This upcoming webinar, hosted by EvalforEarth and ALNAP, will explore how evaluation can be a tool for system transformation in response to the growing climate and environmental crises.

Rather than reinforcing the status quo, evaluation has the potential to support meaningful shifts—moving from hindsight to foresight, from top-down approaches to community-led processes, and from fragmented evidence to holistic, just, and value-driven learning.

The session will:

• Examine how evaluation can support systems change, with a focus on power dynamics, local knowledge, and critical competencies needed in the current context.

• Highlight practical entry points for applying systems thinking in evaluations of environmental and climate initiatives.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Ian Goldman | President, International Evaluation Academy; Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, CLEAR Pakistan and Central Asia/Anglophone Africa

• Stefano D’Errico | Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, IIED

• Sarah Gharbi | Research Fellow, ALNAP

• Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen | Senior Lecturer, King’s College London

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Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with leading voices in the evaluation field and deepen your understanding of how evaluation can contribute to systemic change.

When: Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 13.00-14.30 (CEST)

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Background: 

Fostering innovative partnership to strengthen pluralistic EAS in Agrifood systems: Cases from Africa

Date: June 25, 2024

Time: 14:00 – 16:00 CET/15:00 – 17:00 EAT

Venue: Virtual (English)
Register here: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9hz0HHxfTY2FD-eonqQyHg

Different countries have different experience in designing and implementing pluralistic extension services systems based on their specific situation, challenges, and priorities. The Office of Innovation and the Regional Office for Africa of FAO, and the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) initiated a joint activity in documenting and showcasing different good practices of pluralistic Extension and Advisory systems (EAS) in countries in Africa; and facilitating knowledge and experience sharing among countries across the region. Three cases have been selected for the webinar through a rigorous selection process.

In this regard, two separate webinars are being organized (In English and French).

This webinar is only in English. If you are interested in attending the French one (Fall 2024), please indicate your interest in the registration form and we will inform you in due time.

Tentative agenda:

·        14:00 – 14:15:             Setting the scene

·        14:15 – 14:35:             Enabling environment for pluralistic EAS

·        14:35 – 14:45              Reflection (Q & A)

·        14:45 – 15:30              Experience sharing session: Good pluralistic EAS cases

·        15:30 – 15:50              Reflection (Q & A)

·        15:50 – 16:00              Closing remarks

This regional event for all DeSIRA projects in Eastern and Southern Africa will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, during the Science and Partnerships for Agriculture Conference (SPAC 2024).
The CONNECT Days Eastern and Southern Africa are being prepared in close collaboration with FARA.

Purpose of the CONNECT Days

This event aims to share the lessons learned in the implementation of DeSIRA projects and to identify the conditions to continue their innovation trajectories.

To this end, the event is anticipated to offer three types of activities:

• a project fair with individual booths to promote and discuss your projects,
• inter-project thematic workshops to learn together from the implementation of DeSIRA, and
• round tables with other stakeholders aimed at continuing the innovation trajectories of projects.

Each activity is designed to feed into the others.

We have reserved spaces for all your projects and organisations in each activity so that you can present various facets and results. In this way, we aim to offer you optimal exposure both individually and collectively.

The programme will be detailed and regularly updated on the dedicated page on our website, and we will also send you updates.

in three components: a day of exchanges between projects aimed at identifying common lessons, a day of contacts with third parties with whom to continue or scale up DeSIRA innovations, a day with regional and international organisations to feed the agenda of sustainable agricultural innovations in favour of climate and biodiversity.

More on the webpage of the event

• Date: June 25, 2024
• Time: 14:00 – 16:00 CET/15:00 – 17:00 EAT
• Venue: Virtual (English)
• Register here: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9hz0HHxfTY2FD-eonqQyHg

Background: Different countries have different experiences in designing and implementing pluralistic extension services systems based on their specific situation, challenges, and priorities. The Office of Innovation and the Regional Office for Africa of FAO, and the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) initiated a joint activity in documenting and showcasing different good practices of pluralistic Extension and Advisory systems (EAS) in countries in Africa; and facilitating knowledge and experience sharing among countries across the region. Three cases have been selected for the webinar through a rigorous selection process.

In this regard, two separate webinars are being organized (In English and French).

This webinar is only in English. If you are interested in attending the French one (Fall 2024), please indicate your interest in the registration form and they will inform you in due time.

Tentative agenda:

• 14:00 – 14:15:             Setting the scene
• 14:15 – 14:35:             Keynote speech and technical paper on pluralistic EAS
• 14:35 – 14:45              Reflection (Q & A)
• 14:45 – 15:30              Experience sharing session: Good pluralistic EAS cases
• 15:30 – 15:50              Reflection (Q & A)
• 15:50 – 16:00              Closing remarks

This regional event for all DeSIRA projects in Latin America and the Caribbean will be organised in three components: a day of exchanges between projects aimed at identifying common lessons, a day of contacts with third parties with whom to continue or scale up DeSIRA innovations, a day with regional and international organisations to feed the agenda of sustainable agricultural innovations in favour of climate and biodiversity.

More on the webpage of the event