The founding of Community of Evaluators – Nepal (CoE-Nepal), was inspired by the feedbacks received during the symposium on “The Status of Evaluation in Nepal”, held on 11th August 2010 in Kathmandu and International Evaluation Conclave in New Delhi on October 2010. CoE-Nepal is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan organization. The team comprises a pool of evaluators, development practitioners, and academicians with national and international work experience of over a decade.
Vision: Effective development policy, program and partnership.
Mission: Establish a culture of evaluation at national and international level through development and dissemination of knowledge in evaluation, capacity building of evaluation stakeholders, and promotion of evaluation theory and practice.
Goal: Advance the theory, practice and use of evaluation in development processes.
Objectives:
1. To develop and disseminate knowledge products on evaluation,
2. To enhance capacity of development actors on quality evaluation,
3. To strengthen the dialogue mechanism for promoting the use of evaluation.
Thematic Areas:
1. Knowledge development
1.1 Situation analysis of evaluation practices and uses in Nepal,
1.2 Review and synthesis of new knowledge, innovation and trends in evaluation criteria, research methodology, and evaluability assessment,
1.3 Meta evaluations,
1.4 Innovative and emerging evaluation research such as appreciative inquiry, contribution analysis, socio-economic impact,
1.5 Studies on the use of evaluation by stakeholders,
1.6 Studies on the new dimensions in evaluation of specific programmes such as climate change, disaster risk management, security system reforms, peace and development; etc.,
1.7 Occasional papers on evaluation practices.
2 Capacity Building
2.1 Basic and advance training on evaluation theory, tools and techniques,
2.2 Seminar/workshop/conference/conclave on evaluation theory, practices, model, methods and emerging approaches,
2.3 Professional development trainings of evaluators on evaluation standards, ethics, norms and code of conduct.
3 Promotion of evaluation theory and practices
3.1 Networking with organizations working on the promotion of evaluation,
3.2 Advocacy for mainstreaming evaluation in the development cycle,
3.3 Policy dialogue for the effective use of evaluation,
3.4 Establishment of ethics, standards, norms and code of conducts in evaluation,
3.5 Collaborative research and outreach national and with international evaluation organization,
3.6 Profiling of evaluators.
