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SUMMARY:2025 CES-ON AGM and Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:CES – Ontario is pleased to announce that the chapter’s Annual General Meeting will be held online on June 17\, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. \nWhy Attend the AGM? \nThe AGM is a great opportunity to: \n– Learn more about recent chapter activities; \n– Elect new board members and approve any bylaw changes; \n– Participate in the annual Learning Event. \nEvent Agenda: \n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: AGM presentation\, including progress on our strategic goals and upcoming chapter events\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Learning Event: IDEA (Inclusion\, Diversity\, Equity and Accessibility) in Artificial Intelligence with Jane Whynot\n\nWe will distribute the Annual General Meeting package\, including a full agenda\, Annual Report\, and audited financial statements\, to all CES members and event attendees prior to the event. \nAbout the Learning Event: IDEA (Inclusion\, Diversity\, Equity and Accessibility) in Artificial Intelligence.  \nThe potential of AI to drive progress is significant\, however\, the current landscape often reflects deep-seated biases and inequities that can perpetuate discrimination. Without a concerted effort to prioritize diversity and inclusion\, AI systems may inadvertently reinforce existing societal disparities\, ultimately leading to mistrust and harm. Recognizing these challenges is essential for fostering meaningful change and ensuring that AI serves as a tool for equity rather than a source of division. This presentation discusses the historical context from an IDEA perspective\, pinpoints where biases/discrimination can be disrupted by evaluators\, and provides examples of what evaluators can do. \nAbout the Speaker: \nJane Whynot\, MEd\, PhD is a Partner at Goss Gilroy Management Consultants Inc (GGI)\, Jane has almost 30 years of experience in evaluation and performance measurement. Jane conducts work in all sectors\, from employment to small business\, from science to culture. Jane has a Masters of Assessment and Evaluation (University of Melbourne) and a Doctorate in Philosophy exploring how GBA Plus is integrated in the federal government evaluation function (University of Ottawa). She is an associate editor at the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation and holds adjunct status at Carleton University. Jane is committed to lifelong learning\, is a seasoned keynote and routinely presents at international evaluation conferences including AEA\, CES\, and PPX symposia. She has designed and delivered training on evaluation\, performance measurement\, GBA Plus\, the integration of GBA Plus in evaluation\, and qualitative methods in evaluation over her career.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2025-ces-on-agm-and-learning-event/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership
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SUMMARY:2024 CES Ontario Annual General Meeting and Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:CES – Ontario is pleased to announce that the chapter’s Annual General Meeting will be held online on June 19\, 2024 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. \nWhy Attend the AGM? \nThe AGM is a great opportunity to: \n– Learn more about recent chapter activities; \n– Elect new board members and approve any bylaw changes; \n– Participate in the annual Learning Event. \nEvent Agenda: \n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: AGM presentation\, including progress on our strategic goals and upcoming chapter events\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00PM: Learning Event: Communities of Practice and Evaluation\n\n\nWe will distribute the Annual General Meeting package\, including a full agenda\, Annual Report\, and audited financial statements\, to all CES Ontario members and event attendees prior to the event. \nLearning Event: Communities of Practice and Evaluation \nJoin us at our fireside chat on communities of practice and evaluation! We have invited five organizations to speak about how they manage evaluation communities of practice and share information regarding different CoPs. This engaging panel aims to facilitate a discussion on lessons learned\, impact and operations of CoPs and to enable CES Ontario members to get a broader understanding of the opportunities to connect\, network and engage with a wide range of evaluators and CoPs in Ontario and beyond. \nParticipating Communities of Practice \n• The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE)\n• Evaluation Café Ontario (EvalCafé)\n• Independent Consulting Community of Interest (CES ICCI)\n• Ontario Public Service Performance Measurement and Evaluation CoP (PM&E OPS)\n• Ontario Public Health Evaluation Network (OPHEN)
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2024-ces-ontario-annual-general-meeting-and-learning-event/
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership
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SUMMARY:CES-ON AGM and Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:CES – Ontario is pleased to announce that the chapter’s Annual General Meeting will be held online on June 15\, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM. \nWhy Attend the AGM? \nThe AGM is a great opportunity to: \n– Learn more about recent chapter activities; \n– Elect new board members and approve any bylaw changes; \n– Participate in the annual Learning Event. \n\nEvent Agenda: \n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: AGM presentation\, including progress on our strategic goals and upcoming chapter events\n\n\n1:00 PM – 2:00PM: Learning Event: Evaluation in Fragile\, Conflict and Violence Contexts with Samandar Mahmodi\n\nWe will distribute the Annual General Meeting package\, including a full agenda\, Annual Report\, and audited financial statements\, to all CES members and event attendees prior to the event.  \nAbout the Learning Event: \nAchievement of the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals is impacted by the uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic\, conflicts\, climate change\, and social and environmental injustices. Influential evaluation is considered a key component to evidence-informed policy and decision-making; therefore\, it is of utmost importance in the contexts of fragility\, conflict\, violence (FCV) and humanitarian crises. The presentation will focus on an overview of working in fragile and crisis settings\, focusing on the role monitoring and evaluation plays\, and share strategies on how to design\, conduct\, manage\, and use evaluation in FCV contexts. \nAbout the Speaker: \nSamandar Mahmodi a program evaluation professional with 15+ years of experience in designing\, managing & conducting program evaluations in the international development and non-profit sectors. He worked in senior positions and provided consulting for international development sector clients in Afghanistan\, on projects funded by the USAID\, Work Bank\, and United Nation agencies and non-profits.  \nMr. Mahmodi is an active member and contributor to the global evaluation community\, he has founded the Afghan Evaluation Society\, co-founded EvalYouth Asia and EvalYouth Afghanistan\, and served as board member and vice president to the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA). He is a member of the CES\, AEA\, EES\, and has worked as the Executive Coordinator for EvalPartners during 2020-2023\, where he managed to closely work and collaborate with VOPEs\, the IOCE and other evaluation networks.  \nCurrently\, Mr. Mahmodi works as Monitoring Expert with Integrity Global\, who is the Monitoring Agent for the World Bank managed Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF)\, implemented through the UN agencies in Afghanistan.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/ces-on-agm-and-learning-event/
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership
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SUMMARY:2022 CES-ON AGM & Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:CES – Ontario is pleased to announce that the chapter’s 26th Annual General Meeting will be held online on June 22\, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. \nRegister here!  \nWhy Attend the AGM? \nThe AGM is a great opportunity to: \n– Learn more about recent chapter activities; \n– Elect new board members and approve any bylaw changes; \n– Participate in the annual Learning Event. \nEvent Agenda: \n\n11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: AGM presentation\, including progress on our strategic goals\, our recent incorporation as a non-profit\, and upcoming chapter events\n\n\n12:30 PM – 12:40 PM: 10-minute bio break\n\n\n12:40 PM – 2:00PM: Learning Event: Culturally responsive approaches to evaluation: Making sense of theory and practice with Dr. Jill Chouinard\n\nWe will distribute the Annual General Meeting package\, including a full agenda\, Annual Report\, and audited financial statements\, to all CES members and event attendees prior to the event. \nAbout the Learning Event: \nJoin us for a discussion with Dr. Jill Chouinard on culturally responsive evaluation. The presentation will include a reflection on the roots of evaluation and how evaluation practices and theory have evolved over time. Please bring your questions and thoughts to this thought-provoking event! \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Jill Anne Chouinard is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration. Her interdisciplinary scholarship is shaped by anthropology\, cultural studies\, feminism\, critical theory\, social geography and post modernism\, all of which informs her interest in culture\, and in issues of in/equity and social justice\, whether here at home or more globally. Her main research areas are in culturally responsive approaches to research and evaluation\, participatory research and evaluation\, and evaluation and public policy. Much of her evaluation work has been conducted in culturally and socially diverse community settings\, where she has extensive experience leading evaluations at the community level in the areas of education\, social services\, public health\, and organizational learning and change. She positions evaluation as a catalyst for learning\, collaboration\, equity\, social justice and community change.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2022-ces-on-agm-learning-event/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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SUMMARY:2020 CES Ontario Annual General Meeting + Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 24th annual CES Ontario AGM and Learning Event! This event is open to all members of the Canadian Evaluation Society Ontario chapter\, as well as interested members of the public. \nEvent Agenda: \n9:30 AM-11:00 AM: AGM presentation: report back on 2019/20 activities and plans to address strategic plan and results of members survey \n11:00-11:10 AM: 10-minute bio break \n11:10AM-12:00PM: Learning Event: Re-imagining Evaluation Criteria: Learning Lessons from the Pandemic \nWe will distribute the Annual General Meeting package\, including a full agenda\, Annual Report\, and audited financial statements\, to all CES members and event attendees prior to the event.  \nAbout the Learning Event: \n Re-imagining Evaluation Criteria: Learning Lessons from the Pandemic \nEvaluators have long debated on the criteria that should be used to evaluate interventions. The criteria are linked to both the purpose of the evaluation and also to the type of intervention under consideration. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has argued for the following criteria in its recent updating. They include: (1) Relevance (Is the intervention doing the right thing?); (2) Coherence (How well does the intervention fit?) (3) Effectiveness (Is the intervention achieving its objectives?); (4) Efficiency (How well are resources being used?); (5) Impact (What difference does the intervention make?); (6) Sustainability (will the benefits last?) \nIn light of experiences that interventions have had with the recent pandemic\, we will explore if these criteria are sufficient to understand the value added of interventions. We also will explore these criteria in light of the focus of the Sustainable Development Goals of “no one left behind.” The focus of this presentation will be on understanding how such criteria shape our imagination and measurement of how programs work\, how programs can be designed to address inequities and the types of evaluation approaches that capture the value-added of interventions \nAbout the Speaker: \nSanjeev Sridharan is Country Lead\, Learning Systems and Systems Evaluation at the India Country Office of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sanjeev was the Founding Director of the Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions at St. Michaels Hospital and Associate Professor at the Institute for Health Policy\, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Prior to his position at Toronto\, he was the Head of the Evaluation Program and Senior Research Fellow at the Research Unit in Health\, Behaviour and Change at the University of Edinburgh. He is a former associate editor of the American Journal of Evaluation and has been on the boards of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation\, New Directions for Evaluation and the Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning. \n\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2020-ces-ontario-agm-learning-event-tickets-107348797142.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2020-ces-ontario-annual-general-meeting-learning-event/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190619T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190619T163000
