The CES Alberta and NWT Chapter Advocacy Working Group will be spending the next three months conducting an Environmental Scan of Evaluation Capacity in Alberta, and are interested in hearing from other CES chapters who have previously conducted evaluation capacity environmental scans.

The African Evaluation Association launched the African Evaluation Journal last Fall (2013), which can be accessed online free of charge. This new journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles, in English or in French, once a year. The journal aims to contribute to building evaluation-related knowledge and practice, in support of effective developmental policies on the African continent.

Evaluators read, write, collect data, think, make judgments, and... listen a lot. But, how well do we listen? Richard Kreuger (author of the classic Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research, Sage) talks about Qualitative Listening in this interview he gave to Susan Eliot, who published it on her blog The Listening Resource.

The Nova Scotia Chapter of CES is supporting students in the Master in Public Administration (Management) (MPA(M)) at Dalhousie University, Halifax through the "Issues in Public Sector Evaluation: Fifteen Great Ideas" event. The University and the Chapter are promoting attendance at the session, where students will present their research on issues in evaluation. The Chapter is hosting a reception for students and will introduce them to the CES.