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Monitoring and evaluation conference: new developments and challenges
Organisation: INTRAC, PSO & PRIA
Start date: 14 June 2011

14-16 June 2011, The Netherlands

This international conference will examine key elements and challenges confronting the evaluation of international development, including its funding, practice and future.

The main themes of the conference will include: governance and accountability; impact; M&E in complex contexts of social change; the M&E of advocacy; M&E of capacity building; programme evaluation in an era of results-based management; M&E of humanitarian programmes; the design of M&E systems; evaluating networks, including community driven networks; changing theories of change and how this relates to M&E methods and approaches.

Filed under: Development

Planet of great opportunities, by Jan Pronk

This article is based on the Ryszard Kapuscinski Lecture given by Jan Pronk at the London School of Economics on February 16th, 2011. Sixty years after the birth of the new order in the mid 1940’s, Mr. Pronk questions where the world is today and points out the need to reform and strenghten international institutions in order to uphold global values. The integral text and a selection of some of the most significant parts of the lecture are published here.

The world needs common values and common institutions. Powerful institutions lacking shared values will breed disillusion and conflict. High moral values lacking strong insitutional protection will breed hypocrisy and exclusion (Jan Pronk).

via Society for International Development Forum » Planet of great opportunities, by Jan Pronk.

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How can better models of change sharpen up our work on development | Duncan Green

From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green.

Duncan Green, Head of Research for Oxfam GB and author of ‘From Poverty to Power’, has a new blog entry. It relates to our discussion about systems thinking in evaluation. What does complexity theory add to/subtract from our thinking about development?

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