Seven years of IPDET – A successful partnership comes to an end
After seven successful years, CEval’s collaboration with the University of Bern and the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank on the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) has come to an end. CEval is proud to have played a pivotal role in further shaping and delivering IPDET, which has made significant strides […]
Islamic Development Bank continues to strengthen decision-making through evaluation
Following last year’s success, the Islamic Development Bank, IsDB, once again partnered with the International Program for Development Evaluation Training, IPDET, in 2024 to offer another round of impactful training on the Fundamentals of Evaluation, conducted by the IPDET Head of the program, Dr Stefanie Krapp and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Stockmann from the Center for Evaluation, […]
CEval Hosts Meta-Evaluation Training with Australian Evaluation Society
On September 24, 2024, CEval had the pleasure of conducting an engaging online seminar for the Australian Evaluation Society (AES). Led by Dr. Stefan Silvestrini, CEO of CEval GmbH, the session introduced participants to the fundamentals of meta-evaluations. With around 30 AES members in attendance, the event was a great opportunity to explore how evaluations […]
IPDET On-Site 2024 Opening Speech by Prof. Reinhard Stockmann: The Contribution of Evaluation to Create a Better World
From July 15-26, 2024, the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) held its highly anticipated on-site event at the University of Bern, Switzerland. This year marks the 24th anniversary of IPDET and the fifth IPDET On-Site program held in Bern, welcoming 166 participants from 71 countries. Since 2018, IPDET has been a collaborative effort […]
#gLOCAL2024 Moving the Needle: Regional Perspectives on Evaluation Capacity Development
The Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is hosting the webinar “Moving the Needle: Regional Perspectives on Evaluation Capacity Development” for #gLOCAL Evaluation Week 2024. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Stockmann, founder and director of the Center for Evaluation (CEval), is invited to join the OVE panel with other renowned experts: Futhi […]
Islamic Development Bank strengthens decision-making through Evaluation
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is using evaluation to make its decision-making processes at both the programmatic and strategic levels even more evidence-based. The aim is to strengthen the operational departments’ understanding of the importance of evaluation in the program cycle. The requirements for high-quality evaluations are to be created as early as the program […]
Consortium of Institutions on M&E education in Asia Pacific
Launch supported by CEval/IPDET. The results of our CEval research project “Evaluation Globe” as well as a specially conducted study program mapping show that the Asia-Pacific region has insufficient regular academic programs in evaluation, both, on postgraduate and undergraduate level. Evaluation knowledge is mainly based on learning on the job and/or through irregular and extremely […]
Invited to the Parliament of Sri Lanka
As part of a workshop in Colombo/Sri Lanka on “Better Policy through Evaluation”, organized by IPDET on behalf of the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), a debate was held in Parliament. The aim of the event was to convince parliamentarians of the value of evaluation for policy decisions. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Stockmann (Director of the Center […]
Parliamentarians delighted by evaluation
CEval convinces parliamentarians of the benefits of evaluation In many countries, the decisions of parliamentarians are not based on facts. Instead, convictions, subjective views or information from less reliable sources often dominate. In order to breathe life into the buzzword ‘evidence-based policy‘, the International Program for Development Evaluation (IPDET) conducted a workshop on behalf of […]
Final conference of the university cooperation between PUCE, UCR and UdS
Strengthening evidence-based policy through University Cooperation: At the end of their university cooperation, funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE), the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and the Center for Evaluation (CEval) of Saarland University (UdS) held a conference on November 23 & 24, 2022 in San José/Costa […]
