Asian Evaluation Week 2016
5 to 9 September 2016

This inaugural learning event, co-sponsored by the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Finance Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute, and the Asian Development Bank Independent Evaluation Department, focused on the exchange and synthesis of ideas on the latest and practicable thinking on evaluation.

Gathering around 25 countries from Asia and the Pacific; heads of evaluation units of multilateral development banks in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America; heads of evaluation units of UN agencies; and international evaluation experts, this event was organized in response to the growing attention on the use of evaluation for better results and accountability and aimed at enhancing evidence-based decision making to contribute to the development of Asia.

It is expected that this event will be repeated in the succeeding year and will become an annual event in bringing together evaluation colleagues to discuss the recent trends in evaluation thinking.

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 1 - Opening Session Zhengwei Zhang, Kouqing Li, Walter Kolkma
Session 1 - Opening Session Overview of the Agenda Farzana Ahmed
Session 2 - How Evaluation Informs Public Policy Keynote Indran Naidoo
Session 2 - How Evaluation Informs Public Policy Case Study Vijaya Vadivelu
Session 3 - Equality in Education Evaluation in the People's Republic of China Keynote Tao Zuo
Session 3 - Equality in Education Evaluation in the People's Republic of China Case Study Hui Zhang
Session 3 - Equality in Education Evaluation in the People's Republic of China Presentation Riccardo Polastro
Session 4 - Strategies for Empowering Women: Lessons from Gender Responsive Budgeting Keynote Yamini Mishra
Session 4 - Strategies for Empowering Women: Lessons from Gender Responsive Budgeting Case Study Yumiko Kanemitsu
Session 4 - Strategies for Empowering Women: Lessons from Gender Responsive Budgeting Presentation Batchimeg Namsraidorj
Session 5 - Understanding and Supporting Equity and Gender Equality: Implications to Evaluate the Sustainable Development Goals Keynote Marco Segone, Patricia Rogers
Session 5 - Understanding and Supporting Equity and Gender Equality: Implications to Evaluate the Sustainable Development Goals Presentation Riccardo Polastro
Session 6 - Evaluation and the People Republic of China's Public Financial Management Reform Keynote Yongjun Wang
Session 6 - Evaluation and the People Republic of China's Public Financial Management Reform Case Study Zecai Wang
Session 7 - Farmer Organizations and Smallholder Access to Markets - Drawing Policy Lessons from Evaluation Syntheses Keynote Michael Dominique Carbon
Session 7 - Farmer Organizations and Smallholder Access to Markets - Drawing Policy Lessons from Evaluation Syntheses Case Studies Carlos Tarazona, Fazlul Kader
Session 7 - Farmer Organizations and Smallholder Access to Markets - Drawing Policy Lessons from Evaluation Syntheses Presentations Hyuk-Sang Sohn, Aziz Aliev, Andrew Brubaker
Session 8 - Evaluating Economic and Social Impacts of Transport Projects Keynote Naoyuki Yoshino
Session 8 - Evaluating Economic and Social Impacts of Transport Projects Case Study - Participatory Evaluation of Rural Roads
This presentation discusses the participatory evaluation approach which assesses economic and social impact by involving stakeholders in the process…
 Toshiyuki Yokota
Session 8 - Evaluating Economic and Social Impacts of Transport Projects Presentations Abdel Hameed Bashir, Chen Li
Session 9 - Evaluation of Industrial Transfer Keynote and Case Study Jian Qu
Session 9 - Evaluation of Industrial Transfer Presentations Rongxin Liu, Manyuan Zeng
Session 10 - Knowledge Management and Learning in Evaluation Keynote Hans van Rijn, Young Uck Kang
Session 10 - Knowledge Management and Learning in Evaluation Presentation Anuradha Palanichamy
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 11 - Evaluating Sustainable Development Goals and Multi-Goal Targets Keynote Vijaya Vadivelu, Heather Bryant
Session 11 - Evaluating Sustainable Development Goals and Multi-Goal Targets Presentation Qiam Mukhtar
Session 12 - Evaluating Science and Technology Interventions in the People's Republic of China Keynote Ruijun Wang
Session 12 - Evaluating Science and Technology Interventions in the People's Republic of China Case Studies Huaibin Xing, Yun Yang
Session 12 - Evaluating Science and Technology Interventions in the People's Republic of China Presentations Minrong Li, Xiaoyong Shi
Session 13 - Using Evidence for Making Decisions about Environment and Growth Trade-Offs: What Do We Know and What Do We Need? Keynote Jyotsna Puri
Session 13 - Using Evidence for Making Decisions about Environment and Growth Trade-Offs: What Do We Know and What Do We Need? Presentations Michael Bamberger, Michael Dominique Carbon, Pernelle Smits
Session 13 - Using Evidence for Making Decisions about Environment and Growth Trade-Offs: What Do We Know and What Do We Need? Impact Evaluation of Environmental Outcomes
Impact evaluation (IE) is both a possible and vital component in implementing environmental programs and in achieving the desired environmental…
 David Raitzer
