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mission

The mission of the Georgian Evaluation Association is to form a field of evaluation that will meet international standards, to provide new opportunities for professional self-realization, to close in independent social and economic fields, to maintain the integration of independent branches and contribute to the establishment of an inter-disciplinary branch of evaluation, to support the establishment of systems for democratic governance that will promote the development of the country and which will be fully in accordance with national priorities and interests.

goals

  • To establish and develop an evaluation branch – as the vital field for democratic development of the country
  • To maintain the growth of qualified evaluator cadres and further their professional development
  • To establish evaluation standards in Georgia
  • To develop and institute an Evaluator’s Code of Ethics
  • To enhance public awareness of monitoring and evaluation

values

  • To establish and develop an evaluation branch – as the vital field for democratic development of the country
  • To maintain the growth of qualified evaluator cadres and further their professional development
  • To establish evaluation standards in Georgia
  • To develop and institute an Evaluator’s Code of Ethics
  • To enhance public awareness of monitoring and evaluation
  • To develop and institute an Evaluator’s Code of Ethics
  • To enhance public awareness of monitoring and evaluation
  • To develop and institute an Evaluator’s Code of Ethics
  • To enhance public awareness of monitoring and evaluation

history

The Georgian Evaluation Association was founded in early 2008. The Association brings together people who are concerned with democratic development of the country. These individuals care about quality monitoring and evaluation of the ongoing political, economic and social processes and reforms, programs and projects. They strive for the development of evaluation criteria and mechanisms or indicators that will enable us to measure the impact of completed works and consequently plan success-oriented projects for the future.

The Association is vitally interested in establishing an institutional system of evaluation, promoting the growth of professional cadres, developing and instituting evaluation standards, establishing an Evaluators Code of Ethics, enhancing public awareness in regard to the process of evaluation, and, increasing public support for this evaluation process.
At the end of 2007 and in the beginning of 2008 an initiative group developing the idea of establishing the Georgian Evaluation Association was created in the Horizonti Foundation. The group elaborated by-law a 5 year strategic plan and 1 year working plan of the association.

Therefore, the Horizonti Foundation is an author of the idea and founder of a new Georgian non-governmental organization called the Georgian Evaluation Association. The Horizonti Foundation will provide the newly established association with active assistance, and support its further institutional development and financial strengthening in the next two to three years.

The Georgian Evaluation Association brings together people who aim to support qualified monitoring and evaluation of the ongoing political, economic and social processes and reforms, programs and projects; to create evaluation criteria and mechanisms or criteria that will enable us to measure the results and impact of completed works and therefore plan success-oriented projects for the future.

Members of the Association consider evaluation a crucial strategic tool for acquiring knowledge and experience, simplifying decision making and for good organizational management and control.

president's introduction

With this letter I would like to tell you about the purpose for setting up this internet site, as well as about the goals for founding the Georgia Evaluation Association (GEA) several years ago and about the cause to the realization of which we work relentlessly.

It was the idea of the Horizonti Foundation to establish and this organization laid foundation to the creation of the Georgian Evaluation Association. You will probably ask, so what, plenty of associations and unions have been established and disappeared without us ever knowing they even existed. A crucial issue is the goal of an organization and the benefits it can bring to a country. The work performed by GEA in Georgia is absolutely novel, so novel that there are still very few adherents, not only in Georgia, but throughout the post-Soviet area. While the developed world’s government or civil organizations cannot function without having the evaluation component in place. In Western states and the developed Eastern democracies this component became a central one in the process of development of a country. The importance and necessity of evaluation is not argued, this is seen as a regular activity.

The development of evaluation, as of an independent field started in the West after the World War II, this was when the international organizations – the UN, the World Bank, etc. set the objective to determine the impact of performed activities and achieved results. Evaluation activity evolved gradually. And starting from the 1920’s the development of a new methodology of evaluation theory and practice was commenced.

International, as well as local non-governmental organizations (NGO) played a crucial role in the development of program evaluation. Horizonti Foundation, an organization of the third sector, was at the forefront of the efforts to introduce evaluation activity; this foundation was managing the projects and grant programs funded by foreign donor organizations in Georgia. It was this very foundation that started to introduce monitoring and evaluation tools in own activities and to bring in and engage foreign experts of the field in program evaluation.

