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Last updated 24/02/05
10th UKES Annual Conference
Enhancing and Improving Evaluation Practice
6-8 December 2004
University of Glasgow
Keynote speakers
Patricia J. Rogers, 'Leading
Horses to Water? Challenges in Building Evaluation Capacity'
Patricia Rogers is Associate Professor in Public Sector Evaluation
at CIRCLE (Collaborative Institue for Research, Consulting and Learning
in Evaluation) at RMIT University, Australia (Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology). Since the mid 1980s, Patricia Rogers has worked with
government organisations (local, national and state government) and non-government
organizations on developing monitoring and evaluation of a wide range
of programs (e.g., early childhood intervention, community capacity building,
family support, criminal offenders, policing, chemical handling regulation,
labour market legislation, maternal and child health, agricultural research
and extension, physical infrastructure, education and welfare). She has
a particular interest in developing the evaluation capacity of individuals
and organisations and has delivered evaluation workshops for people working
in a wide range of countries across Europe, Asia, Australasia, North
and South America.
Evert Vedung, 'Enhancing evaluation
utilization'
Evert Vedung is Professor of Political Science especially housing policy
at Uppsala University's Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF)
and Department of Government. He is also associated with Mälardalen
University College and its Evaluation Academy (Eskilstuna) and with the
University of Helsinki. His latest books in English on evaluation include Carrots,
Sticks, and Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation (coeditor
1998), and Public Policy and Program Evaluation (author, paperback
2000). He has also written on energy policy, land use policy, and implementation
of global environmental regimes.
True Schedvin, 'Challenges for the evaluation of development
co-operation'
True Schedvin is Evaluation Manager at the European Commission, EuropeAid
Cooperation Office. She is responsible for managing global thematic evaluations
and country-level evaluations of the Commission development cooperation.
She has designed and managed evaluations in different areas of development
cooperation and most recently of trade-related assistance, of good governance,
of gender equality, of technical assistance and partner country ownership,
and she has been involved in several joint initiatives where donors and
partner countries have commissioned and managed evaluations jointly.
True Schedvin will make a presentation on the challenges and opportunities
that face evaluation of development cooperation with an increased number
of partners, new ways of channeling aid changing the possibilities to
account, and shifting responsibilities affecting the audience of evaluations.
Themes for Parallel Sessions
The parallel sessions will be organised around seven themes:
- Widening participation in evaluation
- Evaluator skills and professional development
- International development and evaluation
- Building capacity for evaluation
- Improving public services and organisations through evaluation
- Developing innovative methodologies
- Postgraduate and new evaluator
The final stream on postgraduate and new evaluators will not be topic
specific, but instead encourage post-graduate students and professionals
new to the evaluation scene an opportunity to present their work in an
informal and supportive environment.
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