Day 3

The role of evaluation in promoting government coordination

Moderator

  • Xiayong Shi, Department of Innovation Strategy Evaluation, National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation, China, Director, Research Fellow 

Panelists

  • Delu Tian, National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation, China, Researcher
  • Erick Chuquiej Galeano, Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency, Ecuador, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation of Development
  • Zhaoying Chen, National Center for Scie

From data to decision—the role of knowledge management and communication in evidence-based decision-making

Moderator

  • Anna Guerraggio, UNDP IEO, Chief, Engagement and Communications

Panelists

  • Cristian Crespo, CLEAR Latin America and the Caribbean, Chile, Executive Director 
  • Josephine Watera,  Parliament of Uganda, Uganda, Assistant Director, Research Services 
  • Patrizia Cocca, GEI/World Bank Group, Communications and Knowledge Management Lead 
  • ZhiPeng Wen, TY Intelligent Science and Technology (Chong

Artificial intelligence and the opportunities it brings to evaluation

Moderator

  • Patrizia Cocca, GEI/World Bank Group, Communications and Knowledge Management Lead

Panelists

  • Anish Pradhan, UNDP IEO, ICT Specialist
  • Devika Lakhote, 3ie, United States of America, Data Scientist
  • Lingrong Ying, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, China, Research Assistant 
  • Marco Segone, Evaluation Office, UNFPA, Director
  • Thomas Kelly, 3ie,

Local values and decolonizing evaluation

Moderator

  • Candice Morkel, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, South Africa, Director

Panelists

  • Dan Du, National Centre for Science and Technology Evaluation, China, Assistant Research Fellow
  • Florita Azofeifa, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Liu Lixin, Mount Yuelu Breeding Innovation Center, China, Vice-President
  • Patrick Okwen, Effective Basic Services Africa, Cameroon, Team L

Building sustainable learning and knowledge-sharing through reciprocal approaches

Moderator

  • Fabio Pittaluga, GEI/World Bank Group, Senior Operations Officer

Panelists

  • Aida Kraiem, Presidency of Government, Tunisia, General Director of Economic, Financial and Social Affairs
  • Awuor Ponge, African Policy Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, Senior Associate Research Fellow
  • Lixin Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Assistant Director of Research Evaluation
  • Zheng Yu

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

Evaluation in Fragile Settings

Moderator

  • Sarah Longford, Deputy Director, Evaluation, WFP

Panellists

  • Rana Sallam, Regional Evaluation Officer, WFP
  • Dr. Abdirizak Hassan Mohamed, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation of Galmudug State, Somalia
  • Dr. Sory Ibrahima Monekata, Executive Director at Ebenezer International, Mali
  • Dr.

Evaluating the SDGs

Moderator

  • Dirk Hoffmann, Evaluator, Deval

Panellists

  • Bala Yusuf-Yunusa, Senior Technical Advisor, OSSAP-SDGs, Nigeria
  • Carolina Zúñiga Zamora, Evaluation Unit, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy, Costa Rica
  • Ana Rosa Soares, Chief Corporate Evaluations, IEO, UNDP
  • Ada Ocampo, President, IDEAS
  • Eriko Pérez, Technical Secretary of Cabinet, Government of Mexico

Have we failed to

Transformational Change

Moderator

  • Heather Bryant, Evaluation Advisor, GEI/UNDP IEO

Panellists

  • David Marchesseault, Evaluation Manager, Global Affairs Canada
  • Dr. Angelina Mattijo- Bazugba, Associate Professor of Social Policy, and Dean/Director of National Transformational Leadership Institute, University of Juba, South Sudan
  • Dr.