REAL WORLD EVALUATIONS

Conducting evaluations under budget, time, data and political constraints

Live Webcast Knowledge Sharing Event12 May 2009

This series of webcasts are based on the book published by UNICEF in partnership with key

international institutions

Authors:

21 global evaluation leaders

Partnership:

UNICEF, WB, UNECE, IDEAS, IOCE, DevInfo and MICS

Available for free download at:

http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/resources_10597.html

The recording of the previous webcast events are available at http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/resources_11137.html

First event on Country-led M&E systems with:

• the editor of the book, Marco Segone, Regional Chief, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF CEE/CIS;

• Oumul Ba Tall, President, IOCE;

• Denis Jobin, Vice President, IDEAS

Second event on Strengthening country-led M&E systems. Good practices in using Devinfo, with:

•Nicolas Pron, Global DevInfo Administrator

•Kris Oswalt, President, CSF

REAL WORLD EVALUATIONS

Conducting evaluations under budget, time, data and political constraints

Marco Segone, Regional Chief, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF CEE/CIS,

and former Vice President, IOCEE-mail: msegone@unicef.org

Introduction and kick-off questions

Evidence into practice: Increasing the uptake of evidence in policy

making

Data Data ProvidersProviders(Statisticians, (Statisticians, Evaluators, Evaluators, Researchers)Researchers)

Data UsersData Users(Policy Makers)(Policy Makers)

Need to improve dialogue

Improving “usability”of evidence

Reliableand

trustworthyevidence

Getting appropriate

buy-in

Incentives to use

evidence

What ?Why?

When?How?

Effective dissemination

Wide Access

The “quality” challenge: How to match technical rigour and policy

relevance?

Technical rigourTechnical rigourbut no policy but no policy

relevancerelevance

Policy relevance Policy relevance but no technical rigourbut no technical rigour

Better evidence, technically rigorous and policy relevant.

Country-led M&E systems (CLES):

a strategy to matcha strategy to match technical rigour with policy relevancetechnical rigour with policy relevance

Technical rigourTechnical rigour

but no policy relevancebut no policy relevance

Policy relevance

Policy relevance

but no technical rigour

but no technical rigour

Better evidence,

technically rigorous

and policy relevant

Better Better PoliciesPolicies

Better Better Development Development

ResultsResults

Key questions

• What are the key features of the Real World Evaluation (RWE) approach and how can it contribute to developing country-led M&E systems?

• How can RWE contribute to improving the quality of impact evaluations when working under real-world budget, time, data and political constraints?