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This session will share China's experiences in strengthening performance evaluation in order to promote high-quality development in areas such as poverty alleviation, education, environmental governance and infrastructure development.
Japan’s official development asssistance to People's Republic of China marked its 40th Anniversary in 2019 and is close to its end. JICA conducted a synthetic review on its assistance to China on environment and infectious disease control that have been the main areas of cooperation in the 2000s.
Participants will learn how parliaments successfully use evaluation for the oversight function and how the evaluation community can support parliaments. There are several parliaments made efforts to institutionalize evaluation to strengthen the use of evaluative evidence for policy making. Participants will have an opportunity to listen to parliamentarians for hands on experience.
This session will share China's practices and experiences in promoting the reform of performance-based budget management in order to improve efficiency of financial resource allocation and utilization.
Participants will know how Supreme Audit Institutions and China’s National Audit Office are working in collaborative and innovative ways to examine how effective the governments have been at integrating the SDGs into national development plans and in assessing progress that is being made on issues like poverty reduction, climate change and 3Is (industry, innovation and infrastructure).
Participants will learn how artificial intelligence can be used to unlock lessons and evidence-based knowledge, in context and intent, from independent evaluation reports. They will also will learn how EVA can help ADB staff access and use evaluation knowledge to feed in the project or policy design and implementation cycle.
LEAD PRESENTATION
THIS SESSION HAS BEEN MERGED WITH SESSION 6.
SUBTHEME: Role of evaluation in public financial management
The session will share recent analytical work on evaluating blended finance, including an assessment of key concepts used in blended finance evaluation, and an exploration of methods for evaluating blended finance modalities.
Participants will learn about the opportunities, challenges and methods of evaluating MDBs ability to mobilize private capital for development.
Participants will gain a better understanding of safeguard implementation challenges and evolving policy responses.
Participants will learn the role of VOPEs in strengthening national evaluation policies, systems & capacities and the challenges faced by VOPEs. The panel will explore experience in overcoming challenges for VOPEs to work in partnerships to maximize efforts in promotion of evaluation culture.
Participants will learn about the value and relevance of WASH across East Asia and the Pacific; how UNICEF is programming upstream work and developing modalities to deliver change and meet WASH – related indicators under Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 6.1 and 6.2; and why partnership approaches are critical to bolster pilot to scale interventions.
Participants will learn how innovative methods of visual thinking and facilitation can be applied to improve the use and influence of evaluation, from theory of change to validating key findings, from prioritizing key recommendation to communicating with stakeholders.
Participants of the session will learn how to mobilize and spur commitments from decision-makers, evaluation community and other stakeholders to develop stronger national evaluation systems and capacities, towards delivery of SDGs by 2030, with a focus on no one left behind.
Participants of the session will learn the critical building blocks for ensuring evaluation can provide strategic direction.
Participants will (i) learn from a practical example where the “ten-steps” methodology was used along with the Impact Investment Framework to support country led monitoring and evaluation system for private sector interventions; (ii) learn about existing opportunities to enhance the monitoring and evaluation practices of private sector interventions; (iii) understand the main challenges/gaps faced by private sector entities in undertaking the
Based on the findings and recommendations from the recently concluded ADB’s transport sector-wide evaluation, the session will discuss approaches to better support sustainable transport especially considering the COVID-19 crisis. Participants will also become familiar with the actual applications of emerging technologies being utilized for transport sector evaluation.
Participants will learn the importance of evaluation for achieving SDGs in the context of COVID 19. The panellists will include a parliamentarian, development partner, a public official, evaluator, youth bringing different perspectives on what has been achieved so far in promoting evaluation in implementation of SDGs and remaining gaps to be addressed by stakeholders.
Participants will learn about the new evaluation criteria definitions and principles for use, including the new criterion Coherence. Through the presentation of interesting and relevant case studies from Sri Lanka and from China, they will learn how to apply the criteria in national contexts, to credibly evaluate progress on sustainable development.
Participants will learn how results frameworks are developed to maximize utilization for decision-makers working in programmes focused on COVID-19. Participants will learn how existing methods, approaches and technologies have been adapted to provide evidence and insights within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a major crisis is unfolding in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many international finance institutions have deployed emergency packages involving intermediated lending, guarantees, and other forms of support to help small and medium enterprises to get through the downturn. Participants will learn about lessons drawn from past evaluations and discuss how these may apply in the current context.
Participants will understand the strengths and weaknesses of the IMF’s approach to working with a key partner organization on climate issues; how the IEO has framed its recommendations to help the IMF Board decide on the strategic direction of the Fund’s relationships with key partner organizations; and some lessons from the IEO’s experience of approaches to evaluating relationships between International Organizations.
Participants will be exposed to new techniques and methods of collecting information when traditional sources of data, such as surveys and face-to-face interviews are challenging due to costs, logistics or difficult environments such as during pandemics or in post-conflict areas.
COVID-19, climate change and other global crises clearly highlight the growing fragilities in societies and nature. Especially in situations of fragility, conflict and violence (FCV), systems-informed evaluation processes, methods and evidence can help accelerate the transformational changes and strategic support needed to strengthen resilience and deal with unpredictable, fluid situations.
The session will share concrete experiences from strategic evaluations, and the use of Theory of Change to enhance more ownership and use of evaluation results. The example of the recent evaluation of the UNIDO Partnership Country Programme (PCP) in Ethiopia would be presented to illustrate the impact drivers and preconditions for transformational change in a multi-stakeholder development intervention.
Participants will gain understanding of what Evidence Gap Maps are (tool), the objectives for employing them, lessons on how to make best use of them to engage intended users.
Additionality, the condition that MDB interventions have a positive impact on development, while not crowding out other market participants, by supplying inputs – financial and non-financial – which cannot be provided better from other sources, has recently gained increased attention, both from MDB shareholders and evaluators.
Participants will learn about the innovative use of geospatial impact evaluation through a case study focused on the use of geospatial data and machine learning to assess the horizontal and vertical spatial impact of the road construction projects in Maputo and Mumbai.
Participants will learn about the challenges of evaluating climate change adaptation efforts, including: lessons related to accounting for escalating climate risks; assessing the adequacy of global resource commitments; understanding national policy environment and incentives, local practices and knowledge, and the interaction between human and natural systems, to name a few.
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