IDEAS International Development Evaluation Association

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATING CLIMATE
CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENTMay 10-13, 2008,
Alexandria, Egypt

• Networking Sessions
• IDEAS Structure and Networking Experiences
• Doha Abdelhamid,
• IDEAS Board Member
• Conference Steering Committee Member
• Presented at the Pre-inaugurating Session
• Bibliotecha Alexandrina, May 10, 2008

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This presentation is about

• What is the architecture of the development
  evaluation community?
• What is IDEAS?
• How far has it achieved on networking?
• Inquiry for networking evaluating climate change
  and development

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Current DE Architecture
Quesnel, 2006.
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Why IDEAS?

• Rise of sustainable development agenda MDGs,
  PRSPs, HDRs, etc.
• Accountability, transparency development
  effectiveness
• Are we on track? What tools instruments?
• S?D

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IDEAS Emergence

• 8 May 2001 London Declaration
• 8 September 2002 Constituent Assembly in Beijing
• February 2003 IDEAS as UK Charity with global
  constituency
• July 2003 IDEAS website in operation and
  members-relations administrator appointed

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IDEAS Objectives/Aims

• Global
• Voluntary
• Inclusive
• Democratic
• Educational
• Pluralistic
• Responsive
• Participatory

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IDEAS Mission

• Practicemethodscapacityownership
• Educationtheoriesstandards
• Focus on
• developing and transition economies

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Core Mandate

• Knowledge
• ECD
• Networking

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Governance Structure

• Board of directors/Executive Committee
• Number
• Distribution/Gender
• Communication
• Activities decision-making

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Funding

• Membership fees
• Donations
• Development partners

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Membership Type

• Entity Individual vs.Institutional
• Duration Single vs. Multiple
• Development stage Developed vs. Developing and
  transition
• Affiliation CorporatePublicNGO

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Membership Distribution

• No. of countries represented?
• No. of members?
• Continental distribution?
• Institutional membership?

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Strategic Work Programs

• Rethinking development evaluation
• Governance accountability for development
• The Poverty-Environment Nexus
• International conferences
• National and regional clubs

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Some Landmark Achievements

• March 2003 DAC-OECD conference on Partnership
  in Development EvaluationLearning and
  Accountability, Paris
• July 2003 WB-OED conference Utilization of
  Evaluation, Washington DC
• December 2003 IDEAS workshop on Evaluating
  MDGs along the UKES conference in Cardiff

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Some Landmark Achievements

• September 2004 IDEAS special session in the EES
  conference in Berlin
• October 2004 IDEAS co-hosted symposium of
  Parliamentary Oversight for Poverty Reduction,
  Cambodia
• October 2003 IDEAS sub-regional workshop on
  Evaluation of Public-Private Partnerships
  (PPPs) in South Africa

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Some Landmark Achievements

• November 2004 Regional seminar on the
  Evaluation of Social Programs, South Africa
• December 2004 Special session on Development
  Evaluation Implications for Africa, in AFREAs
  conference in Cape town
• April 2005 International conference on
  Evaluation Development Beyond Aid, Delhi
• October 2005 Networking reception at CES/AES
  conference

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Some Landmark Achievements

• November 2005 IDEAS in Action workshop, Cairo
• 2006 Bursaries to UKES/EES joint conference
• May 2006 Eastern European workshop on CLES,
  Prague
• July 2006 Networking reception at IPDET, Ottawa
• September 2006 Discussion group

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Some Landmark Achievements

• January 2007 IDEAS/CIDA regional workshop on
  CLE Practical Experiences from the Africa
  Region, on AFREAs fourth conference, Niamey
• 2006 WB/IEG workshop on Development Evaluation
  Standards, Paris
• January 2007 IPDET endorsement
• February 2007 WB Roundtable on Development
  Effectiveness, by OECD-DAC, Hanoi

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Some Landmark Achievements

• 2007 IDEAS in IPEN conference in Georgia
• July 2007 IDEAS hosts networking reception at
  IPDET, Ottawa
• September 2007 IDEAS/CzechES/EU offer
  Development Evaluation Training, Prague
• 2007 IDEAS/UNICEF thematic discussion on CLE
• September 2007 UNICEF book contribution on CLE
  Lessons from Regional Experiences

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Some Landmark Achievements

• September 2007 IDEAS in IPEN conference on
  Reforms and Evaluation of Programs and
  Policies, Moscow
• 2006-08 IDEAS partners with GEF, BA, GOE,
  WB/IEG, IDRC, IUCN, NORAD, BMZ/GTZ, DFID, USAID,
  AU, FFEM, IOD, NE etc. on international
  conference on Evaluating Climate Change and
  Development, Alexandria

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Road Ahead on Networking Evaluating Climate
Change and Development

• Enabling mandate
• Strategic orientation
• Discussion group
• Advocacy building
• Partnership in design and implementation
• Develop ME methodology
• Disseminate results

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Some Pertinent Questions

• Scoping? Outcomes?
• Modality? Life expectancy?
• Timing? Sourcing?
• Division of Labor? Exit Sustain?
• Hosting?
• Care-taking?
• Outputs?

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IDEAS Structure Networking Experiences

• Thank You
• 
  Doha
  Abdelhamid
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  abdelhamiddoha_at_yahoo.com