Invitation for 4th Regional Conference of Evaluators in the Balkans region
“Reflecting the practice of evaluation”
Brief Description
The 4th Regional Conference is organized by WBEN – Western Balkans Evaluation Network as a regional network that makes efforts to promote evaluation concept and raise evaluation culture in the Balkans region. Conferences are organized bi-annually since 2015. The history of the conference started in Sarajevo 2015, followed in Zagreb 2017 and the last one in Belgrade 2019. It is usually taking place in October or November.
This year it will be taking place on Wednesday, 24th of November 2021, in Skopje, North Macedonia. Due to Covid-19 situation and the uncertainties to travel, the conference will be organized online, using ZOOM Platform.
The Macedonian Evaluation Network (MEN), Management Consulting Association (MCA 2000) and University of Tourism and Management Skopje – Institute of Business and Management (UTMS/IBM) are this year the hosts of the conference in close collaboration with all the members of WBEN. The conference will be a one-day event, bringing together professionals in evaluation, relevant government officials, international organizations, academics, civil society representatives and other stakeholders from across Balkans, Europe and beyond that strive to enhance and promote the use of evaluation and its development as a discipline and a profession. The programme of the conference will comprise plenary, panel and group discussions on a range of priority issues, with the aim of achieving consensus around important topics.
Hosted by: MEN; MCA 2000 & UTMS (IBM)
When: 24 November 2021
Where: Skopje, North Macedonia (ZOOM PLATFORM)
For whom (target): The event will bring together key actors from across Balkans, EU and beyond, responsible for monitoring and evaluation and those interested to learn about M&E.
Goal of the conference: Is to enhance and strengthen the existing institutional network of evaluators in the region and beyond and to develop common principles and a regional agenda for identifying priorities, addressing challenges and taking action in regards to evaluation as a discipline and profession.
https://men.mk/4th-regional-conference/
Programme title
Strengthening civic engagement in local communities towards positive peace in BiH
Introduction
Porticus is an international organisation that manages and develops the philanthropic programs of charitable entities established by Brenninkmeijer family entrepreneurs. We collaborate with partners around the globe to foster human dignity, social justice and sustainability. We aim to contribute to systemic social change by combining our expertise with our grassroots networks all over the world into multi-annual programs. The Porticus Vienna Office operates in CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) and the MENAT region (Middle East, North Africa, Turkey). In coordination with the Community Arts Lab, another Porticus unit based in Vienna, the Porticus CEE team has recently developed a programme which aims to contribute towards strengthening civil society and to achieving a positive, rather than negative, peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
Podgorica, 11 March 2016
In addition to representatives of the Montenegrin Evaluation Network, the Regional Meeting of the Western Balkan Evaluators was also attended by Bojan Radej, Master of Economics, evaluator and evaluation theorist from Ljubljana, founder and coordinator of the Slovenian evaluation society and initiator for establishing the Western Balkan Evaluation Network, dr.sc. Marijana Sumpor and dr.sc. Nenad Starc, RistoIvanov, representatives of the Croatian Evaluation Society who had presentation on the subject titled “WBEN PES - professional evaluator standards”, Vlatko Danilov, Chairman of the MCA 2000 / MEN with his presentation on “New Global Trends in the evaluation and mapping the needs for monitoring and evaluation of public policies”, and Beti Delovska, the member of the Macedonian Evaluation Network, with her presentation on the subject titled “Tools for dissemination and exchange of experiences between VOPEs and WBEN”.
