What we do

We build evaluation capacities in the Czech Republic

2019

The Czech Development Agency (CzechAid) supported the project “Evaluation - the path to systems change” with a grant. ČES produced this report: “Strengthening the capacities of NGO platforms for development cooperation (including strengthening capacities and NGO partnerships)”.

This project is a follow-up to support by the Czech Development Agency in 2018 for other activities that the ČES regularly carries out. These are mostly carried out by member volunteers to make Czech evaluators more in sync with global evaluations and practices. The broader aim is to enable Czech evaluators, grantors, and project managers to share their experiences, problems, and attitudes with foreign evaluation experts. It is also to encourage interest in evaluation and develop international and cross-sectoral cooperation and networking. One aspect of the project is co-organizing the IDEAS Global Assembly in Prague and the Third International Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development, from 30 September – 4 October 2019.

 
The medium-term objectives of the project are:
1. Increased use of Czech experts in international project and evaluation teams (to be verified by a survey among Czech members in 2020) and
2. Higher rates of long-term and ad hoc cooperation with other areas of national and European programs.
 
The goal of the project is to increase the impact of projects and evaluations carried out by members and partners of the Czech Evaluation Society. The primary indicator that Czech contributions to evaluations have made an impact will be the acceptance and use of most of these systemic recommendations by the contracting organizations/ donors.
 
Term: Jan-Dec 2019
Implementer: Czech Evaluation Society, z.s.
Total amount: CZK 472 000 (25% co-financing), equivalent to $21,095 (22.37 exchange rate) or €18,240 (30.62 exchange rate)

2018

Development activities of the Czech Evaluation Society

The Czech Development Agency gave a grant to the program of “Strengthening the capacities of NGO platforms for development cooperation (including strengthening capacities and partnerships of NGOs)” through the project: “ČES: Development of Evaluations - Evaluation in Development”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The project aims to strengthen and utilize the capacities of Czech Evaluation Society (ČES) members and partners and other interested evaluation groups. Capacity building is via trainings and meetings with evaluators, donors, and others who are interested in the field of evaluation. This project supports the development of an evaluation culture in the Czech Republic. It is to enhance the capacities of these target groups to evaluate – and understand the evaluation of- foreign development cooperation and other development interventions, including European Social and Investment Funds. This involved five activities

  • Having a conference on “Development of Evaluations - Evaluation in Development”
  • Preparing a methodology for how to commission evaluations,
  • Providing educational courses,
  • Organizing evaluation meetings on Evalcafé themes, and
  • ČES website development.

The project contributed to an increasing interest in evaluations and expertise develop by both those contracting and those performing evaluations

Term: 1. 1. 2018 - 31. 12. 2018

Implementer: Czech Evaluation Society, z.s.

Total amount: CZK 272 000 (25% co-financing), equivalent to $12,132 (22.42 exchange rate) or €10,567 (25.74 exchange rate)