The virtual sessions in four languages (Arabic, English, French, Spanish) will be held concurrently at four times on Thursday, June 22, 2023, at the following Quebec Eastern Daylight-Saving Times (Time zone UTC -4)

8:30 – 9:30

Challenges of creating an evaluation lexicon in Arabic

Presenter: Mansour Chetoui, Linguistic Researcher, Inspector General of Preparatory and Secondary Education, Tunisia 

Panelists:

• Dr. Kaddour Mehiriz, Associate Professor, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

• Aref Ben Abdallah, Advisor, International Affairs, ENAP Quebec, Canada

• Dr. Richard Marceau, Associate Professor, ENAP Québec, Canada

• Dr Ahmed Abdelgawad, Evaluation Specialist, Islamic Development Bank

Moderator: Dr. Luna Shamieh, Senior Evaluation Expert, Hungary

10:00 – 11:00

Professionalization of evaluation in Saudi Arabia

Presenter: Dr. Anis Ben OMRANE, Evaluator, CBSA, Canada

Panelists:

• Aref Ben Abdallah, Advisor, International Affairs, ENAP Quebec, Canada

• Dr. Abdullah bin Farhan Al-Fayyad, Evaluation Expert, KSA

• Eng. Raed Tailakh Azmi, Senior Evaluation Expert, Jordan

• Dr. Anis Ben Brik, Founding Director, PROSPER, Coordinator, MSPPE, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

• Dr. Noura Alotaibi, Senior Evaluation Consultant, Al-athar Center, KSA

Moderator: Ghofran Ajimi, Expert M&E, Tunisia

11:30 – 12:30

Institutionalisation of the Evaluation Function in Morocco

Presenters:

• Ahmed Bencheikh, President of AME, Morocco

• Jamal Ramdane, Secretary general of AME, Morocco

• Said Mourabit , Country Economist, Islamic Development Bank, Morocco

Moderator : Ghizlane Khammal, Enabel, Board member of RFÉ and AME, Morocco

13:00 – 14:00

TAQYEEM – Pioneer Training Programme in Arabic in evaluation 

Presenter: Aref Ben Abdallah, Advisor, International Affairs, ENAP Quebec, Canada

Panelists :

• Elmoiz Mahmoud, Operations Evaluation Department, Islamic Development Bank, KAS

• Prof. Hanan Rage , National Planning Institute, Egypt

• Dr. Anis Ben Omrane, Evaluator, ASFC, Canada

• Dr. Noura Alotaibi, Senior Evaluation Consultant, Al-athar Center, KSA

• Dr. Luna Shamieh, Senior Evaluation Expert, Hungary

Moderator: Rasha Al Mutheib – Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development – KSA

8:30 – 9:30

Evaluation for Transformational Change: Lessons and Way Forward

Speaker: Juha Uitto, Director Independent Evaluation Office, GEF

Panelists:

• Osvaldo Feinstein, External Advisor, IEO/UNDP

• Lennise Baptiste, Secretary General, IDEAS

• Fabrizio Felloni, Deputy Director, IEO, IFAD

Moderator: Dirk Hoffmann, DEval

10:00 – 11:00

Review of the use of the OECD DAC criteria for evaluating humanitarian action 

Presenter: Susanna Morison-Metois, Senior Research Fellow. Learning and Accountability, ALNAP

Moderator: Jean Serge Quesnel CE FCES, President, SQEP

11:30 – 12:30 

EvalAgenda 2030: country-led evaluation for a wiser, more equitable, sustainable world

Organized by EvalPartners, IDEAS, UNICEF, Nigeria- OSSAP, WFP, UN Women

Panelists: 

• Bala Yusuf Yunusa, Special Advisor, OSSAP, Nigeria

• Kabir Hashim, Chair, Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation

• Synergia, NDP, Colombia

Moderator: Sarah Farina, EvalPartners, former CES president 

13:00 – 14:00 

Footprint Evaluation Approach

Panelists:

• Andy Rowe CE, FCES, ARCeconomics and Foorprint Evaluation

• Isabelle Mercier, Director of Evaluation, Global Affairs, Canada

• Jane Davidson, RealEvaluation and Footprint Evaluation

Moderator: François Dumaine CE, FCES, Prairie Research Associates

14:30 – 15:30 

Professionalization of Evaluation

Panelists:

• Susan A. Tucker, President, Evaluation & Development Associates LLC

• Jean Serge Quesnel, CE, FCES, President, SQEP

• Celeste Ghiano, Coordinator, ReLAC

• Samuel Kouakou, President 2IEval

• Mona Selim, Evaluation Officer, WFP

Moderator: Ada Ocampo, President, IDEAS

8:30 – 9:30

Challenges of an emerging VOPE by the Mali Association for the promotion of  evaluation (APEM) 

Panelists:

• Chiaka Dembelé, President, APEM

• Michée Sagara, Programme expert, MEAL, Mali

Moderator: Jean Serge Quesnel, CE, FCES, President, SQEP

10:00 – 11 :00

Institutionalisation of evaluation in Africa: Assessment and perspective at the  dawn of 2023-2030, EvalPartners by 2IEval (Ivory Coast)

Panelists:

• Samuel Kouakou, CE, President, 2IEval, Former VP of AFrEA

• Ousseni Kinda, Vice-Chair, AGDEN

• Sim-Yassah Badjo, Former Secretariate Chief, AFrEA, ReTEva mem

Moderator: Guillaume Aka, President, EvalYouth, Ivory Coast

11:30 – 12:30

Crossed views on Mapping Evaluation Professions by the Senegalese Evaluation  Association (SenEval)

Panelists:

• Abdoul Aziz Kane, President, SenEval

• Mohamed El Bachir Diop, Methodologist, Specialist in competency-based approach

• Anna Guèye, CE, Vice-President, SQEP, RFÉ Board member

Moderator: Bistra Petrova, Evaluation Advisor, TBS, Quebec

13:00 – 14:00 

Recent publication in French of benchmark books in evaluation, by SQEP

Presenters:

• ESG UQAM study on evaluative practices in the community setting in Quebec by Maude Léonard, ESG UQAM

• Evaluation Anthology by French Evaluation Society, by Agathe Devaux-Spatarakis, Quadrant Conseil

• Evaluation in the development context - Issues, Approaches and Practices by Lynda Rey, CE, ENAP, RFÉ Board Member

Moderator: Andrealisa Belzer, CE, President, Canadian Evaluation Society

8:30 – 9:30

Participatory evaluation with rural communities

Panelists:

• Pablo Rodríguez Bilella, PETAS_UNSJ, EvaluAR

• Joaquín Navas, DECI-IDRC

• Carmen Luz Sánchez, FSP, Chile

• Julio Paupitz, Former FAO advisor in Rural Community Development

Moderator: Cristiane Edna Camboim, ReLAC Board, Brazilian M&E Network

10:00 – 11:00

Experiences of evaluation of the fulfillment of the SDGs by governments 

Panelists :

• Eddy García, Head of the Evaluation Unit, MIDEPLAN, Costa Rica

• Elixon Naclares, Public Policy Evaluation Leader, DNP, Colombia

• Nataly Salas, Coordinator, Regional Office, Focelac, Costa Rica

Moderator: Viviana Lascano, Board member, ReLAC and SEE, Ecuador

11:30 – 12:30

Evaluation with population of difficult access

Panelists:

• Regislany Morais, Brazilian M&E Network

• Emma Rotondo, Peruvian Evaluation Network

• Laura Porrini, Argentinian Evaluation Association

• Gerardo Sánchez, IEAc, EvalYouth LAC

• Marcia Itzel Checa Gutierrez, ACEVAL-Mexico

Moderator: Ailhyn Bolaños, Board member of ReLAC and EvalCR

13:00 – 14:00

EvalyouthLAC  mentoring programme : Shaping experiences for transformative learning

Panelists:

• Gabriela Rentería Flores,  EvalYouth Global Leader

• Miriam Ordoñez Balanzario, Co-Leader , EvalYouthLAC

• Angie Pereira Calvo, Evaluator and Board member RedEvalCR

Moderator: Andrea M Wehrle, Regional Leader Evalyouth LA&C, ReLAC, REPAE