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Call for Contributions

1. Introduction

The Community of Evaluators – South Asia (CoE-SA), in collaboration with the Gross National Happiness Commission of the Government of Bhutan will be holding the 4th Evaluation Conclave in Thimpu, Bhutan from 6 – 9 June 2017 (both days inclusive).

Contributions are invited from interested individuals/groups/Organisations for the following events:

• 6 - 7 June 2017: Pre-conclave workshops focussing on building skills in evaluation

• 8 9 June 2017: Conclave focussing on sharing experiences on evaluations

2. Themes/Strands

Conclave 2017 will focus largely on the relationship between well-being and sustainable development with a view to demonstrate the importance of evaluations in these areas. Conclave 2017 will be a forum for government, civil society, donors and evaluation fora to deliberate on a number of fronts, such as:

• Use of innovative methods and tools in evaluations [Use of innovative methods and techniques for conducting evaluations, collecting data and analytical representation; Innovative approaches to understand social changes.]

• Fostering governance, accountability, credibility and transparency [credible and transparent evaluations; observance of ethical norms relevant to different pluralistic cultural environments]

• Gender and equity [Ensuring good quality, equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations and their use in decision-making]

• Environmental sustainability [wise use of natural resources and promoting environmental sustainability]

• Poverty reduction [Exploring the analytical underpinnings of programmes supporting poverty reduction, both income and non-income dimensions, and on the processes for engaging with stakeholders to support poverty reduction]

• Inclusiveness and hard-to-reach [Evaluation findings to generate learnings and to contribute to the evidence base on good humanitarian practices and building resilience in the most fragile and conflict-affected situations]

• Partnership [forging lasting partnerships in evaluations, including community/ stakeholder participation]

3. Contributions

The Contributions addressing the themes/strands can be in the form of following:

(a) Organise a skills building or professional development workshop of 3 hrs (half day) or 6 hours (full day) [6-7June 2017]

(b) Organise a Demonstration of Skills of 1-2 hrs [6-7June 2017]: Show how to use or apply an evaluation concept or tool, with hands-on-experiences.

(c) Organise a pre-formed Panel of 1-1.5 hrs [8-9June 2017]: Focussing on an issue related to the theme of the Conclave. We recommend that panel presentations should be confined to a maximum of four persons to enable discussion after the presentations.

Those wishing to organize any of these events are expected to bear the cost of participation of resource persons. CoE SA will provide meeting halls and attendant services free of charge. Please complete the form (Annex 1) and send it to Ranjith Mahindapala<This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> by 15 February 2017.

(d) Presentation of Papers at Panels formed by the Secretariat [8 - 9 June 2017]:

Those who are interested in presenting a Paper at the Conclave on the themes indicated earlier should submit an Abstract as per the Guidelines attached (Annex 2). The Abstracts should be sent by email to <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> by 15 February 2017.

The Secretariat will review the Abstracts and will attempt to organize them to Panels, depending on the subject area.

4. Inquiries

Any general inquiries may please be sent to Ranjith Mahindapala, Executive Director, CoE-SA:<This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>.

Annex 2

Contents

TITLE

AUTHORS’ NAME(S) AND AFFILIATION(S)

KEY WORDS

INTRODUCTION

MATERIALS AND METHODS

RESULTS & DISCUSSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES ________________________________

Abstract length

The Abstract should contain no more than 600 words, or approximately 3-4 A4 text pages. Given the length, figures and photographs should be avoided, unless unavoidable.

Title

The title should be concise but informative.

Author names and affiliations

Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. If there is more than one author, indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after each author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and the e-mail address of each author. Present/permanent address: If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated.

Introduction

State, in summary, the objectives of the work and provide a short background with key information, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Material and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Results & Discussion

Given the limited length of the Abstract, Results and Discussion sections may be combined. Results should be clear and concise, and quantified as far as possible. The Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the study. A short conclusions and recommendations section can be presented at the end of the Discussion. These should be in the form of concise statements.

Keywords

Authors must provide 4 to 6 keywords below the Authors’ name line.

Acknowledgements

Place Acknowledgements, including information on any grants that supported the work, plus institutional support or help from colleagues, here.

References

Again, given the limited length of the abstract, only the essential references should be cited. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Some citation examples are given below.

Andrews, M (1983) Evaluation: An essential process. Journal of Extension [On-line] 21(5). Available at:http://www.joe.org/joe/1983september/83-5-a1.pdf

Arnold, M E (2006) Developing evaluation capacity in Extension 4-H field faculty: A framework for success. American Journal of Evaluation, 27(2), 257-269.

Boone, E (1985) Developing programs in adult education. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. Abstracts (in a word document) should be sent to <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>.

The closing date is 15 February 2017.

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