Mainstreaming ecosystem health, and equity lens into all evaluations
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The aim of this session is to foster an understanding of why we need to integrate ecosystem health and an equity perspective into all evaluations and some practical ways of how we might do this. Recent environmental and humanitarian disasters, including flooding, fires, droughts and pollution, have starkly highlighted the interconnectedness of human and natural ecosystems, underscoring the precarious balance that, when disrupted, can lead to catastrophic consequences. This panel will propose a path forward for evaluation that involves a more cooperative, fair, and just collaboration between those most affected and those with greater decision-making authority in our human and natural ecosystems. This session will particularly explore how equity and human rights can and should be addressed together with environmental sustainability, including issues of power dynamics and hegemony.
Moderator(s)
Weronika Felcis
International Evaluation Academy (IEAc)
Vice President and founding Member
Weronika Felcis is vice-President and founding Member of the International Evaluation Academy. She served two terms as Secretary of the IOCE Executive Committee, she served on the Eval-Partners Executive Committee and is a past Board member of the European Evaluation Society. Weronika holds an MA in Sociology and is a graduate of Interdisciplinary Studies “Society Environment Technology” at the Jagiellonian University. She was an exchange student at Warwick University in Social Research in 2008/2009 and a scholarship recipient of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation in the Centre for Social Innovation and Research “Shipyard”. In 2014, she joined the Polish Evaluation Society of which she later became President. She was a Program Director of the first Polish Evaluation Congress which brought together evaluations from different sectors and fields. She is devoted to building networks and enabling the evaluation environment in Europe, especially in the CEE region. She coordinated the Network of Evaluation Societies in Europe (NESE) in 2016-2018. Realizing the pressures of living in the Anthropocene and 6th Mass extinction era, she introduces the theme of system thinking and regenerative living into her evaluation advocacy and lives in an intentional community based on permaculture principles she co-developed in Latvia.
Presenter(s)
Andy Rowe
Footprint Evaluation
Founding Member
Fellow and former President of Canadian Evaluation Society and recipient of the Society’s award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada with over thirty-five years conducting evaluations in a wide range of natural resource and human settings now focusing on sustainability and climate.
Dr. Rowe has published extensively on developing a focus and capacity for evaluating sustainability, led the Canadian Evaluation Society assessment of a sustainability-ready evaluation capacity, is a founding member of Footprint established on the premise that all evaluations should include consideration of environmental sustainability. He has also developed a new approach for evaluating impacts (Rapid Impact Evaluation), for use-seeking assessments and for assessing net environmental impacts of an intervention. Andy served on the initial Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaptation Fund. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Jane Davidson
Real Evaluation
Founder and Principal Consultant
Dr. Jane Davidson is an internationally recognized evaluation specialist, best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a methodology for drawing conclusions about quality and value. She has also made significant contributions in the areas of causal inference for qualitative and mixed methods, and in synthesis methodologies for evaluation. Jane is former Associate Director of the internationally recognized Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where she launched and directed the world’s first fully Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. She was the 2019 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s prestigious Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award.
Janett Salvador Martinez
International Evaluation Academy (IEAc)
Evaluator
Mexican evaluator, she has conducted evaluations within the Performance Evaluation System of federal and subnational programmes. Experience in prospective (design) and implementation (process) evaluations with emphasis on two areas of economic and social infrastructure and evaluation of social programmes, with participatory methodologies.
Kassem El Saddik
International Evaluation Academy (IEAc)
Learning and Evaluation Advisor
Kassem El Saddik is a Learning and Evaluation Advisor. With more than 20 years of experience, Kassem has led various evaluations of complex development and humanitarian programs, particularly in conflict-affected and fragile states. He is credited for being at the forefront of global evaluation networks promoting the evaluation of the 2030 Agenda. Kassem is a founding member of EVALSDGs, EVALMENA, served on board of several Evaluation Reference Groups (SDG 5 Evaluation Synthesis) and ALNAP Advisory Group. He has co-authored series of Policy Briefs and a guidebook on evaluating the SDGs, led EvalPartner’s flagship programs granting VOPEs to institutionalize national evaluation capacities. Kassem is currently coordinating EvalPartners’ Global Forum for Evaluation (GEF) 2024.
Sonal Zaveri
International Evaluation Academy (IEAc)
Moderator and Speaker
Sonal has over 30 years’ experience in strategic planning, program design, capacity building, mentoring and evaluation. Sonal’s interests relate to how rights, inclusion, local wisdom and gender are addressed across complex human and natural ecosystems. She has co-designed evaluation principles and adapted evaluation approaches that address participation, transformation, decolonisation and feminist thought that challenge evaluation thinking and practice. She is based in India.
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