Evaluation Capacity Building Strategy: Towards a Mature Profession

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Evaluation Capacity Building Strategy Towards a
Mature Profession

• Presented by Alexey Kuzmin, Process Consulting
  Company, Russia www.processconsulting.ru
• at the International Conference on
• National Evaluation Capacities
• 15-17 December, 2009
• Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco

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Presentation outline

• What is EC
• What is ECB
• Vision
• Strategy

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EC Formula

• If you dont use it, you dont have it
• EC POTENTIAL USE

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ECB key concepts

• ECB is two-fold it enhances both ability to do
  (potential) and actual doing (practice)
• ECB is aimed at developing evaluation demand and
  supply
• ECB is aimed at increasing the use of evaluation
  and its results
• ECB requires development and implementation of
  evaluation systems
• ECB requires institutionalization of evaluation
• ECB could be and should be implemented at various
  levels individual, group, organization, sector,
  national
• ECB is linked to creation and development of
  professional evaluation organizations
  (associations)

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Long-term vision for ECB at the national level

• EVALUATION BECOMES A MATURE PROFESSION

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Maturity of profession

• Abraham Flexner Is social work a mature
  profession? (1915)
• Worthen, B. R. Is evaluation a mature profession
  that warrants the preparation of evaluation
  professionals? (1994)

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Maturity of evaluation profession

• Need for evaluation services and specialists
• Stable career opportunities in evaluation
• Body of knowledge and set of skills unique to
  evaluation
• Educational programs and other professional
  development opportunities for evaluators
• Institutionalization of evaluation
• Professional associations for evaluators

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Components of a comprehensive ECB strategy

• Nurturing the need for evaluation services and
  specialists
• Establishing stable career opportunities in
  evaluation
• Creating and maintaining body of knowledge and
  set of skills unique to evaluation
• Developing educational programs and other
  professional development opportunities for
  evaluators
• Institutionalizing evaluation
• Building professional evaluation associations

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ECB Strategy Model
ECB STRATEGY
Core body of knowledge
Need for evaluation
Career opportunities
Education and training
Institutionalization
Professional association
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