback for adaptive programming, facilitated by Jennifer Mutua, Evaluation Society of Kenya
o Highlights from the rapid evaluation of Covid impact in mountain areas – Ms Malika Bonfour president Association Ayur pour le Développement de la femme Rurale, Morocco
o Highlights from the rapid assessment of needs of migrant people – Ms Nayely Almanza Sustainable Landscapes Specialist, Rainforest Alliance Mexico.
o Discussion with participants
Part 2: Methods for enabling community participation and feedback in times of COVID Facilitated by Dee Jupp, Independent Social Development Consultant & Technical Advisor
o Highlights from the participatory outcome evaluation - Binod Chapagain, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, USAID Green Invest Asia, Pact, Thailand
o Highlights from the evaluation of CDD in Papua and West Papua - Prashanth Kotturi, Evaluation Officer, IFAD
Discussion with participants
Plenary and Conclusions by Jennifer Mutua and Dee Jupp
Session Type:Other - Facilitated knowledge sharing session
Jennifer Mutua
Founder and independent consultant
Evaluation Society of Kenya
A leading M&E, Gender, Program and Organizational Management Specialist, with over 10 years of relevant experience. Founder of Evaluation Society of Kenya (ESK). Under her organizational leadership Kenya declared the 2018 Winner of the EVALPARTNERS/ EVALSDGs Global Outcomes Competition. Holds MA in Gender and Development and a BA in Sociology and Philosophy.
Dee Jupp
Evaluation expert
Independent
With nearly 40 years of participatory development and qualitative research experience, she remains passionate about people-centred research and creating new ways to include people’s voices, perspectives and lived reality .
Currently she advises Empatika, a small people-centred research and training organisation based in Indonesia and undertakes part-time consultancies such as participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning and people-driven design assignments.
Currently she advises Empatika, a small people-centred research and training organisation based in Indonesia and undertakes part-time consultancies such as participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning and people-driven design assignments.
Indran A. Naidoo
Director, Independent Office of Evaluation
IFAD
Indran is Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation. He is responsible for promoting accountability and learning in IFAD, thus contributing to the improvement of the operational performance of IFAD for better development effectiveness.
Indran is a globally experienced evaluation thought leader and manager who brings in over 25 years of experience in the field.
Indran is a globally experienced evaluation thought leader and manager who brings in over 25 years of experience in the field.
Johanna Pennarz
Senior Evaluation Officer
IFAD
Johanna Pennarz is a lead evaluation officer at the Independent Office of Evaluation. She has been leading evaluations of IFAD's country strategies and programmes in Nigeria, Egypt and Georgia. She was also the lead author of the evaluation syntheses on gender and partnerships.
Deborah McWhinney
Senior Evaluation Officer
WFP
Deborah McWhinney is a Senior Evaluation Officer in WFP’s Office of Evaluation and oversees the Global and Synthesis Unit, which includes the management of complex policy and strategic evaluations, as well as syntheses. Prior to joining WFP, she worked for the Development Evaluation Unit at Global Affairs Canada and coordinated the MOPAN assessments in 2012 and 2013. She has over 25 years of field experience with WFP, UNICEF and CARE Canada. She holds a Master’s degree from York University and a Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation.
Malika Bonfour
President
Association Ayur pour le Développement de la femme Rurale Morocco
Malika is an experienced project manager with track records working for government and private institutions in Morocco as well as development agencies (FAO). Malika has an agriculture engineering degree in Morocco and a PhD in Entomology from WSU-USA and is skilled in
Nayeli Almanza
M&E, Sustainable Landscapes Specialist Sr.
Rainforest Alliance Mexico
Nayeli is an M&E professional with more than 9 years of experience in different organizations such as FAO, IOM, UNDP and NGOs.
Binod Chapagain
Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
USAID Green Invest Asia, Pact, Thailand
Binod holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Australian National University and brings over 20 years of multi-sectoral international development experiences, which broadly include project development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, research, and reporting. The experience includes 10 years of leading roles on monitoring, evaluation, and research with the organizations engaged poverty reduction, gender equity, inclusive and sustainable growth through natural resources management.
Prashanth Kotturi
Evaluation Officer
IFAD
Prashanth joined the Independent Office of Evaluation in October 2012 and is currently working as an Evaluation Officer. Since then he has worked in lead and support roles on a wide range of evaluations ranging from project evaluations, country portfolio evaluations to corporate level evaluations and evaluation synthesis. He has led evaluations in diverse range of countries such as Malawi, Palestinian Territories, Eswatini, Indonesia. His thematic areas of interest include Community Driven Development and Rural Finance.
