At Sept 3, 2024, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association, in collaboration with Global Fund for Children, Grow Your Reader, and Rural Aid, hosted an interesting session on how communities and young people contribute to disseminating baseline findings. The session focused on case studies from Bangladesh and India, featuring young people involved in the studies from both countries. Each of the young people shared their impressions of the baseline findings and how they disseminated the information to their local communities.
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Community Ownership Sessions-EvalFest 2024
The pre conference workshop on the Role of the Community in Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation; Meet Members of the Community of Practice Organized by Porticus and Lady Irwin College was held on 20th February 2024 at Lady Irwin College. This workshop was facilitated by Amol Shaila Suresh, Bhuban Bajracharya, Jhank Shrestha, Madhuka Liyanagamage, Randika De Mel, and Rituu B Nanda from the Community Practice Group in MEL and Research part of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA). Around 50 participants took part in this workshop.
The Session on Who Dives MEL? Who Uses MEL? Organized by Porticus was held on 21st February 2024 at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi during EvalFest 2024. This session aimed at presenting the discourse surrounding the role of communities in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) and research, with an intention to build upon outcomes of the deliberations.
The session objectives were as follows:
Initiate a dialogue between funders, evaluation professionals, youth and community based organizations;
Participants feel energized and motivated to share power and foster collaborative efforts towards meaningful participation.
This session was facilitated by Amol Shaila Suresh, Bhuban Bajracharya, Ana Erika Lareza, Garima Agrawal, Jhank Shrestha, Madhuka Liyanagamage, Namita Dandekar, Nita Aggarwal, Randika De Mel, and Rituu B Nanda from the Community Practice Group in MEL and Research part of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA). For this session around 40 participated.
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Virtual Launching of the Community of Practice on Community of Ownership in Evaluation - 16 February 2023
Webinar on ''Our Current Journey: Processes and Results of a Community-led M&E Pilot in Cambodia and the Philippines"
This webinar was held on Thursday, 26th January 2023 at 06.30 PM IST.
Webinar on Shifting the Power in MEL: NGOs and Communities Take Ownership of MEL
This theme supports the 33rd SLEvA & APEA webinar which was held on Tuesday, 30th August 2022 at 6.00 pm IST .
The Launch of Each One Teach One Campaign
The campaign was successfully launch virtually on 06th July with the participation of evaluators, community leaders, YEEs across the world.
The 29th SLEvA webinar supported by APEA titled '' 10 Questions Indigenous Communities Should Ask Evaluators'' was held on 27th April 11.30 AM IST
Webinar on "A conversation on Funding Community Led Responses" was held on Thursday, 18th January 2022 at 14.00 - 15.30 CET.
Empowering Children through Monitoring and Evaluation
Asia Pacific Evaluation Association has partnered with Sri Lanka Evaluation Association for the Webinar on ‘Empowering Children Through Monitoring and Evaluation. This webinar was successfully held on 25th October 2021.
Walking with Communities and Citizens: An Online Consultation to Strengthen Community Ownership in Evaluation
The Online Consultation to Strengthen Community Ownership was held on Saturday, July 24th 2021 from 10.30am to 12.00pm IST. This consultation was organized by the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association in collaboration with Eval4Action, EMPower, The Constellation, EvalIndigenous and the Asia Pacific Communication Hub. Around 90 participated across the globe participated in this consultation. The objectives of this consultation were to create awareness of the importance of strengthening community ownership in evaluation studies, to develop individual actions and actions by community and organizations for community ownership in evaluation for the Asia Pacific Region.
Asia Pacific Evaluation Association partnered with Sri Lanka Evaluation Association for the webinar on ‘’Making Community Participation Meaningful;Lessons from EMpower’s Covid In Her Voice Report’’. This webinar was successfully held on 24th September 2021 with participation of professionals across the globe.
Blog article on ‘Reshape How We Think about Development and Evaluation’ written by Rituu B. Nanda and Randika de Mel based on the ‘Online Consultation to Strengthen Community Ownership in Evaluation’ held on 24th July 2021.
