10.00 – 11.00 | Plenary session. Official opening of the conference. Jean Quesnel, Canada “Performance management” Segone Marco, Switzerland, “The role of M&E in ensuring Effective Performance” |
11.30 – 13.00 | Session 1. Evaluation capacity development at the regional and country levels Ter-Abrahamyan Kristine, Armenia «The role, understanding and challenges of monitoring and evaluation in Armenian NGOs, Donor and State organizations: comparative perspective» Assanova Jamila, Kazakhstan “Potential for evaluation development in the Central Asia” Atakhanova Kaisha, Kazakhstan “Development of evaluation of government programs in Kazakhstan Republic” | Session 2. Evaluation and organizational effectiveness Avagyan Anna, Armenia, «Institutionalization of lessons learned identified through M&E» Ter-Abrahamyan Kristine, Armenia “Monitoring and evaluation system and lessons learned at World Vision Armenia” Margaryan Tatevik, Edilyan Zhirayr, Ŕđěĺíč˙ “Service evaluation at CDPF: role and features” | Session 3. Evaluation in civil society development Doholian Zhanna, Armenia “Positive impact of CCDI programs on the processes of democratic transformation of civil society” Musakhanyan Aram, Armenia «Evaluation of intermediate results of Advocacy Initiatives» Hoktanyan Varuzhan, Armenia «Monitoring of the Election Campaign Finance in Armenia: 2007 Parliamentary and 2008 Presidential Elections» |
14.30 – 16.00 | Session 4. Evaluation capacity development at the regional and country levels Tretiakova Tatyana, Khamzina Saule, Kyrgyzstan “Decision making capacity of organizations and evaluation” Saakashvili Nino, Georgia “Perspectives for the Evaluation Development in Georgia” | Session 5. Evaluation and organizational effectiveness Ayrapetyans Anika, USA “The role of M&E from multi-geographical and multi-program perspectives” Tiushkevitch Natalia, Russia “Program evaluation as a component of optimization of organization’s activities” Palivoda Lyubov, Ukraine “To what extent does the organization development of NGOs allows them to make high demands of the government entities?”
| Session 6. Evaluation from donors’ perspective Vadrapetyan Anait, Armenia “Project and program effectiveness evaluation: experience of the Small and Medium Business Foundation” Martirosian Gayane, Armenia “Improving donors organizational effectiveness on the basis of evaluation of its grantees’ programs”
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16.30 – 17.30 | Session 7. Evaluation and organizational effectiveness Kuzmin Alexey, Russia “How to maximize usefulness of evaluation for organization” | Session 8. Evaluation from donors’ perspective Russon Craig, Switzerland «How to build an effective evaluation system in donor organization» |