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Conference Agenda

For the first time, the DeGEval Annual Conference features an international stream. This stream presents findings from the CEval Evaluation GLOBE Project, which comprises 50 country case studies and 11 reports from transnational organizations, offering a global overview of developments in the institutionalization and professionalization of evaluation, as well as of enabling and hindering factors.

Sessions in the international stream are marked in orange. Yellow indicates sessions held entirely in English (outside the international stream), while light yellow marks sessions with individual English contributions. All other sessions are conducted in German, even if their titles appear in English in the translated programme overview.

Only Sessions at Date / Time

Session Overview

Session

The Role of Parliaments, Governments and Administration in Institutionalizing Evaluation

Time:

Thursday, 18/Sept/2025:

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Tanja Stockmann, Centrum für Evaluation - Universität des Saarlandes

Location: Geb. B 4.1, Hörsaal 0.19

International conference stream (organised by Center for Evaluation (CEval) – Saarland University)

Presentations

The Role of Parliaments, Governments and Administration in Institutionalizing Evaluation

Chair(s): Tanja Stockmann (Center for Evaluation - Saarland University, Germany)

Presenter(s): Gana Pati Ojha (Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal), Oludotun Babayemi (Cloneshouse), Krisjanis Veitners (Independent Evaluation and Monitoring Expert), Verena J. Dolabella (Senior Consultant Monitoring Evaluation & Learning)

This panel is part of the international track of the conference, which focuses on the findings of the CEval Evaluation Globe Project, and takes a closer look at a central theme emerging from the project: the role of parliaments, governments, and public administrations in institutionalizing evaluation.

The panel takes up the positions expressed in the keynote and keynote panel. It begins with a short input from each of the selected book authors about the role of the parliamentarians, the ministries and governmental institutions in regard to their function in the development of institutional evaluation structures and their use. These inputs will provide regionally grounded insights and reflect the situation in different continents, offering a basis for comparative discussion on the roles, responsibilities, and influence of political and administrative actors in shaping evaluation systems.

The panel will also reflect on differences across countries and regions, and explore what parliaments and governments can do to push ahead with the institutionalization and use of evaluation.

The session is aimed at policymakers, public sector professionals, evaluation practitioners, and researchers interested in the political and institutional dimensions of evaluation. It offers a space for international exchange and reflection on how evaluation can be more effectively embedded in governance systems around the world and on the role of parliaments, governments and administration in doing so.