Session Name:National expertise to build forward better with adaptive evaluation practice
Session Date:June 3
Session Time:03:00 pm ~ 04:00 pm
Session Details:In almost every field, the Covid pandemic has uncovered what is really essential and what is less. In evaluation, with the outbreak of the pandemic travels had to be cancelled and many ordinary ways of work have been disrupted or put into question. Still, many evaluations where managed just the same , by finding new and innovative solutions which showed how we can achieve the same in different and more sustainable ways. Other evaluations could not be carried out and were cancelled or postponed. Overall, most evaluation commissioners and consultants had to address new risks and changing conditions.
The focus of this session is on taking a step back to reflect on how evaluation practice has adapted, and what should be retained and improved from this ongoing experience. The session will look into how the changed conditions have affected national consultants, into the opportunities that can be leveraged to improve evaluation and to the risks to manage. Issues to address in order to build forward better on evaluation practice may include: enhancing capacities and roles of national consultants and institutions, strengthening national ownership on the evaluation processes and results, reducing international travel and carbon emissions, protecting the independence and the profile of the evaluation process, etc.
The session is liked to a following session in French led by IFAD: "Réflexions depuis le vécu des évaluateurs nationaux. Qu’est-ce que la pandémie nous a appris sur comment mieux reconstruire notre pratique d'évaluation?" https://glocalevalweek.org/fr/event/reflexions-depuis-le-vecu-des-evaluateurs-nationaux-quest-ce-que-la-pandemie-nous-appris-sur
AGENDA
- Opening remarks by Mr. Masahiro Igarashi, Director, Office of Evaluation, FAO
- Building on national expertise for adaptive evaluation practice by Aurelie Larmoyer, Evaluation Officer, FAO, and Eoghan Molloy, Evaluation Officer, IFAD
- Panel discussion:
o Arjumand Nizami, Country Director / Int. Advisor Environment & Climate Change,
Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, Pakistan
o Khalid El Harizi, Strategic evaluation expert, Morocco
o Mustapha El Haiba, Evaluation consultant, Morocco
Concluding remarks by Masahiro Igarashi, Director, Office of Evaluation, FAO
The focus of this session is on taking a step back to reflect on how evaluation practice has adapted, and what should be retained and improved from this ongoing experience. The session will look into how the changed conditions have affected national consultants, into the opportunities that can be leveraged to improve evaluation and to the risks to manage. Issues to address in order to build forward better on evaluation practice may include: enhancing capacities and roles of national consultants and institutions, strengthening national ownership on the evaluation processes and results, reducing international travel and carbon emissions, protecting the independence and the profile of the evaluation process, etc.
The session is liked to a following session in French led by IFAD: "Réflexions depuis le vécu des évaluateurs nationaux. Qu’est-ce que la pandémie nous a appris sur comment mieux reconstruire notre pratique d'évaluation?" https://glocalevalweek.org/fr/event/reflexions-depuis-le-vecu-des-evaluateurs-nationaux-quest-ce-que-la-pandemie-nous-appris-sur
AGENDA
- Opening remarks by Mr. Masahiro Igarashi, Director, Office of Evaluation, FAO
- Building on national expertise for adaptive evaluation practice by Aurelie Larmoyer, Evaluation Officer, FAO, and Eoghan Molloy, Evaluation Officer, IFAD
- Panel discussion:
o Arjumand Nizami, Country Director / Int. Advisor Environment & Climate Change,
Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, Pakistan
o Khalid El Harizi, Strategic evaluation expert, Morocco
o Mustapha El Haiba, Evaluation consultant, Morocco
Concluding remarks by Masahiro Igarashi, Director, Office of Evaluation, FAO
Session Type:Panel
Eoghan Molloy
Evaluation Officer
IFAD
Eoghan is an international development evaluation specialist, currently with IFAD Independent Office of Evaluation, and previously with FAO Office of Evaluation and OECD Development Centre. He holds a Master’s degree in Development Practice from Trinity College Dublin and a Bachelor’s degree in civil law from University College Dublin.
Aurelie Larmoyer
Evaluation Officer
FAO
Aurélie is an international development programme evaluation specialist with over 20 years of experience in delivering and evaluating aid programmes. She has been an evaluator since 2004, first with WFP, then with FAO and the IAEA. She holds a master’s degree in international development from La Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Monica Lomena-Gelis
Senior Evaluation Officer
IFAD
Monica is an environmentalist and evaluator with several years of professional experience in international development and development effectiveness in Latin America and Africa. Prior to IFAD she worked for the African Development Bank, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, for NGOs and private sector.