Regrettably, the wider public is not aware of either the essence or the importance of comprehensive evaluation of activities; moreover, people do not have exhaustive information about its benefits. It should be mentioned, though, that a number of scientists and practitioners in Georgia are taking measures to address this gap. Further, considering that Georgians are fast to acquire innovations, we believe that the time to widely introduce program evaluation is near and it would be desirable to be ready for necessary processes.

Why is the evaluation of program, organizational, strategies, policies needed and why do we advocate for its significance so ardently? Maybe because this is almost the only effective tool for proper, democratic development of any country and, unfortunately, in Georgia no one has ever held this tool. Or maybe because we want to show to the citizens how this tool works, what it regulates, what prospects it holds and what timeframe these cover. Let us start with the first one: evaluation enables us to ascertain whether the result of a planned activity will be efficient and desired. In other words, this means that without an evaluation system in place we will be unable to measure impact. This, in turn, means that every organization should introduce an internal system of monitoring and evaluation, it should have in place result-oriented strategic plans with indicators, simply put – "we should bring a thermometer to home and take temperature."

It works similarly in the case of democratic governance. By introducing evaluation methodologies and tools we will measure the effectiveness of performed activities at governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as business companies, media institutions or academic circles. In other words, evaluation is a successful management tool, without which it is impossible to measure success.

Significant changes are performed at present. Changes are always related to the development of a new thinking. In this case this is about new approaches to management and the introduction of new tools – replacement of the existing plans (mostly strategic plans) with result-oriented strategic plans and the result-oriented management systems. Currently such a system does not exist in Georgia, with the exception of a limited number of “experiments” that GEA implemented at some public and private organizations and where result-oriented management, monitoring and evaluation systems are being introduced.

The most important task at present is to establish evaluation as a sector in Georgia!

To achieve this, we need a cadre of professionals. To train professionals we should introduce the teaching of evaluation at the university level. You will probably ask: “who will teach?”, in response I will refer back again and say that at the end of the 90’s Horizonti Foundation was one of the first NGO’s to start spreading the idea of program evaluation, provision of trainings and seminars to local and foreign organizations on the topic of evaluation. As a result, firstly, civil sector players became aware of the evaluation theory, and secondly, the NGO’s accumulated the experience of monitoring and evaluation of own activities.

Although, this is still not sufficient for university programs but it is absolutely sufficient for us to move ahead, talk to foreign friends in this field and set up university programs in evaluation, in order to train evaluators in Georgia jointly with and with the assistance of foreign colleagues. It is one of the principal directions of GEA to establish and tighten contacts among evaluators, share existing experience and support their professional growth.

For the implementation of evaluation it is necessary to have a necessary legislative base, raise public awareness about the importance of evaluation, and introduce evaluation standards. It is highly important to develop the culture of evaluation in Georgia and any organization that has this quality finds it very easy to see every way and path towards success.

Nino Saakashvili
President

partners

  • IOCE - International Organizations for Cooperation in Evaluation
  • IPEN - International Program Evaluation Network

donors

  • IFES - International Foundation for Electoral Systems
  • PH International
  • NED - National Endowment for Democracy
  • USAID - United States Agency for International Development
  • Chemonics
  • MSI - Management Systems International
  • Swiss Embassy
  • AED
  • DFID - Department for International Development
  • GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
  • OSGF - Open Society Foundations
  • UNICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
  • UN Women
  • Horizonti Foundation
  • Eurasia Partnership Foundation
  • WB - World Bank
  • UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • IMF - International Monetary Fund
  • BP

governing board

  • Nino Saakashvili – Founding President of EMC -Evaluation and Management Consulting "LTD"
  • Devi Khechinashvili – Partnership for Social Initiatives (PSI)
  • Tamar Lebanidze – Constanta

topical interests groups

Economics

Chair - Kakha Nadiradze. Dr. of Agricultural Science. Tel: +995 551 13 94 79 | Email: nadiradzekakha@gmail.com

