Systemic Approaches in Evaluation

On January 25 and 26, 2011 the Evaluation and Audit Division of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Evaluation Unit of GIZ offered a forum to discuss systemic approaches to evaluation at an international conference.

More than 200 participants from academia, consulting firms and NGOs discussed, amongst others, the following questions:

• What are systemic approaches in evaluation?
• For which kind of evaluations are systemic approaches (not) useful? Can they be used to enhance accountability, for example?
• Are rigorous impact studies and systemic evaluations antipodes or can we combine elements of both approaches?
• Which concrete methods and tools can be used in systemic evaluation?

http://www.evaluation-conference.de/en/index.html

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