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Past webinars

Jul 27, 2021

The UN Food Systems Pre-Summit 2021: Evidence pathways to gender equality and food systems transformation

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are high on the international political agenda, but progress has often faltered on the evidence needed to...

Speakers: Andrea Cook, Indran Naidoo, Allison Grove Smith, Julia Betts

Jul 15, 2021

FSS Independent Dialogue: The role of evaluation in moving towards zero hunger and sustainable food systems: challenges and solutions

This Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue involved representatives from the evaluation community to discuss the role of evaluative evidence in...

Speakers: Michael Quinn Patton, Marie Gaarder, Philippe Ellul

Facilitators: Olivier Cossée, Deborah McWhinney, Svetlana I Negroustoueva, Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan

Jun 17, 2021

Les bonnes pratiques en matière d'évaluation sensible au genre pour nourrir le monde: agriculture, sécurité alimentaire, développement rural

Il existe de nombreuses approches permettant d'aider les évaluations à identifier et traiter les inégalités liées au genre. Ce webinaire réunira des...

Speakers: Florencia Tateossian, Filippo Pompili, Sabrina Aguiari, Bintou Nimaga, Serge Eric Yakeu Djiam

Jun 04, 2021

The impacts of COVID-19 on the Italian Agriculture & Food sector: what can we learn to build forward better more resilient and sustainable food systems?

This gLOCAL event took a close look at how the pandemic affected the Italian agriculture and food sector and discussed the response that the national...

Speakers: Fabrizio Felloni, Simona Cristiano, Annalisa Zezza, Luca Cesaro

Jun 03, 2021

Building on national expertise for adaptive evaluation practice

This gLOCAL event aimed to take a step back to reflect on some of the evaluation practice adaptations during the pandemic and identify those that...

Speakers: Masahiro Igarashi, Aurelie Larmoyer, Eoghan Tomás Molloy, Arjumand Nizami, Khalid El Harizi, Mustapha El Haiba

Jun 02, 2021

Whose reality counts in evaluation? Building forward better with people-centered and adaptive evaluations

This gLOCAL event developed from two key and interrelated topics that emerged over the last year in the knowledge sharing among members of the...

Speakers: Indran Naidoo, Johanna Pennarz, Julie Thoulozan, Malika Bounfour, Nayeli Almanza, Prashanth Kotturi, Binod Chapagain

Facilitators: Jennifer Nzambi Mutua, Dee Jupp

Jun 01, 2021

Building forward better on food security: using evidence for a post-Covid19 world without hunger

This gLOCAL event engaged policy makers, programme managers, technical and financial partners in discussing what and how we can learn from evaluative...

Speakers: Andrea Cook, Patrick Breard, Sarah Laughton, Patrick Jacqueson, Joan Carling

Facilitators: Carlos Tarazona

Apr 30, 2021

EvalForward Talks: How to best evaluate capacity development?

This EvalForward Talks session will invite participants to share experiences and explore challenges and approaches for measuring and evaluating the...

Speakers: Cornelia Rietdorf

Apr 15, 2021

Good practices in Gender-Responsive Evaluation for feeding the world: agriculture, food security, rural development

Several approaches are available to support evaluations in identifying and addressing gender inequalities. This webinar will bring together experts...

Speakers: Florencia Tateossian, Johanna Pennarz, Eoghan Tomás Molloy, Natalia Kosheleva, Nuha Jameel Bashir, Donna Podems

Mar 26, 2021

EvalForward Talks: Understanding first: why putting understanding before measurement matters

"Measure" often seems a first and foremost step to capture change. Biased by the well-known saying “if it cannot be measured it cannot be managed”...

Speakers: Silva Ferretti

Feb 19, 2021

EvalForward Talks: How do you communicate difficult evaluation findings?

This EvalForward Talks session discussed the challenges and solutions on how to communicate difficult findings to evaluation commissioners / donors /...

Speakers: Jennifer Nzambi Mutua

Dec 11, 2020

EvalForward Talks: Remote evaluations during COVID-19: how can we cope and adapt? What are the best solutions?

Join your peers for an informal knowledge-exchange session to share the challenges you are facing and the solutions you adopted to overcome them in...

Speakers: Renate Roels

Dec 02, 2020

Suivi & évaluation dans le secteur agricole : quelles sont les capacités ?

EvalForward and the Réseau Francophone de l'Evaluation organised a webinar and panel discussion in French to promote knowledge exchange and draw...

Speakers: Rodrigue Owoumbou, Louisette Bamzok, Dreni-Mi Mahamat Djimé, Laurent Barbut

Jul 21, 2020

Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19

AVANTI and EvalForward organized an e-Panel to discuss challenges and explore solutions to data quality production in the agriculture sector in the...

Speakers: Tim Njagi, MICHEL ARMAND ZOA, Joas Tugizimana

Jun 05, 2020

gLOCAL event: Building bodies of impact evaluation evidence

This virtual roundtable was organised by the evaluation office of WFP with support of EvalForward in the context of the gLOCAL Evaluation Week. The...

Speakers: Jonas Leo Heirman, Hanna Paulose, Kristen McCollum

Jun 04, 2020

gLOCAL event: How do innovative evaluations contribute to achieving SDG2?

In the context of the gLOCAL week, the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP with the support of EvalForward organized the online learning event...

Speakers: Masahiro Igarashi, Carlos Tarazona, Hansdeep Khaira, Johanna Pennarz, Max K. Kodjo , Yumiko Kanemitsu, Keisuke Taketani

May 06, 2020

e-Panel on Leadership and RBM in the African Agricultural Sector

Experts from Benin, Ghana and South Africa discussed on the importance of leadership and results-based management (RBM) in the African agricultural...

Speakers: Ian Goldman, Elias Akpé Kuassivi Segla, Angela Dannson

Apr 22, 2020

Les nouveaux critères d’évaluation du CAD de l’OCDE

Ce webinaire, organisé par EvalForward et par le réseau du CAD sur l’évaluation du développement EvalNet, présente les critères d’évaluation du Comité...

Speakers: Megan Kennedy-Chouane

Facilitators: Rachel Sauvinet Bedouin

Feb 12, 2020

The new OECD DAC evaluation criteria: what changes for agriculture and food security?

This webinar presented the revised OECD DAC Criteria to interested members of the EvalForward Community of Practice with examples on their...

Speakers: Megan Kennedy-Chouane

Facilitators: Rachel Sauvinet Bedouin

Oct 30, 2019

Use of synthesis and meta-analysis in development evaluation

This webinar presented the experience of different UN agencies and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in using synthesis and...

Speakers: Carlos Tarazona, Andrew Fyfe, Mark Engelbert