Co-Chair - Keti Meladze. Georgian Association of Guides (SAGA). Tel: +995 599 51 68 42 | Email: ketymeladze@gmail.com

Energy and Environment

Chair - Vakhtang Zarqua. Energy Efficiency Fund. Tel: + 995 599 48 48 62 | Email: eef.georgia@gmail.com

Education and Science

Chair - Lela Abdushelishvili. Caucasus University. Tel: + 995 599 55 31 41 | Email: lelaabdushelishvili@hotmail.com

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professional

development

university programs

Institution

Location

American University

Washington, DC, USA

Boston College

Boston, MA, USA

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT, USA

California State University, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Catholic University of America

Washington DC, USA

Claremont Graduate University

Claremont, CA, USA

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Fielding Graduate University

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL, USA

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA, USA

Humboldt State University

Arcata, CA, USA

Kent State University

Kent, OH, USA

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI, USA

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ, USA

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA, USA

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY, USA

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, TN, USA

The George Washington University

Washington, DC, USA

Tufts University

Medford, MA, USA

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, USA

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA, USA

University of Cape Town

Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

University of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

University of Denver

Denver, CO, USA

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY, USA

University of Maryland

College Park, MD, USA

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Baltimore, MD, USA

University of Massachusetts Boston

Boston, MA, USA

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN, USA

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC, USA

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

University of South Florida

Tampa, FL, USA

The University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN, USA

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX, USA

our

activities

current activities

implemented activities

1. "Empowering Marginalized and Ethnic Minority Citizens for Participation in Local Government Decision Making and Monitoring Activities"

GEA conducted series of trainings on citizen activation, transparency, accountability, advocacy and government monitoring between the election period time issues to the local citizens, CSOs, media and government representatives in all target regions. The aim of these trainings was to rise capacity of ethnical minorities and local citizens in order to became more active and to be involved in decision making process. Three trainings were conducted in all four target towns and attended by more then 200 citizens.

"This Web site is made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the sole responsibility of Georgian Evaluation Association and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USAID or the United States Government".

2. "Empowering Marginalized and Ethnic Minority Citizens for Participation in Local Government Decision Making and Monitoring Activities"

GEA conducted qualitative research to learn the opinion of marginalized communities about citizenship and their needs to get involved in the local decision-making process. The research showed the level of civil engagement of the population of 4 towns: Bolnisi, Gardabani, Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki, ways of citizens’ involvement in governmental activities, and the main problems in communication of citizens with local governments. The research was conducted in Gardabani, Bolnisi, Akhalkalaki and Akhaltsikhe and covered 400 respondents including citizens, local governments’ and NGO representatives.

"This Web site is made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the sole responsibility of Georgian Evaluation Association and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USAID or the United States Government".

3. With support from USAID/Chemonics, in the summer of 2013, American expert Ms. Elissa Meyers was invited to revise the organization’s membership strategy. Chemonics consultant - Ms. Elissa Meyers organized a series of meetings with leaders of Georgian organizations and consulting companies encouraging them to become members of GEA based on the common interest of GEA’s work. As a result of those meetings, the number of GEA member organizations increased. Since September 2013 these organizations and individuals have been actively involved in various activities of GEA, including participation in thematic working group meetings.

4. "Building Political Party Election Program Civic Monitoring System in Georgia"

During September 2012 – September 2013, GEA successfully implemented the project "Building Political Party Election Program Civic Monitoring System in Georgia" which was funded by National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The implementation of the project included collecting and systematizing all existing political party pre-election programs, platforms or promises of all major political parties participating in the election. Georgian Evaluation Association developed a database of these programs, platforms, and promises. GEA also analyzed the contents, quality and implementation plan of these programs and monitored the execution of Georgia Dream’s (the election winner) party program.

5. "Improve Public Access to and Engagement in Local Government Activities through Enhancing the Transparency and Accountability of Local Government Processes"

From June 2012 to July 2013, GEA implemented USAID/MSI/G3 funded project "Improve Public Access to and Engagement in Local Government Activities through Enhancing the Transparency and Accountability of Local Government Processes" for citizen engagement and participation in civil monitoring processes in the cities of Gori, Poti and Marneuli. As part of that project GEA helped local municipalities establish citizen advisory councils and develop results-oriented strategic plans and action plans.

