Bridging the Gap: The Role of Monitoring and Evaluation in Evidence-based Policy Making

Part 1: Evidence-based policy making

• Evidence-based policy making and the role of monitoring and evaluation within the new aid environment, by Marco Segone, Senior Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, UNICEF CEE/CIS and past Vice President, IOCE.
• The relationship between evaluation and politics, by Ove Karlsson Vestman, Director, Mälardalen Evaluation Academy, and Vice President of the Swedish Evaluation Society; and Ross F. Conner, University of California, President of IOCE
• Monitoring and evaluation, and the knowledge function, by David Parker, Deputy Director, UNICEF Innocenti Research Center
• Helping countries build government monitoring and evaluation systems. World Bank contribution to evidence-based policy making, by Keith Mackay, Coordinator, Evaluation Capacity Development, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
• Ten step to a results based monitoring and evaluation systems, by Jody Zall Kusek, Chief, Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Group, World Bank, and Ray Rist, Advisor, Public sector management

Part 2: The strategic intent of evaluations, studies and research

• Enhancing the utilization of evaluations for evidence-based policy making, by Michael Bamberger, former Senior Evaluator, World Bank
• Country-Led Evaluation, by Marie-Helene Adrien, President, IDEAS and Dennis Jobin, Vice President, IDEAS
• Joint Country-Led Evaluation of the policies related to child well-being within the social protection sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Azzedina Vukovic, Directorate for Economic Planning, Council of Ministers of Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Debora McWhinney, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Bosnia & Herzegovina

Part 3: The strategic intent of data collection and dissemination

• The strategic intent of data collection and analysis. The case of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), by Daniel Vadnais and Attila Hancioglu
• The strategic intent of data dissemination. The case of DevInfo, by Nicolas Pron, DevInfo Global Administrator, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF Headquarters
• Using DevInfo as a strategic tool for decision making.
• Achievements and lessons learned in Moldova, by Mohamed Azzedine Salah, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Moldova
• Using DevInfo to support Governments in monitoring National Development Strategies. The case of the Republic of Serbia, by Dragana Djokovic-Papic, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, and Oliver Petrovic and Vladica Jankovic, UNICEF Serbia
• Using DevInfo as a strategic tool to facilitate local communities’ empowerment. The case of Serbia, by Vladan Vasic, Mayor of Pirot, and Oliver Petrovic and Vladica Jankovic, UNICEF Serbia