The Minutes of the September 12, 2018, Board of Directors meeting is now available – in French and English- on the CES Website.

As the holiday season is just around the corner, all of us at CES National would like to sincerely thank you for being part of this wonderful evaluation community in 2018.

Congratulations to the student teams and their coaches from Chile, Czechia, England, Germany and Mexico who participated in the inaugural World Evaluation Case Competition!  Hats off to World Champions Team England and Honourable Mention Team Chile for their excellent submissions.

A new webinar, “Monitoring and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons” is now available for free for all CES members! It can be found on the webinars section of the website (you must be logged in to view).

We are very pleased to announce that thanks to the diligent work of the Competencies Review Working Group, CES’s Competencies for Canadian Evaluators have been updated.

Marthe Hurteau, PhD, CE, Isabelle Bourgeois, PhD and Sylvain Houle, PhD are publishing L’évaluation de programme axée sur la rencontre des acteurs : Une sagesse pratique (Program Evaluation Focused on the Meeting of Actors: Practical Wisdom) this month with the Presses de l’Université du Québec.

More than 200 delegates, including some 110 parliamentarians gathered in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from September 17 to 19, 2018.

The African Development Bank has recently devoted two issues of its quarterly publication Evaluation Matters to this subject.

The Minutes of the May 28, 2018, Board of Directors meeting, as well as the “Review of Executive Director contractor performance and CES contractor role, 2015-2018: process and timelines” are now available.

The Canadian Evaluation Society British Columbia Chapter is pleased to announce their 2018 conference, What's in Your Evaluation Toolbox?