Arjumand Nizami
Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
Country Director / Int. Advisor Environment & Climate Change
Arjumand has worked in the development sector for over twenty-seven years. Her thematic interests are diverse including natural resource management, environment, climate-change, value chains, water, food and nutrition, poverty, and institutions. She has designed, led and evaluated diverse projects with multi-disciplinary teams. She also published several articles in reputable journals.
Khalid El Harizi
Evaluation expert
Independent
Khalid is a strategic evaluation expert, former staff in IFAD, as Country Programme Manager; Manager of the Innovation Mainstreaming Initiative; and Senior Evaluation Officer. He also led a joint IFPRI-IFAD research project on Empowering the Rural Poor under Volatile Policy Environments and worked for the FAO’s Investment Centre, its Technical Cooperation Programme and for the Government of Morocco.
Mustapha EL HAIBA
Independent consultant
Independent
Consultant, specialist in water resources management. Hydrological engineer, former Head of Division at the Water Department in Rabat, Morocco. He has worked for several years in Africa and the Arab region on water, irrigation and drinking water supply projects, including with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and with the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development.
Masahiro Igarashi
Director, Office of Evaluation
FAO
Masa is an evaluation expert with more than 25 years of experience in development evaluation, economic analysis, organizational reform and policy development, and result-based management. He is currently serving as the Director of the Office of Evaluation in FAO and chair of the UNEG.
Session Name:The impacts of COVID on the Italian Agriculture & Food sector: what can we learn to build forward better more resilient and sustainable food systems?
Session Date:June 4
Session Time:03:00 pm ~ 04:15 pm
Session Details:The pandemic affected in different ways economic sectors and countries: this session will take a close look at the Italian agriculture and food sector with its specific features and will discuss the response that the national and European authorities have provided.
What type of data can be used to simulate or assess the intensity of shocks caused by the crisis on agriculture and to help shape policy responses?
Lessons learned that can be used to improve the resilience of the sector and of the whole food system in Italy will be shared and on how to ensure better use of evidence by decision makers in this particular area.
AGENDA
- Introduction remarks by Simona Cristiano, Researcher and evaluation specialist, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics and Italian Evaluation Society
- Panel discussion moderated by Fabrizio Felloni, Deputy Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD, with:
o Annalisa Zezza, Senior policy analyst, National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA), Italy, on potential impact on agriculture of Covid-19 outbreak on medium term prospects
o Luca Cesaro, Senior researcher, National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA), Italy on Italian Farms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Main Problems and Future Perspectives
- Q&A with participants
What type of data can be used to simulate or assess the intensity of shocks caused by the crisis on agriculture and to help shape policy responses?
Lessons learned that can be used to improve the resilience of the sector and of the whole food system in Italy will be shared and on how to ensure better use of evidence by decision makers in this particular area.
AGENDA
- Introduction remarks by Simona Cristiano, Researcher and evaluation specialist, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics and Italian Evaluation Society
- Panel discussion moderated by Fabrizio Felloni, Deputy Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD, with:
o Annalisa Zezza, Senior policy analyst, National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA), Italy, on potential impact on agriculture of Covid-19 outbreak on medium term prospects
o Luca Cesaro, Senior researcher, National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA), Italy on Italian Farms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Main Problems and Future Perspectives
- Q&A with participants
Session Type:Panel
Fabrizio Felloni
Deputy Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation
IFAD
Fabrizio is the Deputy Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation within the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He develops operational policies and methodologies to enhance the independence and effectiveness of the independent evaluation function. He conducts corporate level evaluations. He ensures high-quality professional work by creating an enabling environment for and coaching of IOE staff, and setting quality standards for IOE outputs
Simona Cristiano
Policy analyst and designer
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics and Italian Evaluation Society
Simona has 19 years of experience on policy analysis, design and evaluation of national and European Policies, with a focus on the Agricultural Policy. Fields of expertise include: AKIS; Farm Advisory Services, agricultural supply chains.
Luca Cesaro
Senior researcher
National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA)
Luca is Senior researcher at the National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA), professor of Farm Management at the University of Padova for 10 years, expert in Policy evaluation and analysis in the Agricultural and Forestry sector. Member of the steering committee of the Italian FADN project. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Policy.
Annalisa Zezza
Senior policy analyst
National Council for Agricultural Research (CREA)
Annalisa is a Senior policy analyst, expert on Agricultural Trade; Italian delegate to the OECD Agriculture Policy and Markets Working Group; Co-chair of the taskforce on sustainability indicators for biofuels (GBEP, FAO); Member of the Italian Task force on the bioeconomy; Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Public Policy, Harvard University. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics.