In-house Trainings and Advisory services upon request
UNDP Yemen
Inhouse training for staff and implementing partners of UNDP Yemen on “Fundamentals of evaluation to commission, conduct and use evaluations”, May 7-11, 2023
The training was conducted in-person in Amman/Jordan by the IPDET instructors Prof. Dr. Reinhard Stockmann and Dr. Stefanie Krapp. 28 participants gained a comprehensive overview of evaluation and on how to do it: key concepts and approaches, designs and methods, process, standards and tools for planning, implementation, and utilization of evaluation.
Virtual inhouse training for staff and implementing partners of UNDP Yemen on “Introduction to Quantitative Impact Evaluation”, July and August 2023
The workshop was conducted online within five comprehensive sessions in July and August 2023 by IPDET`s instructor Dr. Claudia Maldonado. It was specially designed to address capacity-building and evaluability needs for UNDP Yemen in the context of moving towards an empirically-sound evaluative strategy and MEL model to assess impact of geo-bundling and its theory of change. Participants should have had some familiarity with the evaluation field (i.e. types of evaluation, principles of evaluation, uses of evaluation) and with social science research methodology. But no advanced training in statistics or statistical software was required. In total, 24 representatives of IPs and UNDP office Yemen staff participated in the training.
Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
Inhouse training for IsDB evaluators and operations specialists on “Fundamentals of evaluation to commission, conduct and use evaluations”, September 24-30, 2023
Islamic Development Bank strengthens decision-making through Evaluation
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is using evaluation to make its decision-making processes at both the programmatic and strategic levels even more evidence-based. The aim is to strengthen the operational departments’ understanding of the importance of evaluation in the program cycle. The requirements for high-quality evaluations are to be created as early as the program planning stage. In addition, IsDB promotes evaluative thinking at all levels of decision-making. To achieve these goals, the IsDB hosted a workshop for evaluators and program planners in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from September 24 to 30, 2023. The workshop, which was attended by about 30 participants from the Bank’s headquarters and its branches, was conducted by IPDET, the International Program for Development Evaluation Training. Dr Stefanie Krapp, head of the program at the University of Bern, was enthusiastic about the participants:“Rarely have we received so much commitment, motivation and active support in the implementation of a training course!”
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Stockmann from the Center for Evaluation (CEval) says:“The IsDB is on a good way to reach the set goals.”
He sees good chances that the motto of the five-day continuing education course “Better Decision Making through Evaluation” will become a reality.
The evaluation of the event seems to meet the expectations of the two course leaders: 97% of the participants stated in a final survey that they were satisfied or very satisfied with the course and almost all participants would recommend the course to their colleagues. This result speaks not only for the high quality of the course, but also for the great interest of the participants in using evaluation even more effectively than before for decision-making.
Author: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Stockmann, IPDET Steering Group member