About Community of Evaluators - Nepal (CoE-Nepal)

Community of Evaluators – Nepal (CoE-Nepal), was founded on 4th July 2011 (20 Ashad 2068 B.S.) inspired by the feedback received during the symposium on “The Status of Evaluation in Nepal”, held on 11th August 2010 in Kathmandu, and “International Evaluation Conclave” in New Delhi on October 2010. The team of CoE-Nepal comprises a pool of evaluators, development practitioners, and academicians with national and international work experience over decades.

CoE-Nepal is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan organization, registered with the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, Nepal with the registration number 1266. It is affiliated with the Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu, Nepal with the affiliation number 36551. Permanent Account Number (PAN) of CoE-Nepal is 600302302. CoE-Nepal is recognized as a National Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation (VOPE) of Nepal.

Using evaluation findings in the development process is a common challenge in Nepal due to several factors including the capacity of evaluators, quality of evaluation, and practicality of its findings and recommendations as well as the environment within the user organization to use evaluation findings. Thus, there is a need for capacity building of evaluation stakeholders and to create a conducive environment for the use of evaluation in the development cycle.

CoE-Nepal is committed to increasing the quality of evaluation by building the capacity of evaluation stakeholders and promoting the theory, practices, and use of evaluation in Nepal. To promote evaluation, CoE-Nepal acts as a resource center for evaluation knowledge base by collecting lessons drawn from evaluations around the world, producing knowledge through research undertakings, supporting for developing curricula for and carrying out basic and advanced evaluation training to the stakeholders of evaluation.

Vision

Effective development policy, program, and partnership.

Mission

Establish a culture of evaluation at national and international levels through the development and dissemination of knowledge in evaluation, capacity building of evaluation stakeholders, and promotion of evaluation theory and practice.

Goal

Advance the theory, practice, and use of evaluation in development processes.

Objectives

To develop and disseminate knowledge products on evaluation,
To enhance the capacity of development actors on quality evaluation,
To strengthen the dialogue mechanism for promoting the use of evaluation.

1. Knowledge Developments

1.1. Situation analysis of evaluation practices and uses in Nepal,
1.2. Review and synthesis of new knowledge, innovation, and trends in evaluation criteria, research methodology, and evaluability assessment,
1.3. Meta evaluations,
1.4. Innovative and emerging evaluation research such as appreciative inquiry, contribution analysis, socio-economic impact,
1.5. Studies on the use of evaluation by stakeholders,
1.6. Studies on the new dimensions in the evaluation of specific programs such as climate change, disaster risk management, security system reforms, peace and development; etc.,
1.7. Occasional papers on evaluation practices.

2. Capacity Buildings

2.1. Basic and advanced training on evaluation theory, tools, and techniques,
2.2. Seminar/workshop/conference/conclave on evaluation theory, practices, model, methods and emerging approaches,
2.3. Professional development training of evaluators on evaluation standards, ethics, norms, and code of conduct.

3. Promotion of Evaluation Theory and Practices

3.1. Networking with organizations working on the promotion of evaluation,
3.2. Advocacy for mainstreaming evaluation in the development cycle,
3.3. Policy dialogue for the effective use of evaluation,
3.4. Establishment of ethics, standards, norms, and code of conduct in evaluation,
3.5. Collaborative research and outreach with national and international evaluation organizations,
3.6. Profiling of Evaluators.