Session 1 of Brown Bag Series
''Professionalization of Evaluation: The Journey in Sri Lanka'' presented by Sri Lanka Evaluation Association and EvalYouth Sri Lanka was held on 29th April at 3.00 PM IST.

The webinar series on ‘Competencies for Evaluators’ which was organized by APEA and IRIPE started in April and completed in November 2021. This series consisted of eight informative webinars on different competencies which were important to professionals, especially YEEs in the M & E field.

VOPE’s Summit on Professionalization of Evaluation in the Asia Pacific
The first-ever VOPE’s Summit on Professionalization of Evaluation in the Asia Pacific region was held on November 20, 2021, at 10 am IST. This summit was organized by the professionalization thematic working group of the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association. The event was conducted online through the zoom platform.
The broader objective of this summit was to bring representatives from 31 VOPEs and 9 EvalYouth Chapters from the Asia Pacific region together to review the status of professionalization drive, bring fresh perspectives about the regional landscape of professionalizing evaluation and share some best practices.

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Virtual Consultation on Professionalization of Evaluation
The Online Consultation on Professionalization of Evaluation was successfully conducted on Thursday, 02 September 2021 from 5.30pm to 7.00pm IST. This consultation was organized by Inter-Regional Initiative for Professionalization of Evaluation (IRIPE) member VOPEs in collaboration with Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA), Eval4Action Campaign, and the Asia Pacific Communication Hub (APC). Around 160 participants representing different VOPEs, development organizations across the globe participated to this event . The objectives set out for this consultation are as follows:
- To create further awareness on need for the professionalization of evaluation
- To engage more actors in promoting professionalization of evaluation
- To improve IRIPE strategies with inputs received in the consultation

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