Webinar
Webinar: The use of evidence in African legislatures: The role of parliamentary networks
On Friday 27th April 2018, IDEV in collaboration with the Africa Development Institute at the African Development Bank Group hosted a webinar on the use of evidence in African legislatures. In this webinar, learn how the African Parliamentarians’ Network for Development Evaluation (APNODE) is working to increase demand for evaluation at the legislative level as well as some of the challenges and constraints it faces. The webinar was animated by Ms. Nagnouma Kone, APNODE coordinator.
Webinar: Most Significant Change (MSC) in evaluation: An Information Gathering Tool
On 7 June 2019, IDEV, held a webinar to examine the use of the Most Significant change (MSC) technique in evaluation as part of gLocal Evaluation Week 2019. It explored the evaluation of the AfDB’s decentralization strategy and process as an illustrative case. The MSC technique is a systematic, transparent and participatory method of collecting and analyzing qualitative information about change.
Webinar: Present to Persuade: Storytelling with Data Visualization
10 July 2019 - 10:00 am - 11:00 am GMT
This webinar is for participants who are interested in using data for impactful communication and who want to convert their ideas into reality without coding or design skills. The webinar will be a hands-on dive into creating eye-catching and professional data visualizations to convey your message online or in print. At the end of the session, you will feel empowered to create your own charts and infographics to share with the world.
The Presenters
Meta-evaluation Approaches to Improve Evaluation Practice
Meta-evaluation (MEv) is the evaluation of evaluations, the systematic review of evaluations to determine the quality of their processes and findings and the assessment of the role of evaluation in a policy sector or an organization. After exploring some of the key theoretical grounds of MEv, the webinar will share some examples of tailored MEv frameworks to assess the worth and merit of a set of evaluations going beyond the narrow conception of evaluation quality.
Webinar on Rapid Evaluation
Large evaluations (for example implementation evaluations) generate robust findings, but are often costly to implement and can take a long time to complete. Rapid evaluations address the need to quickly assess policy/programme/strategy/function delivery, and establish the main performance data, with main recommendations for improvements, while at the same time reducing the costs and time of evaluation projects.
Implementing the UN 2030 Agenda and its SDGs: What are African parliaments doing?
Translating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into tangible and measurable national policies and actions requires the involvement of parliaments. This webinar held on June 5, 2020 aimed to share parliaments’ experiences in identifying national priorities and providing guidance on their implementation to ensure that national actions reflect and address specific national needs and circumstances. The main challenges to meeting the SDG targets as well as efforts undertaken by parliaments to mitigate these challenges were also discussed.
Webinar: How does the African Development Bank ensure the quality of the projects it funds? – Insights from recent evaluations
This webinar aims to present the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the independent evaluations of Quality Assurance (QA) across the Project Cycle, the Quality at Entry and Quality of Supervision of the African Development Bank Group, during 2012-2017. It discusses the challenges as well as the context for ensuring a robust QA framework for public and private sector development projects. It also reveals the best practices for project QA learned from both the Bank and other development organizations.
Towards a socially-inclusive and environmentally-sustainable development: How does the African Development Bank do it?
This webinar aims to disseminate the findings, lessons and recommendations from the evaluation of the African Development Bank’s Integrated Safeguards System (ISS), and the actions the Bank is undertaking to ensure effectiveness of the ISS in achieving its safeguards objectives. The evaluation report presents an in-depth analysis of the relevance and robustness of the ISS design; the efficiency of the system, process, resourcing and the existing incentives; and its emerging effectiveness in achieving the Bank’s safeguards objectives.
How do Organizations Learn?
This “How do Organisations Learn?” recorded webinar animated by Ms. Erika Maclaughlin, Evaluation Officer , at the African Development Bank looks at theoretical perspectives from management science and industrial organizational psychology to identify a theory for how organizations learn. Reflecting on IDEV’s own experience, Ms. Maclaughlin explores the implications these perspectives have on planning for learning and the use of evaluation activities to contribute to the African Development Bank wider organizational learning agenda.