Building Gender Lens in Evaluation and Communication: Necessary or Optional? “Evaluation Communication and Use”

This session will address the theme of “Evaluation Communication and Use” and will speak of using data visualization and creative approaches to communicate evidence to a range of audiences beyond academia and development practioners. This includes communicating back to communities and people who are researched, as well as to policy makers and the government for effective use of evidence. This session will be a roundtable consisting of 4-5minute presentations/reflections from 9 speakers on the following two topics with a considerable amount of time for open debate including the audience:
a) Moving beyond reports and peer reviewed publications to communicate evidence and evaluation learnings: innovation and creativity in taking results back to communities.
b) Effective engagement and communication of findings to decision makers: engaging policy makers effectively to engage with and utilize evaluation findings.