6. Mid-term evaluation of Applied Civic Education and Teacher Training Program (ACETT) program

During March – May, 2012 Georgian Evaluation Association conducted mid-term evaluation of Applied Civic Education and Teacher Training Program (ACETT) program implemented by PH International with the financial support of the United States agency for International Development (USAID). Evaluation included both qualitative and quantitative surveys. The goal of the program is to improve the quality and scope of school-based civic education as a means to positively influence the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of youth as active participants in Georgia’s democratic society.

7. Evaluation of Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED)

In November-December, 2011 GEA conducted evaluation of Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED) Project implemented in Gori/Shida Kartli. The main objective of evaluation was to assess the effectiveness of undertaken activities and the impact funded by GIZ and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the company COPA.

8. International conference "Result-Based Management and Evaluation"

GEA organized the 11th annual IPEN conference "Result-Based Management and Evaluation" in partnership with UN Women and IPEN on September 27-30, 2011 in Batumi, Georgia. The conference brought together evaluation practitioners, researchers, as well as representatives of the public, non-governmental, private sectors and media from Georgia, other countries of former Soviet Union, Europe, US and other parts of the world. The conference included many topical issues that include result-based strategy, program or project evaluation; international aid result evaluation; institutionalization of M&E systems or schemes in various sectors; public program evaluation; performance audit vs. evaluation; quality management; evaluation of political processes, building evaluation capacities, evaluation and government transparency and accountability; evaluation practice experienced by new European Member States; media about evaluation, etc.

9. Evaluation Standards and Code of Ethics

Since 2011, a group of individuals from GEA and others from outside the organization have been involved in development of National Evaluation Standards and Code of Ethics for evaluators. With intensive participation of the evaluators and members of the association, Evaluation Standards and Code of Ethics were created.

10. Development of the Gori Community Reading Center for Children and Youth

From February to April, 2010 GEA had implemented the UNICEF–Georgia financed project "Development of the Gori Community Reading Center for Children and Youth" first phase. The program officially started in February 2010 and lasted until November 2010. The project intended to enhance institutional and organizational capacities of the Center.

11. Development of Models for establishing Monitoring and Evaluation Institutional Systems

During 2010, with funding from OSGF and in cooperation with Governenment of Adjara, GEA intensively worked on development of Models for establishing Monitoring and Evaluation Institutional Systems for the Government of Adjara. During that project, GEA worked closely with Mr. Varshalomidze, the Head of Adjara Government, with all 4 existing ministries in Adjara, and the Tourism department of Adjara. The model for the M&E system institutionalization was presented to Mr. Varshalomidze for his revision, consideration and approval.

12. Development of Strategic Plan

During 2008 – 2009,with the support of USAID/PAR program, GEA implemented projects that provided technical support to Georgian Government public institutions, namely, the development of three year (2009-2011) strategic plans, one-year (2009) action plans and Performance Measurement Plans for: 1) Ministry of Justice of Georgia (MOJ), 2) Ministry of Finance and Economy of Adjara (MoFEA), 3) Ministry of Agriculture of Adjara (MoA), 4) Civil Registry Agency of Georgia (CRA), and 5) Ministry of Healthcare and Social Welfare of Adjara.GEA also trained the staff of these government institutions on monitoring and evaluation methods, instruments, indicators and tools.

13. Consultancy and Training Assistance

As part of USAID/PAR projects implemented during 2008 – 2009, GEA worked and provided direct consultancy and training assistance to the ministries of Justice, Civil Registry of Georgia, MoA, MoFEA, MoHSA in the areas of strategic plan development, Action Plan Development, Performance Measurement Plan Development, Monitoring and Evaluation issues, and indicator development.

