Stream A

Building Resilient National Evaluation Systems

Strengthening evidence use through global collaboration: advancing evaluation partnerships for sustainable impact

Moderator

  • Megan Kennedy-Chouane, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Head of Evaluation Unit

Panelists

  • Dugan Fraser, Program Manager
  • Joerg Faust,  DEval and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Director, and Professor of Political Science
  • Katharina Kayser, Independent Evaluation Section, Chief
  • Kerry Albright, UNICEF Deputy Director / Principal Adviser—Evaluation

Strengthening evaluation capabilities—anchoring evaluation into the machinery of government

Moderator  

  • Denis Jobin, Co-Chair, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) EvalSDGs—EvalPartners, and Senior Evaluation Specialist

Panelists

  • Emmanuel Jimenez, Asian Development Bank, Director General, Independent Evaluation Department
  • Gonzalo Hernández Licona, GEI, Mexico, Evaluation Specialist
  • Patrick Duong, Governance (Public Goods and Services), UNDP Global Lead
  • Sohini Mookherjee, CLEAR South Asia, India,

Parliamentarians/legislative members as change agents: advancing national evaluation agendas and strengthening a culture of evidence and learning

Moderator

  • Jane Mwangi, UNICEF Regional Adviser, Evaluation

Panelists

  • Daniel Alonso Valckx, UNICEF, Evaluation Specialist (Multi-Country)
  • Jérémie Adomahou, African Parliamentarian’s Network on Development Evaluation and Member of Parliament, Benin
  • Josephine Watera, Research Services, Parliament of Uganda, Uganda Assistant Director
  • Jules Dumangas, Budget Policy Research Service, the Philippines, Supervising Legisla

Navigating contextual and cultural diversity: tailoring evaluation systems to national and regional realities

Moderator

  • Thania de la Garza, Caribbean Development Bank, Evaluation Specialist

Panelists

  • Abdeslam Nadah, High Commission for Planning, Morocco Director of Planning
  • Abinash Dash, Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, India, Director of Evaluation 
  • Camille Spencer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad and Tobago, Programme Director M&E 
  • Craig Barham, Performance Monitoring & Eva

Expanding the evaluation system—working with academia and VOPEs to support capacity and capability in evidence generation and use

Moderator

  • David Slattery, UNDP IEO, Regional Evaluation Adviser for Asia and the Pacific

Panelists

  • Ashley Cavers, SDG Impact Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Chief Operating Officer
  • Jenean Pretorius, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, South Africa Lead, Capacity Strengthening
  • Lycia Lima, CLEAR Lusophone Africa and Brazil, Brazil Deputy Director
  • Marijana Sumpor, Croatia Evaluation Society, Croatia, President

Digitizing the public sector for better and more efficient evaluation systems

Moderator

  • Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu, UNDP IEO, Chief of Corporate and Thematic Evaluations 

Panelists

  • Aziza Umarova, Agency for Strategic Reforms under the President, Uzbekistan, Head of Delivery Unit 
  • Fernando Barbosa, Inter-American Developent Bank, Senior Associate Economist 
  • Futhi Mazibuko, Office of the Premier, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Director, Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Gayan Peiris, UNDP H

Country-led evaluations and the SDGs

Moderator

  • Thomas Rossmueller, UNICEF, Partnerships and Capacity Development Officer

Panelists

  • Ada Ocampo,International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), President
  • Bala Yusuf-Yunusa, Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, Nigeria, Senior Technical Adviser
  • Nea-Mari Heinonen, Development Evaluation Unit, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland, Deputy Director and Lead Evaluation Sp

Engaging society to strengthen National Evaluation Systems

Moderator

  • Iryna Kravchuk, Board member and co-founder of Ukrainian Evaluation Association

Panellists

  • Giorgi Kldiashvili, Executive Director, Institute of Democracy and Freedom of Information, Georgia
  • Matodzi Amisi, M&E Specialist, Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR Anglophone Africa), former Chair SAMEA, South Africa
  • Mamadou Coulibaly, Permanent Secretary of the Ivorian Monitoring and Evaluation Network, Vice- President of the Francop

Building National Evaluation Capacities

Moderator

  • Michala Assankpon, Evaluation Officer, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, WFP, Panama

Panellists

  • Viviana Casco Molinas, Minister Executive Secretary, Technical Secretariat of Planning for Social and Economic Development, Paraguay
  • Erick Chuquiej, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency, Guatemala
  • Maria Celeste Ghiano, Coordinator, Latin American and Caribbean Network of Mon

Financing National Evaluation Systems

Moderator

  • Oscar Garcia, Director, IEO, UNDP and Chair, UNEG

Panellists

  • Jerry Zanger, Director, National M&E Unit, Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, Liberia
  • Venancio Mzonda, Chief Economist, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs-Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Malawi
  • Mohamed Mahdad, Governance Director, Ministry in charge of Investment, Convergence and Evaluation of Public Policies, Morocco
  • Karen Rot-Munstermann,