2024

Year ID

2024

Strengthening evaluation capabilities—anchoring evaluation into the machinery of government

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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