The Community has begun to actively engage and work towards improving the quality of evaluation in South Asia.

The COE has so far achieved the following:

• Initiated the community - Enrolled 24 members
• Organized its first meeting in Dec 2009 in New Delhi. To know more about this meeting, please see EVENTS HELD
• Decided its Goal, Objectives, Norms of the COE
• Developed common perspective (Developing concept notes now) on:
  • Evaluation context in the South Asian Region (Trends, Challenges & opportunities)
  • Making Evaluations participatory and use focused
• Sponsored 5 members to attend the Impact Evaluation Conference in Cairo.
• Invited to present Paper and be on Panel discussion in the Conference of the Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA) in April 2009
• Also sponsoring members to attend the professional development program of SLEvA
• Preparation & Writing of papers on theme of Evaluation by the members
• Started a List serve for members – COE Secretariat and the members informing each other about conferences, resource material, evaluation opportunities.

Second meeting of CoE:

The second meeting of CoE was organized from April 26 to 29, 2009. For details, please see CoE events held

CoE was represented at the Biennial international conference of the Sri Lankan Evaluation Association (SLEvA). CoE made a panel presentation on “Role of Networks in Capacity Building on evaluation”. CoE was represented by Khilesh Chaturvedi, facilitator of the CoE, Dr. Rashmi Agrawal, Steering Committee members of the CoE, and by its three members, namely Khairul Islam from Bangladesh, Ramesh Tuladhar from Nepal and Asela Kalugampitiya from Sri Lanka.

Khilesh Chaturvedi, facilitator of the CoE, participated in a Round Table to discuss the State of Evaluation in Afghanistan. The round table was organized by International Development Research Centre at Colombo on April 26th, 2009.

Future Actions:

• Develop and disseminate Policy guidelines and Ethics of Evaluation – this is currently in progress
• Develop papers and articles on the theory and practice of Evaluation – two such papers currently being written are on “Making Evaluation Use Focused” and “Evaluation Context in South Asia”.
• Capacity Building on Evaluation – conduct experience sharing and thematic seminars and trainings in the next two years
• Review and analysis of Evaluation methodologies (Outcome Mapping, Most Significant Change, Log Frame Analysis, Participatory Evaluation, Impact Assessment etc)
• Advocacy and networking on issues related to Evaluation
• Organisation of Bi-annual seminars for members on theme of Evaluation. The next seminar of COE will be from April 27 to 29, 2009 in Colombo and all the members, including the new ones that are selected, will be invited to attend the seminar
• Enrolling new members from other South Asian countries