Registration for our Skills-Building Days is now open!

14 Mar 2018

The Evaluation Skills-Building Days are a unique opportunity for humanitarian evaluation practitioners and, this year, monitoring practitioners. 

 

Please register here!

 

The days will strongly focus on learning exchange and networking in both fields. This will be done in open format sessions on day 1 and more structured formats on day 2.

Day 1
Session 1 | Purposeful Networking: 

The core aim of the morning session is to help participants make useful connections within the ALNAP Network and start having fruitful exchanges. Through a variety of activities participants will be encouraged to share expertise. Participants will also have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the ALNAP evaluation workplan. 

Session 2 | How to avoid reinventing the wheel? Peer-learning on sharing M&E good practice: 

The aim of this session is to provide a space for discussion and exchange on how different agencies ensure that worthwhile monitoring or evaluation practices are recognised, captured and shared across operational contexts. Agencies will be encouraged to share different and creative approaches that are currently being used. 

Day 2
Session 1 | Where are we now? Real-Time Reviews and other learning-oriented activities: 

This session will look at the current state of play for real-time evaluations, real-time reviews, response reviews (…) and other more learning-oriented evaluative activities. It will offer a space for reflection on the approaches and tools used by different agencies and time for discussion with peers about challenges and potential solutions. 

Session 2: 

In the afternoon we will have two parallel skills-building sessions:

  1. Evaluation synthesis: Lessons learned exchange 
    As requested by 2017 Skills-Building Day participants, this session will focus on how to conduct evaluation synthesis, profiling the wealth of experience within the ALNAP Membership.
     
  2. Getting to better qualitative monitoring data and information
    This working session will serve to help inform ALNAP's new research on how to improve the quality and use of qualitative information for monitoring purposes in humanitarian action.
Other useful details:
  • ALNAP Members will be given priority to attend this event, but spaces are limited. We wish to have as many ALNAP Member agencies represented as possible. 
  • Space permitting, ALNAP Member agencies will be allowed to send two participants (one for monitoring and one for evaluation). Exceptions may be made for presenters.
  • Participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation. 
  • Non-Members can apply to be added to a waiting list.