The 15th European Evaluation Bennial Conference 2024 – Rimni, Italy
On the 23 – 27 September 2024, Twende Mbele attended the 15th European Evaluation Bennial Conference 2024. The theme of the conference was “Better Together: collaborative thought and action for better evaluation”, building upon the valuable feedback received following Copenhagen 2022 and from other previous events, the EES 2024 provided a new and even stronger opportunity to share, learn, and come together as a community.
The 2024 conference themes are reflective of a different approach to learning and sharing anchored on collaboration; the modalities combine old and trusted approaches with innovative ones. The programme was reflective of the facility and designed to ensure that the physical space is used in the best possible way to facilitate sharing and collaboration. The conference aimed to focus the European M&E agenda on younger and less often heard voices on the evaluation spectrum. The conference also invited EES TWGs and evaluation communities of practice to work with the EES in shaping sessions and strands and showcase new approaches and innovative collaborations in their fields of evaluation. Achieving these objectives the EES relied on the goodwill of European M&E community to embrace both collaboration and inclusion in the pursuit of a richer, more dynamic and impactful evaluation sector.
Twende Mbele hosted a panel discussion titled,“Moving Forward Together: The Peer-to-Peer Learning Collaboration Approach by Twende Mbele as Developmental Internationalism?”, to highlight experiences of Twende Mbele member nations in adopting peer-learning collaborations approach to co-build evaluative cultures across the public institutions in a bid to positively influence national development priorities and identify mechanisms that can improve such collaborations to advance the continental and international development goals.
The key research question the Twende Mbele panel was trying to answer was: how can Twende Mbele countries continue to collaboratively share, learn and innovate M&E practices and systems that contribute to these governments’ mutual facilitation of positive socio-economic change and political instability in the dynamic sub-Saharan Africa region?
The slide presentation can be found below:
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