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SUMMARY:2019 CES AGM + Learning Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 23rd annual CES Ontario AGM and Learning Event! This event is open to all members of the Canadian Evaluation Society Ontario chapter\, as well as interested members of the public. \n  \nEvent Agenda:\n1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Registration & Networking \n1:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Annual General Meeting + Integrated Strategic/Operational Plan update and consultation \n3:45 PM – 4:00 AM: Break & Networking Event \n4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Learning Event: Feminist Data Analysis \n  \nAnnual General Meeting + Integrated Strategic/Operational Plan update and consultation\nAs you are all aware\, CES Ontario has undertaken an integrated strategic and operational planning process (ISOP) to guide us over the next 5 years. In this session\, members will review our updated Vision\, Mission\, Value Statements\, and Strategic Directions. We will also be engaging members in helping us identify key activities to move our operational planning forward and bring our ISOP Goals to life. \nLearning Event: Feminist Data Analysis\n\nVery few people become evaluators because they want to promote racist or sexist ideas. However\, it’s very easy to accidentally fall into these traps\, particularly in the data-centric aspects of evaluation. A working understanding of how to incorporate ethics and equity into quantitative evaluation is essential. Heather’s talk will tell stories and show real world examples that will guide you through the process of learning to identify inequity and hidden bias at seven key stages of the evaluation data lifecycle. \nAbout the Speaker:\nHeather Krause is a data scientist working on projects for equity and ethics in data. As a statistician (PStat) she attacks the largest questions facing societies today\, working with non-profit and social sector organizations\, local and national governments\, and data journalists. Her relentless pursuit of clarity and realism in these projects pushed her beyond pure analysis to mastering the entire data ecosystem including ground-breaking work in evaluation\, data sourcing\, design\, visualization\, communication\, and journalism\, each incorporating bleeding edge theory and technologies. Her unique contributions have been sought across a range of clients from individual researchers to large international organizations including FiveThirtyEight\, Orb Media\, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\, CARE\, MasterCard\, the UNHCR\, and several national governments. \nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2019-ces-ontario-agm-learning-event-tickets-62239544152.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2019-ces-agm-learning-event/
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership,Social Networking,Student,Student & New Practitioner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180619T083000
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SUMMARY:2018 CES Ontario AGM + Member Consultation
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 22nd annual CES Ontario AGM + Member Consultation! This event is open to all members of the Canadian Evaluation Society – Ontario chapter\, as well as interested members of the public. \nEvent Agenda:\n8:30 – 9:00 AM: Registration\, Breakfast & Networking \n9:00 – 10:00 AM: AGM \n10:00 – 10:30 AM: Break & Networking Event \n10:30 – 11:55 AM: CES Ontario Integrated Strategic-Operational Plan Member Consultation \n11:55 – 12:00 PM: Closing Statements \nMember Consultation:\nSonja Nerad from SN Management will be facilitating a session at the upcoming Annual General Meeting. The purpose of this 90-minute session is to provide members of CES-ON with an opportunity to engage in the current strategic and operational planning and inform the Board of Directors decision making process as it looks to establish its three-year priorities. In advance of the session we will share a “Backgrounder” that will set out the key issues that are facing our organization and provide the evolving context for our strategic planning. SN Management will ask members to critically reflect on the key issues and help to shape the emerging strategic plan by assessing a series of opportunities and options for strengthening the Chapter’s relevance and sustainability over the coming three to five years. \nAbout the Consultants:\nSonja Nerad\, founder and owner of SN Management is excited to be supporting the CES-ON to develop an integrated strategic and operational plan. SN Management is a fully incorporated management consulting firm established in 2011 specializing in planning\, operations improvement and innovation. We use a strengths based approach grounded in principles of respect and trust to help organizations achieve tangible and practical results while building capacity for continuous learning\, innovation and sustainability. \nThe SN Management Team includes Sonja Nerad\, associate Fredrick Kreutlein and Leigh Himel\, CEO\, Gravity Partners\, a brand strategy\, marketing and communications planning firm. Together\, we offer CES-on our expertise in: \n\nStrategic and business planning\nIntegrated brand assessment\, planning and marketing\nStakeholder engagement\, consultation and change management\nOrganization/system review\, design\, development and capacity building\nFull cycle program planning\, evaluation\, performance measurement and reporting\nPartnership development\, front/back office and corporate integration\nLeadership coaching\, mentoring and interim management.\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2018-ces-ontario-agm-member-consultation-tickets-46382059990.
URL:https://evaluationontario.ca/event/2018-ces-ontario-agm-member-consultation/
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meetings,Membership
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