News & Event

Day 1 Date: 20 April, 2010, Tuesday   
Time: 9:00-17:30
Venue: Open Society Forum (Soros foundation), near Silk Road Building, Jamiyan Gun Street - 5/1, Sukhbaatar district, Ulaanbaatar-48, Mongolia

Day 2 Date: 21 April, 2010, Wednesday
Time: 9:00-17:00
Venue: Datacom Meeting room, National Information Technology Park bldg, Suite 110, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 210646, Tel: +(976)-11-329688

Trainer:  Dr. Sonal Zaveri, DECI consultant, IDRC
Description, plan and objectives
The workshop plans to provide an overview to participants about Utilization Focused Evaluation. This approach pioneered by Michael Patton seeks to ensure that evaluations are put to good use – in other words, serve a purpose or create an impact or contribute to further programming and policy. UFE is important to understand as many evaluations are carried out merely as a routine completion of projects. In this way, we lose a valuable opportunity to learn from what we do. Michael Patton has outlined various steps in the UFE that enable program managers, evaluators, administrators, donors and other interested parties to design and use evaluations that make a difference in what we do.
By the end of the workshop, participants will:

a.    Understand UFE Steps
b.    Analyze how UFE is different from conventional evaluations
c.    Be able to identify who the user is and why use is important
d.     Learn about the roles of the evaluator and users
e.    Understand the different steps of the UFE and how they influence the evaluation design
f.    Learn how to plan for the UFE  
g.    Understand criteria of assessing an UFE evaluation

Day 2  Date: 21 April, 2010, Wednesday
One day intensive workshop with subproject entitled Online psychological service for health professionals, selected for UFE evaluation, April 21st, 2010. Key users will be involved in this workshop.

Objectives of the workshop on 21 April 2010
By the end of the one day workshop:

• Key users understand their role and contribution
• Key uses are identified
• Key questions are identified
• Evaluation focus is determined
• Evaluation design and data collection methods are identified
• Time and work plan prepared with tentative budget

Revpresentation day one
Revpresentation day two