National Monitoring and Evaluation Conference 2021

Inaugural Session

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome Address: Dr Sekhar Bonu, Director General, DMEO
Inaugural Address: Mr Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog

Session 1 - Role of M&E in Institutionalizing evidence-based policy making

10:20 - 11:30

Moderator: Dr. Sekhar Bonu, Director General, DMEO, NITI Aayog

Panelists:

• Shri M. Hari Menon, Country Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Dr. Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research
• Shri Pravin Srivastava, Former Chief Statistician of India and Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation
• Mr. Gonzalo Hernández Licona, Director, Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network
• Shri Sunil Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj

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Session 2 - Monitoring Outcomes for realizing SDGs

11:45 - 13:00

Moderator: Shri Anand Trivedi, M&E Specialist, DMEO

Panelists:

• Shri Shyam S. Dubey, Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India
• Shri Sampath Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary, Programme Implementation & Evaluation Department, Govt. of Meghalaya
• Dr. Pinaki Chakraborty, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
• Ms. Shrayana Bhattacharya, Senior Economist, World Bank
• Mr. Ronald Abraham, Founding Partner, IDInsight

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Session 3 - Evidence when it matters most: Remote food security and nutrition monitoring solutions for improved results

14:00 - 15:15

Moderator: Mr. Eric Kenefick, Deputy Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP) India CO

Panelists:

• Shri Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India
• Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal, Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management, Government of India
• Mr. Nicolas Bidault, Senior Regional Programme Policy Officer, WFP Bangkok
• Ms. Yumiko Kanemitsu, Regional Evaluation Officer, WFP Bangkok

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Session 4 - Promoting evaluations in academic institutions

15:30 - 16:45

Moderator: Dr. Ashwini Chhatre, Associate Professor, Indian School of Business, Mohali

Panelists:

• Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Research Director, India Development Foundation and Dean, Indian School for Public Policy
• Dr. Arnab Mukherji, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
• Dr. B. Venkatesh Kumar, Former Professor & Chairperson at the Centre for Public Policy & Governance, Tata Institute for Social Sciences
• Dr. Anitha Govindaraj, Advisor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Bhopal
• Dr. Sanjeev Sridharan, Country Lead- Learning Systems & Systems Evaluation, BMGF

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Session 5 - Reaching scale: What does it take from evidence and implementation lens?

17:00 - 18:15

Moderator: Dr. Shagun Sabarwal, Director - Policy, Training, and Communication, CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia

Panelists:

• Shri Balamurugan D., Chief Executive Officer, Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (JEEViKA)
• Shri Debasish Ray Choudhuri, Director - THP (Targeting Hardcore Poor), Bandhan Konnagar
• Mr. Colin Andrews, Program Manager - Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice and Partnership for Economic Inclusion, World Bank
• Ms. Doris King, Associate Director, Programs, Co-Impact

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Session 6 - Building robust M&E systems: An Indian States perspective

10:00 - 11:30

Introduction: Dr Sekhar Bonu, Director General, DMEO

Moderator: Mr Ashutosh Jain, Deputy Director General, DMEO

Panelists:

• Karnataka
  • