The
role of evaluation has increasingly been recognized as critical to the
achievement of development results. It has now become an integral part
of policy and strategy formulation, programme and project management and
organization capacity development in almost all the UN organizations,
Governments, NGO and corporate sector. The expansion in the scope of
evaluation activities requires a large and strong core group of
evaluation professionals. However, in the South Asian region there is a
dearth of professional evaluation expertise. Evaluation professionals
lack access to high-quality professional development training in
evaluation, which consequently has hindered the evaluation capacity in
the region. Evaluations tend to be put off due to weaknesses in
programme design and implementation. More broadly, a lack of emphasis
on the role of evaluation within an organization’s culture of learning
and accountability has also limited evaluation capabilities. The
capacity building is required at all levels regional, national and
sub-national.
This
training programme aims to bridge this gap.