Promoting Evaluation in Policy-Making: EvalYear Roadmap

1. The International Year Of Evaluation 2015 Road Map

2. Declaring 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear) An opportunity for; Govts to take the leadership, policy makers to take the policy discussion forward, VOPEs to support relevant initiatives in strengthening demand and use of evaluation!

3. EvalYear, a catalyst to promote demand and use of evaluation in policy-making • Inauguration of EvalYear at country level • Evaluation policy process at country level • Promote national evaluation capacity building • Strengthening work with parliamentarians and policy makers (enabling environment) • Strengthening stakeholders and facilitate collaboration/ partnerships among them EvalYear, an opportunityto strengthen evaluation

4. EvalYear is a catalyst

5. Inauguration of EvalYear • Work with govts and other key stakeholders • Aiming at least one key event which can promote evaluation in each country • Examples; • Evaluation week • Inauguration ceremony at ministry level • Inauguration of national evaluation policy/ system/ guidelines • Establishment of evaluation office at president’s office/ ministry/ parliament

6. Evaluation policy process at country level • Launching the global mapping findings/ report • Identify key stakeholders at country level for national evaluation policy process • Working with and support to key stakeholders for evalpolicy process • Global focus on evalpolicy and simultaneous action around the world

7. Promote national evaluation capacity building • Partnership with govts, UN/donors, VOPEs and civil society • Govts play an important role in capacity building • Particular attention on CB of parliaments (legislation), policy makers and the govt • Promote national ownership and participation

8. Evaluation capacity building

9. Strengthening work with parliamentarians and policy makers • Support emerging parliamentarians groups • Facilitate experience sharing among parliamentarians groups • Working with and support to parliamentarians in national evaluation policy process • Working with regional bodies such as SAARC

10. Strengthening stakeholders and facilitate collaboration among them • Capacity building of stakeholders • Networking and support for EvalYear • Joint initiatives by stakeholders at country and regional level • Facilitate sharing best practices among stakeholders

11. Are we ready? • Are we ready to be the best example of; Govt, parliamentarians and VOPE working together to advance evaluation culture/ use of evaluation in our own countries? • What more should be done?

12. Thank you very much

13. Declaring 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear) We, evaluators from all over the world, declare 2015 as the international year of evaluation