APEC Workshop on Promoting the Development of an Evaluation Community

Summary

This project organized and hosted a two-day workshop (October 30 and 31, 2017) in Bangkok, Thailand.  The workshop brought together policy makers and the evaluation practitioners to highlight the value of evaluation and discuss the idea of developing an evaluation community. In addition to the Project Overseer, his consultant and four Experts, there were 16 participants from 10 member economies: Chile, China, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam.

This workshop provided insights of the value of having robust evaluation practices and open a dialog between APEC policy makers and evaluators through the presentation of best practice, case studies and workshop sessions. The workshop turned out to be an important step in developing a platform to discuss and exchange experiences, current strategies, policies, protocols, and regulations for designing and implementing program and policy evaluations. 

The workshop was co-located with the International Energy Policy and Program Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC) which was held on November 1 and 2 at the same venue, and several of the workshop participants also attended IEPPEC. Papers and presentations from this conference are available for downloading for free at: www.ieppec.org.

The aim of the workshop was to begin a capacity building process through enabling a robust environment for evaluation, strengthening institutional capacity, and improving individual evaluator capacity. We are in the process of developing an Evaluation Action Plan which will identify the next steps to capacity building.

The Final Report will include the Evaluation Action Plan, Evaluation White Paper, and Workshop evaluation survey.