The webinar will review the recent explosion of Interest in the Theory of Change and compare and contrast it to the more traditional Program Logic or Logical Framework Approach.

What will evaluation be like in 2025. Daunting prediction task tackled by Benoît Gauthier, CE.

The United Nations Evaluation Group has recently revised its "UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework" from 2008 as part of a broader agenda on professionalization in the UN system. Among other things, the webinar focused on the use of the evaluation competencies, and outlined what professionalization of evaluation means for the UN community.

April 27, 2016. This webinar will describe an alternative learning model: learning circles for advanced professional development in evaluation.

April 13, 2016. This webinar will focus on Twitter as a tool for learning, sharing, amplification and collaboration.

This presentation explains the relevance, methodology and the characteristics of the project of a dictionary of evaluation in English that utilizes the teachings of terminology to address a fundamental challenge of communication in our discipline.

This webinar will present an experience of a systemic evaluation using a participatory planning approach in a development context. Particular attention will be given to the presentation of the approach, the objectives, techniques, tools, data sources and stakeholders consulted, as well as benefits from the evaluation.

December 9, 2015. The Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation supports the professionalization of evaluation practice in Canada by defining and promoting ethical, high quality, and competent evaluation and by recognizing those who demonstrate their competency in specified competency domains. The third in a three-part series on the Credentialed Evaluator Program, this webinar outlines the CE maintenance requirements and suggests some strategies for maintaining this important professional designation.

October 28, 2015. The Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation supports the professionalization of evaluation practice in Canada by defining and promoting ethical, high quality, and competent evaluation and by recognizing those who demonstrate their competency in specified competency domains. The first in a three-part series on the Credentialed Evaluator Program, this webinar gives an overview of the development of the CE Program, its current status, and its plans for development.

September 30, 2015. Free for all CES members. In English. How can you evaluate the effectiveness of KT?  [...] This webinar will explore the complexities and challenges of evaluating KT and offer a simple evaluation framework that can be used across a variety of settings and contexts. Marla Steinberg has been a professional evaluator for over 25 years [...].

May 6, 2015. More and more community-based organizations are funded to engage in policy-influence or advocacy work to support the uptake of their programs. This webinar will explore the complexities and challenges of evaluating policy-influence work and introduce a new resource that evaluators, program implementers, and funders can use to facilitate the evaluation of policy-influence work.

March 25, 2015. This workshop will address your unanswered questions about logic models, what they really mean, and how to make them work for you.

December 11, 2014. There are many aspects of cross cultural and international evaluations that are similar to other types of evaluation work. However, some practises are particularly important, and they are the focus of this webinar.

June 26, 2014. The Canadian Evaluation Society Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation is the first professional credential offered in the world of evaluation. The webinar will briefly recount the history of the designation program, explain the advantages of the designation for various groups, report on key findings from a survey of CES members about professionalization and the designation, and describe the process to become a Credentialed Evaluator.

March 26, 2014. The webinar focuses on the issues and challenges encountered in implementing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in community settings. The RCT has the advantage of being the most rigorous design for making causal attributions about the effectiveness of an intervention.

December 11, 2013. Both researchers and evaluators find themselves conducting systematic inquiry for the purpose of answering questions about program processes and outcomes. Yet, research and evaluation are significantly different forms of inquiry. This presentation will first clarify the unique work of evaluators.

October 24, 2013. The guidance on Assessing Program Resource Utilization When Evaluating Federal Programs offers several approaches to measuring cost elements including activity-based costing (ABC). This webinar will present a quick overview of the measurement of economy and efficiency under the Treasury Board Evaluation Policy.

March 27, 2013. For the last fifteen years, Valéry Ridde has had the chance to use participatory approaches to evaluate programs (e.g., in Quebec or Afghanistan), to develop research actions (e.g., Burkina Faso), and more recently to mobilize the experiential knowledge of implementers of policy (the ‘policy makers' according to Lipsky) in Africa and analyze their processes. After a brief review of the key concepts of participatory evaluation, his presentation will focus on two recent capitalisation experiences that he and his teams conducted in West Africa.