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membership

gea membership policy

The Georgian Evaluation Association (GEA) brings together individuals and legal entities, who are interested in the field of evaluation. GEA pays attention to introducing its activities to the wider public and recruiting new members of the association, as well as widening the area of its activities and strengthening its capacity.
The formation of the evaluation field and its improvement are very complex and labor-intensive processes. In order to achieve the declared purposes of the association, it is necessary to attract people and institutions interested in the field of evaluation and to recruit new members and involve them in the activities of the association.
The Georgian Evaluation Association has developed membership policies that regulate the relationship between the association and its members. The membership policies include: membership procedures, rights of members, members responsibilities and obligations towards the association, the role of members in the furtherance of expanding of the organization, opportunities for professional growth, etc.

Actions That Are Undertaken by the Association for Recruitment of New Members

To support the recruitment of new members of the association, the following actions are undertaken:

  • Organizing individual invitations;
  • Publishing advertisements in the media;
  • Organizing meetings of a general character;
  • Distributing leaflets and brochures in public gathering places (such as supermarkets, libraries, educational-research institutions);
  • Developing special advertising video clips;
  • Holding public lectures;
  • Putting advertisements on various types of vehicles.

Member of the Georgian Evaluation Association May Become

Any interested person or legal entity sharing the statutory objectives of the Georgian Evaluation Association is eligible for membership. Potential members are not required to have experience in the field of evaluation.
Legal and Private entities of public law, among them: local and international non-governmental organizations, entrepreneurs, registered political parties and movements, professional and art unions, universities and other education and research institutions may become corporate members of the association.

Membership Recruitment Procedures

A person seeking membership should complete the application form and submit it to the executive board of the association. The board will consider the application within one week and arrange an interview with the applicant. After the interview, the board will decide whether to admit the applicant to the association.

The Actuality and Benefit of Association Membership

One of the major goals of the association is the professional growth and development of its members in the field of evaluation, encouraging closer contact between its members and the creation of a friendly environment for their further mutual cooperation.
The association enables its members to strengthen their capacity in the field of evaluation, to improve their qualifications and professional authority and to create their business reputation and image.
Members are provided with opportunities to participate in master classes organized by the association given by internationally recognized experts.
Membership provides an opportunity for people working in the field of evaluation, both inside and outside the country, to have closer contact and share information and experiences with each other.
Information about members is posted on the association’s web page; however the association does not accept any responsibility for the accuracy of this information.
Members are provided with the association’s quarterly bulletin and annual magazine free of charge.
Members are provided with printed and electronic publications on the issues of evaluation. Members articles are published in the printed and electronic publications of the association.
Members will receive a discount on the annual international conference fee and on seminars of professional growth held by the association.

The Rights of Members

Members have the right:

  • To participate on an equal basis at general meetings held by the association;
  • To elect the executive board of the association and to be elected on it;
  • To participate in the development of strategic action plans and other important decisions concerning the association;
  • To participate in programs, projects and initiatives implemented by the association according to their qualifications and capacity;
  • To receive full information about the activities of the association from its executive board;
  • To use the equipment and the library of the association in furtherance of the goals of the association;
  • To display the logo of the association (such as on their websites, publications, t-shits, etc.).

Three or more members wishing to do so will be given the opportunity to establish thematic working groups addressing specific issues that promote the purposes of the association.
Members have the right to receive information about the budget and activities of the association and to express their opinions concerning the actions undertaken by the association.
Members have the right to express opinions on behalf of the association but only with the approval of the executive board of the association.
All intellectual products created within the association are the property of the association and may be used only with permission of the governing and the executive board of the association.
Members may use the equipment of the association (a computer, a copy device, a printer) free of charge. Printing is free of charge up to 20 pages for members.
Specific days and hours will be allocated for the use of this equipment, and the schedule will be displayed on the association’s web page.

Obligations of Membership

Members are required to:

  • To undertake the obligations taken before association;
  • To pay the membership annual fee established by the governing board of the association;
  • To value the dignity and authority of the association;
  • To value the property of the association;
  • To not take actions contrary to the interest of the association.

In the event of default of the above obligations, the executive unite of the association reserves the right to take measures to protect the interests of the association.

Programs for Recruitment of Members, their Employment and Programs in their Interests

Group Orientation Trainings

The association will hold special orientation trainings for each newly joined 10 members of the association. These trainings describe in general terms the rights, duties and obligations of the members.

