Innovations in evaluation approaches and methods to improve our efforts to build forward better after COVID-19 Crisis in Rwanda
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About the Event
The event is expected to strengthen evaluation capacity of the RMEO members, share knowledge and experience of evaluation practices aimed at building back better. We envisage, the Skills’ building and M&E Knowledge Sharing event will involve various topics, Evaluation experts & practitioner within/outside RMEO and policy makers shall meet to share evaluation experience. Proposed topics are around: Innovations in evaluation approaches and methods to improve understanding of efforts to build back better after the COVID 19 Crisis, Lessons from evaluations about effective responses to past crises.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Janvier Mwitirehe | Founder | As a PhD candidate in Data Science with a Master of Public Health (MPH) in quantitative and econometric methods of health research, Mr Janvier Mwitirehe has strong backgrounds in biostatistics, econometrics and finance. |
| Victor Kabanda | Chairperson, Capacity Building and Quality Assurance Sub-Committee | Victor Kabanda is a monitoring and evaluation professional with more than eight years of direct experience in project M&E. Since January 2021 He has been serving as the Monitoring and Partners’ Insights for the MasterCard Foundation where he supports the M&E work for its partners in Rwanda. |
Summary
1. Nothing remains the same; traditional methods are no longer feasible. We need to “embrace the complexities and non-linear change” and upgrade our skills and knowledge.
2. The biggest change we need to make in our practice is in how things are done, not what is done. Maintain updated context and situation analysis information – Cause, timescale and frequency, areas and populations affected, capacity gap analysis.
3. Build System thinking and adaptive learning systems - Adapt plans, program designs and strategies, update theories of change. Consider evaluability assessments to look at Clarity, Relevance, Plausibility, Validity or reliability, Testability, Contextualized, Consistent, Complexity, and agreement
1. Establishing a capacity development calendar for RMEO members
2. Strengthening RMEO capacities to cope with the technological advance, be more visible and to provide its contribution to the realization of SDGs [going digital, real-time data/evaluation, data science knowledge].