2021 Asian Evaluation Week

DAY 1: September 6 (Monday) Time (UTC/GMT+8)
Opening session 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM Overview of agenda and announcements Sonia Chand Sandhu, Principal Evaluation Specialist, Independent Evaluation Department (IED), ADB Zhu Zhongming, Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance (MOF), People’s Republic of China (PRC) Bambang Susantono, Vice President (Knowledge Mgt and Sustainable Devt), Asian Development Bank (ADB) Marvin Taylor-Dormond, Director General, Independent Evaluation Department (IED), ADB Moderator: Li Kouqing, President of Shanghai National Accounting Institute (SNAI)/Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI), PRC Register in advance for this webinar: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lEOR0WcnSfmh_SNSn99KPA
Session 2: Ministry of Finance (MOF) Speeches (P.R. China) 9:40 AM – 10:15 AM Presenters: Yang Ruijin, Director General, Bureau of Supervision and Evaluation, MOF, PRC Wang Changhai, Director General, Budget Department, MOF, PRC Register in advance for this webinar: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lEOR0WcnSfmh_SNSn99KPA
Session 3: Enhancing quality in evaluation: from a methodological perspective (P.R. China) 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Takeaway: This session will share China’s exploration and experiences in enhancing evaluation quality through improving and innovating evaluation approaches and methods, and practices and experiences from ADB and World Bank will also be shared. Presenters: Liu Wenjun, Deputy Director General, Budget Appraisal and Evaluation Center, MOF, PRC Cao Tangzhe, Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, PRC Panelists: Zheng Yong, Vice President, Xiamen National Accounting Institute, PRC Maurya West Meiers, Senior Evaluation Officer, World Bank Maya Vijayaraghavan, Principal Evaluation Specialist, IED, ADB Moderator: Gao Daping, Vice President, Shanghai National Accounting Institute, PRC Register in advance for this webinar: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6PzYs74ySxi4NTd-S0uAmw
Session 4A: Promoting well-regulated development of third-party evaluation agencies to enhance quality and effectiveness of performance-based management (P.R. China) 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Takeaway: This session will share China’s experiences in promoting well-regulated development of third-party evaluation agencies to enhance quality and effectiveness of performance-based management. Presenters: Zhang Genghua, Secretary-General, China Appraisal Society Tang Jianhua, Deputy Secretary General, Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants Meng Zhaohong, Deputy Director General, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Finance, PRC Gong Ciyuan, Director, Performance Management Division Hunan Provincial Department of Finance, PRC Xu Xiaobei, Director, Financial Supervision and Performance Management Division, Sichuan Provincial Department of Finance Zhang Yongqing, Director, Performance Management Division, Yunnan Provincial Department of Finance, PRC Discussant: Tong Wei, Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, PRC Moderator: Qi Xiaohu, Chief Editor, Special Issue of China Financial and Economic News Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.com.cn/webinar/register/WN_IzN1VsK8Qq2nT5dRVYSRqg
Session 4B: Professionalization of evaluation: Competency framework, assessment and institutionalizing evaluation Profession (APEA) 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Takeaway: Participants will learn importance of competencies, academic courses, standards etc for enhancing professionalization of evaluation. Lead presenter: Asela Kalugampitiya, President, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association Panelists: Vlatko Danilov, Convenor, Inter-Regional Initiative for Professionalization of Evaluation (IRIPE) Alok Mishra, Deputy Director general, DMEO-NITI Aayog, India Alok Srivastava, Convenor, IRIPE Hasithi Samarasinghe, Co-leader, EvalYouth Sri Lanka Moderator: Keiko Nishino, Board member, Japan Evaluation Society Register in advance for this webinar: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VHhwBtX6TGG0VHrMlVZuag
Session 5: On the road to recovery: what we can learn from the private sector response to COVID-19 (EBRD) 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Takeaway: Participants will learn about prospects for post-Covid recovery and solutions for making Asian economies greener and more equitable for all. The objective of this session would be to highlight early lessons from the ongoing impact of the Covid pandemic to the private sector and discuss potential scenarios for the recovery. Lead presenter: Véronique Salze-Lozac'h, Chief Evaluator, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Panelists: Shinichi Nakabayashi, Board of Director Japan, EBRD Archi Rastogi, Evaluation Advisor, Independent Evaluation Unit, GCF Karen Rot-Münstermann, Acting Evaluator General for the Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank Nailya Shodorova, Director, Egistic Zhandos Kerimkulov, CEO, Egistic Moderator: Yeonji Kim, Communications Officer Independent Evaluation Unit, GCF Register in advance for this webinar: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gaSIACD1SAOlmS3xf-2UjA
Session 6: Transformative pathways to Food Security in the 21st Century – Resilience to Climate Change (UN, IFAD) 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Takeaway: The participants will hear from key experts on what the state-of-the-art evaluative evidence shows regarding the factors impacting on rural poor farmers’ ability to adapt to climate change and the socio-technical, societal and policy barriers limiting their ability to build resilience to climate shocks. Lead presenters: S. Nanthikesan, Lead Evaluation Officer, International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD) Jerry Knox, Professor, Cranfield University / Laura Silici, Research Analyst, Independent Consultant Panelists: Sani Redi, State Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia Sheikh Md. Mohsin, Additional Chief Engineer, Local Government Engineering Department, Ministry of Local Government, Bangladesh Moderator: Juha Uitto, Director, Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Register in advance for this webinar: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_47gKudyLRT2uplwEc13Qhg