Members Individual Orientation Trainings

Individual orientation trainings of members will include interviews with potential members to ensure familiarization with their personal interests in the association. After the meetings the functions of the new members will be defined, the duties and deadlines for their activities will be identified and job descriptions and the work plans will be developed.

Members Professional Development Trainings

The association will conduct trainings to further the professional development of members.

Coordination, Supervision and Management of Members

Special staff will be allocated within the association to coordinate member recruitment. These persons will work with members both individually and in groups. GEA will periodically assess activities undertaken by its members.

Procedures of the Withdrawal of Members

Members of the association may terminate their membership without any obstacles by submitting one month’s notice to the board. The member is responsible for the completion of any obligations undertaken before the association within this period. After withdrawal from the association, members shall not be entitled to any refund of membership dues paid.

Membership Suspension and Expulsion

At the decision of the board of the association a member may be suspended or expelled from the association under following circumstances:

  • in the event of infringement of the statutes of the association;
  • in the event of violation of the obligations taken before the association;
  • for activities that jeopardize its presence among the members of the association or creates the basis for losing their trust.

In the case of non-payment of the annual membership fee the member will be automatically expelled from the association.
In the case of an expulsion or suspension of a member, the executive unit of the association shall ask for an oral or written explanation. The member has right to appeal for the reinstatement of membership after one year.

Differences between the Members and the Employees of the Association

The position of employees of the association differs from that of the members in that employees are part of the staff of the association, their jobs are reimbursable and they work on a daily basis.

Differences between the Association Members and the Volunteers

Members have the right to participate in elections for the governing board of the association and to present their own nominees. Volunteers have no right to participate on the board and they may not participate in any decision-making process.
Volunteers contribute significantly to the realization of the objectives of the association. It is through volunteers that information about the association is delivered quickly to the general public. By working in the association, volunteers get the opportunity to gain experience and moral satisfaction.

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Physical persons and legal entities are members of the Georgian Evaluation Association

Annual fee for the physical persons is 120 GEL

Those interested to become affiliated with the association should fill the below given application form
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gea publications

Books

With the support of Swiss Embassy in Georgia Georgian Evaluation Association translated into Georgian and published a textbook of the Australian scholar John M. Owen “Program Evaluation – Forms and Approaches”. Nino Saakashvili, president of the Georgian Evaluation Association supervised the translation and publication of the book.
John Owen is a well-known specialist between the leading scholars and experts in the area of evaluation. Based on a rich practical material the book covers a lot of issued related to program evaluation including: Evaluation fundamentals, forms (proactive, clarificative, interactive, monitoring, impact evaluation) and approaches; Evaluation findings and utilization; Standards of evaluation, criteria and other interesting issues.

Quarterly Bulletins

resources

Through listed contacts one can find new and ongoing projects in the area of evaluation, obtain information on the conferences and other activities dedicated to the issues of evaluation, publications and opportunities and services offered.

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Georgian Evaluation AssociationDolidze st. 0171 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTel: +995 599 578680, +995 322 365155 | Fax: +995 322 36 61 91Email: gea@evaluation.org.ge

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EvalPartners brings together national/regional evaluation associations, development partners, parliamentarians, civil society and government representatives to prepare to celebrate 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation and to use the visibility brought to evaluation profession by the EvalYear 2015 to strengthen an evaluation culture in each country. Following are the events scheduled for 2015 year:

  • EvalMENA Conference to be held in Cairo, Egypt, in 3rd week of February 2015;
  • Latin-American and Caribbean Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization Network (RELAC) 4th International Conference to be held in Lima, Peru, on 9-13 March 2015;
  • United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) evaluation week to be held in New York, USA, on 9-13 March 2015;
  • Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) conference to be held in Montreal, Canada, on 24-27 May 2015;
  • Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) conference to be held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2015;
  • International Program Evaluation Network (IPEN) conference to be held the last week of September 2015;
  • National Evaluation Capacities conference and IDEAS Global Assembly to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, in October 2015;

  • American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference to be held in Chicago. USA, on 7-15 November 2015.