ALT 2024 NEC Conference in Beijing

ALT 2024 NEC Conference in Beijing | Session: Evaluating Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Panelists: · Andy Rowe, Independent Consultant, Footprint Evaluation · Eddy Garcia, Head of Evaluation Unit, Ministry of Planning - Costa Rica · Gensuo Jia, Professor, CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics · Lei Tian, Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute, Academy of Macroeconomics Research · Camille Spencer, Program Director, M&E, Ministry of Planning and Development Moderator: Ketevan Nozadze, GEI

ALT Photo of Sanjeev Sridharan, Professor of Health Policy Evaluation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Accompanying quote reads: "Equity is being invited to a party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. It's not hard... to invite any number of people to a party. It's quite a different thing to get somebody excited to participate."

ALT Photo of Jörg Faust, Director of the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval). Accompanying quote reads: "For the future, we not only will have to focus on strengthening national or regional evaluation systems which are responsive to their particular cultural, political, social, and economic contexts. We also have to search for universal standards and principles which work across regions and across countries, which create a common language among evaluators, so they are able to jointly work together on the basis of such universal principles, norms, and standards."

ALT Photo of Isabelle Mercier, Director of the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office. Accompanying quote reads: "We cannot hope to capture the correct insights about public policies and programs if we don’t integrate the multiplicity of voices that are impacted by them. We cannot hope to implement quality programming if we don’t understand what works, and for whom. The good news is that evaluation is capable of supporting inclusion. It has the tools in its toolbox to provide a platform for inclusion."

ALT Photo of Timothy Lubanga, Commissioner for Monitoring and Evaluation at the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda. Accompanying quote reads: "We need to look at where we want to take society, and for us in the national government, where do we want to take our citizens in the future? Taking a futuristic approach is important, but we have to do it within the context of giving hope, giving direction, and giving assurance to our citizens."

ALT Photo of Silvia Grandi, Deputy Director of Evaluation at Global Affairs Canada. Accompanying quote reads: "Broad representation of the diversity of evaluation stakeholders in the evaluation process is a first key step towards inclusion. And this includes people and actors who are not usually included in our evaluation processes, those who are more difficult to reach, those who are further away from our capital."

ALT Photo of Richard Jones, Deputy Director of the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office. Accompanying quote reads: "I want my children to have a future that has optimism, that has a better world, so that they won’t face the same problems that I’m seeing today... conflict, inequality, upheaval, and a sense of pessimism about our future. Evaluation has an important and essential role in shaping that future and informing that future."