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Closing Panel: Stakeholder Strategies for Strengthening the Institutionalisation of Evaluation
Time:
Friday, 19/Sept/2025:
12:30pm - 2:00pm
International conference stream (organised by Center for Evaluation (CEval) – Saarland University)
Presentations
Closing Panel: Stakeholder Strategies for Strengthening the Institutionalisation of Evaluation
Chair(s): Reinhard Stockmann (Centrum für Evaluation - Universität des Saarlandes, Deutschland)
Presenter(s): Michael Q. Patton (Utilization-Focused Evaluation), Stephane Jacobzone (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)), Khalil Bitar (International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)), Anis Brik (Hamad Bin Khalifa Universität, Qatar), Jacob von Weizsäcker (Finanzministerium des Saarlandes)
The panel marks the conclusion of the international section of the conference. The objective of this session is to discuss the future of evaluation, building on the outcomes of previous sessions.
After the keynote provided an overview of the institutionalization and use of evaluation in 50 countries across all continents and identified the driving and hindering forces for the development of evaluation, the keynote panel expanded on these findings. From a regional perspective, the global results were discussed along a series of questions and then concretized during the two panel sessions, focusing on different stakeholder groups.
In this closing panel, representatives from politics and administration, academia, international evaluation associations and multilateral organizations that analyze and/or support evaluation capacity development will discuss the future of evaluation on the basis of these results.
The guiding questions are as follows:
• How can the institutionalization and use of evaluation for evidence-based policy be progressed?
• What can parliaments, governments and their administrations, civil society, academia and evaluation associations contribute to this?
• Does evaluation even have a future under the given political and social conditions (e.g., populism, authoritarianism, fake news, AI, etc.)? And if so, what will this future look like?
