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2015 is the International Year of Evaluation. UNEG and its members, together with partners, organized a series of evaluation events to celebrate the International Year of Evaluation and to advocate and promote evaluation and evidence-based policy making at international, regional, national and local levels.

Here is a list of events organized by UNEG Members Featuring the “Evaluation Torch”:

1. Celebration of Official Adoption of the UN Resolution on Evaluation
Date: 17 December 2014, Location: New York, USA
Organizer: UNEG and Permanent Mission of Fiji

2. UNEG Evaluation Week
Date: 9-13 March 2015, Location: New York, USA
Organizer: UNEG

3. Future opportunities and challenges for evaluation at UNDP
Date: 1 April 2015, Location: Virtual
Organizers: Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP and the Fletcher School, Tufts University

4. Emerging challenges for equity focused and gender responsive evaluation
Date: 8 April 2015, Location: Virtual
Organizers: Independent Evaluation Office of UN Women and the Fletcher School, Tufts University

5. High-level Panel Discussion and Reception to Promote EvalYear 2015
Date: 21 April 2015, Location: Vienna, Austria
Organizers: Vienna based UN agencies together with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

6. Consultation with East Asian Parliamentarians in Strengthening Evaluation Function in National Development Agenda
Date: 10-11 August 2015, Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Organizers: PFDE, UNICEF, UN Women, EvalPartners

7. Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) Annual Conference 2015 and the Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN) Pre-Conference for the International Year of Evaluation 2015
Date: 3-4 September 2015, Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Organizers: Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) and Geneva Evaluation Network (GEN)

8. Consultation with Latin American Parliamentarians in Strengthening Evaluation Function in Post Development Agenda
Date: 17-18 September 2015, Location: Panama City, Panama
Organizers: PFDE, UNICEF, UN Women, CLEAR, EvalPartners

9. Making Effective Use of Evaluations in an Increasingly Complex World
Date: 30 September 2015, Location: Paris, France
Organizers: UNESCO, OECD, French Evaluation Society, European Evaluation Society

10. National Evaluation Capacities (NEC) Conference
Date: 26-30 October 2015, Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Organizers: UNDP in partnership with the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), with strong presence from UNEG, ECG and OECD/DAC

11. To achieve the sustainable development goals, evaluation needs to become an agent of change: Technical Seminar organized by four Rome-based agencies on Enhancing the evaluability of SDG2
Date: 17-18 November 2015, Location: Rome, Italy
Organizers: Evaluation Offices of FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR

12. Global Evaluation Week
Date: 23-27 November 2015, Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Organizers: EvalPartners, IOCE, UN Women, CoE-SA, PFDE, CoE Nepal, Parliament of Nepal, National Planning Commission of Nepal, UNEG

Source: EvalPartners, http://mymande.org/evalyear/evaluationtorch2015