The French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry and the Paris Declaration Evaluation Secretariat hosted a workshop 6-7 February 2012 on Lessons Learned from Joint Evaluations, bringing together participants from partner and donor countries. The purpose of the workshop was to identify lessons for future joint evaluations – drawing from experience with the Paris Declaration Evaluation and other recent large scale joint evaluations. Discussions looked at how to build on the capacity and network relations developed in these evaluations for future partner country-led, collaborative or joint efforts as a way towards mutual accountability.

 

Take a look at the workshop's main documents:

• Workshop report
• Workshop Programme
• "Joint evaluations coming of age? The quality and future scope of joint evaluations" (Tony Beck)
• Evaluation of the Phase 2 of the Paris Declaration: An Independent Review of Strengths, Weaknesses, and Lessons Learned (Michael Quinn Patton & Jean Gornick)
• DAC Evaluation Network "Evaluation in Development Agencies: Joint Evaluations" (extract, OECD 2010)

 

Presentations:

• Programming and Engaging Stakeholders in the Paris Declaration Evaluation
• Joint Evaluation in Nepal: Experience Sharing from the Paris Declaration Evaluation
• Budget Support Evaluation: Mutual Trust
• Partner Country Perspective: Bolivia
• Aiding the Peace - Multi-donor evaluation of support to conflict prevention and peacebuilding in Southern Sudan, 2005-2010
• Governance and Management Structures of the Paris Declaration Evaluation in Uganda
• Co-ordination of multi-site evaluations: design, support for execution, QA and synthesis in the Paris Declaration Evaluation
• Making a difference with the evaluation – Input to policy and decision making
• Feedback Mechanisms in Malawi: Key challenges and way forward 

 

Representatives from the African Development Bank, Bangladesh, Canada and Cambodia (left to right) discussing management of joint evaluation at the 8 February 2012 Workshop on Joint Evaluations in Paris.

 

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