Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) and American Evaluation Association (AEA) ‘Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries’ Conference, October 2005, Toronto |
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In 2004-2005 B. Cousins served as the co-program chair of this the third ever joint meeting between AEA and CES. With over 2,400 delegates registered, this conference represents the largest evaluation conference every held. Keynote speakers were Roberta Jamieson of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Sheila Fraser, Auditor General of Canada and General Roméo Daillaire (ret.), Canadian Senator and founder of the Roméo Daillaire Foundation. |
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| Three and one half days of plenary and concurrent sessions were augmented by two days of professional development workshops. |
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Evaluation of the ‘International Program for Development Evaluation Training’ (IPDET) (2004 to present)
IPDET is an international training program sponsored by the World Bank and Carleton University. Each summer some 100 or so evaluators and managers from over 60 countries come to Ottawa for the two week summer core program and/or two weeks worth of specialized workshops in evaluation. Candidates come from developing and developed nations around the globe, many of them on the basis of scholarships made available through IPDETs recruitment efforts. B. Cousins continues to evaluate the program on an annual basis since 2004. For more information about IPDET please visit www.ipdet.org . |
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Evaluation of the Educational Leadership Programme in India (2001-2002)
Sponsored by the Aga Khan Foundation, Canada, B. Cousins was subcontracted by Queen’s University to conduct an evaluation of the Educational Leadership Programme (ELP) which was developed and managed by the Centre for Educational Management Development (CEMD) in New Delhi, India. The evaluation was initially to involve two separate components: 1) a participatory evaluation component intended to be formative in nature and to assist CEMD in revising and improving the ELP and 2) a summative component that was to subsequently determine the extent to which ELP had responded to recommendations for change arising from the formative evaluation.
The formative evaluation was conducted over two site visits with CEMD staff, alumni and other stakeholders participating in the design, data collection and analysis and reporting of the evaluation in partnership with the Canadian team. The formative document listed 23 recommendations for ELP modifications. Ultimately, due to unforeseen circumstances the summative evaluation component has been postponed. |
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Evaluation of the Russian Public Health Association (RPHA) (1996-97)
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The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), with sponsorship from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), led a project having as a primary objective the development and implementation of a national public health association in Russia. Given the early stages of the development project, CPHA’s commitment to fostering sustainable long-term development activities, and geographical and resource limitations, CPHA decided to take a participatory evaluation approach, and recruited B. Cousins to coordinate the evaluation initiative. |
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| The evaluation took place over a 1 year period and involved two site visits to Moscow. A variety of public health professionals from across Russia participated in the project. Together, using sequential translation, the team designed the study, developed interview guides, gathered and analyzed interview and document data and prepared a report that was ultimately released in Russian. |
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