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.
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Session Overview |
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Keynote: The Institutionalization of Evaluation in a Global Perspective
Keynote by Reinhard Stockmann | ||
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Keynote: The Institutionalization of Evaluation in a Global Perspective The use of evaluation is increasing in a global scale. More and more countries are using evaluation as a tool for producing reliable and trustworthy data to inform evidence-based decisions for program management, impact assessment and policy making. To this end, the institutionalization and professionalization of evaluation has been pushed forward on a massive level in many countries. However, until now there has been a lack of a global overview of these developments as well as of the factors driving and hindering them. For this reason, the CEval Evaluation GLOBE Project was launched in 2016 to analyze as many countries as possible on all continents in order to close this research gap. To date, 50 country case studies and 11 reports from transnational organizations have been published in four volumes (Europe 2020; Americas 2022; Asia-Pacific 2023 and Africa 2025), in which 137 authors have contributed. This has resulted in a globally unique database that serves as the empirical basis for the international stream of this year's DeGEval annual conference. In the keynote speech, the complete results of the CEval Evaluation GLOBE Project will be presented for the first time. During the following sessions, the findings will be taken up, successively expanded and discussed under various aspects by the authors of the country case studies from a continental perspective. The keynote speech will begin with the research objectives and the theoretical and methodological approach underlying the project presented. This is followed by a presentation of the findings on the institutionalization and use of evaluation in the political and social system and the degree of professionalization of evaluation in the countries studied. A double comparative analysis perspective is applied for this purpose. Firstly, the results of these three different systems that are presented are compared by country, followed by an intercontinental comparison. Finally, the promoting and hindering factors for the institutionalization and use of evaluation as well as the challenges for the future of evaluation will be identified. | ||