Session 13 - Using Evidence for Making Decisions about Environment and Growth Trade-Offs: What Do We Know and What Do We Need? Asian Evaluation Week 2016 - Discussion Highlights - Session 13
Session 14 - Integrating Big Data and Smart Data Analytics into the Evaluation of Development Programs Keynote Michael Bamberger
Session 14 - Integrating Big Data and Smart Data Analytics into the Evaluation of Development Programs Case Study Diastika Rahwidiati
Session 14 - Integrating Big Data and Smart Data Analytics into the Evaluation of Development Programs Presentations Jyotsna Puri, Vijaya Vadivelu
Session 15 - Evaluating Health Interventions in the People's Republic of China Keynote Zhaoyang Zhang
Session 15 - Evaluating Health Interventions in the People's Republic of China Case Studies Zhaoyang Zhang, Lei Wang
Session 16 - Evaluating Urban Development Interventions: The Latin American Experience Keynote Juan Manuel Puerta
Session 16 - Evaluating Urban Development Interventions: The Latin American Experience Case Study Cheryl Gray
Session 17 - How Census Data Informs Policy Formulation Keynote Alexandra Chambel
Session 17 - How Census Data Informs Policy Formulation Case Study Jordi del Bas
Session 17 - How Census Data Informs Policy Formulation Presentations Khaing Khaing Soe, Razali Ritonga, Mashud Alam
Session 18 - Performance Evaluation in the People Republic of China's Agricultural Sector Keynote Xueling Chu
Session 18 - Performance Evaluation in the People Republic of China's Agricultural Sector Case Study Qiming Liu
Session 19 - Strengthening the Demand and Use of Evaluation in Policy Making Keynote Marco Segone, Asela Kalugampitiya
Session 19 - Strengthening the Demand and Use of Evaluation in Policy Making Presentations Rangina Kargar, Ananda Pokharel, Buddhika Pathirana, Arunaselam Rasappan, Karen Rot-Munstermann
Session 20 - Evaluating Risk Keynote Patricia Rogers, Michael Bamberger
Session 20 - Evaluating Risk Presentation Sasae Walter
Session 21 - Evaluating Knowledge Sharing Keynote Suk-Won Lee
Session 21 - Evaluating Knowledge Sharing Case Study Jae Eun Shin
Session 21 - Evaluating Knowledge Sharing Presentations Hyuk-Sang Sohn, Jeffrey Singer
Session 22 - Gender Equality in Development Keynote Caroline Heider
Session 22 - Gender Equality in Development Case Studies Elena Bardasi, Shagun Sabarwal
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 23 - Moving Towards Environmentally Sustainable Growth Keynote Walter Kolkma
Session 23 - Moving Towards Environmentally Sustainable Growth Presentations Hideyuki Mori, Robert Dobias, Sohail Hasnie
Session 24 - What is Meant by Inclusive Growth at the Macroeconomic Level and How it Can be Measured? Presentations Muhammad Quibria, Veronique Salze-Lozac'h, Yan Wang, Joanne Asquith
Session 25 - Open Discussion
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 26 - Linking Evaluation to Food Security Policy Keynote Masahiro Igarashi
Session 26 - Linking Evaluation to Food Security Policy Case Studies Dorjee Kinlay, Aziz Aliev, Michael Dominique Carbon
Session 27 - What Works in Promoting Private-Sector Growth? Evidence from Evaluation Keynote Rakesh Nangia
Session 27 - What Works in Promoting Private-Sector Growth? Evidence from Evaluation Presentations Rakesh Nangia, Balbir Singh, Joseph Eichenberger, Caroline Heider, Hau Sing Tse
Session 28 - Evaluating Policy-Based Lending Keynote Cheryl Gray
Session 28 - Evaluating Policy-Based Lending Case Study Mark Sundberg
Session 28 - Evaluating Policy-Based Lending Presentation Joanne Asquith
Session 29 - The International Monetary Fund and Recent Economic Crises Keynote Shinji Takagi
Session 30 - Evaluating Megaregional Cooperation Initiatives in Trade, Infrastructure, and Public Goods Keynote Ganeshan Wignaraja
Session 30 - Evaluating Megaregional Cooperation Initiatives in Trade, Infrastructure, and Public Goods Case Study Marco Gatti
Session 30 - Evaluating Megaregional Cooperation Initiatives in Trade, Infrastructure, and Public Goods Presentations Minghui Shen, Rakesh Nangia, Juan Manuel Puerta
Session 31 - Addressing Complication and Complexity in Evaluation Keynote Patricia Rogers
Session 31 - Addressing Complication and Complexity in Evaluation Case Studies Michael Bamberger
Session 32 - Learning from Experience: How Can Countries Institutionalize and Promote the Use of Evidence in Development Decisions Keynote Caroline Heider
Session 32 - Learning from Experience: How Can Countries Institutionalize and Promote the Use of Evidence in Development Decisions Presentations Osvaldo Feinstein, Abdoulye Gounou, Arunaselam Rasappan, David Gomez Alvarez, Graciela M. Teruel Belismelis
Session 33 - Closing Session Wrap Up: Evaluation in Asia Going Forward Satish Rao, Caroline Heider, Walter Kolkma, Kouqing Li
Closing Remarks Kouqing Li
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Working Group Discussions

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Farzana Ahmed

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ADB Organizer/s

  • Independent Evaluation Department

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Partner Organization/s

  • Government of the People’s Republic of China, Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute

Topics

  • Evaluation