Dobility India will be in New Delhi, India February 7-9 to participate in EvalFest 2018: Voice, visibility and value! Our team is looking forward to participating in this great event, hosted by the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI).
The goal of EvalFest 2018 is to co-produce knowledge and build partnerships with various stakeholders in Development and Evaluation. These partnerships will also help to ensure that evaluation and evidence use are cornerstones in how India works towards achieving SDGs focusing upon engaging stakeholders, inclusiveness, and innovation.
Themes for the conference include:
- Engaging Community and other stakeholders in Development and Evaluation: field building, innovation in process and utility orientation
- Inclusion: social, economic, cultural and behavioral
- Innovations: new knowledge and practice
- Ethics and evaluations
- Road to SDGs: prioritization, building evaluation capabilities and evidence use
EvalFest 2018 is free and it’s easy to register! We hope to see you there!
Dobility India at EvalFest 2018
Dobility India’s Associate Director, Maulik Chauhan, will participate in the session, “Data, Evaluation, Communication, and Transformation.” This session will highlight the problems related to collecting high quality data and the challenges of including the voices of the most marginalized people as stakeholders of development. Additionally, the participants will discuss the important issues surrounding how best to communicate data driven evaluation findings to decision makers. The session will focus on how good data and communication of findings appropriately leads to transformations of society. In this session, Maulik will also give a presentation titled, “Garbage In, Garbage Out: How to Ensure That an Evaluation is Based on High-Quality Data, Without Breaking the Bank.”
For those of you who are new to our technology, SurveyCTO is an ODK-based data collection platform that has been used to collect millions of submissions in over 150 countries by organizations such as the World Bank, J-PAL South Asia, Innovations for Poverty Action, OXFAM, Clinton Health Access Initiative, and many others committed to rigorous data collection and analysis in rural economic development, agriculture, health, education, and other sectors.
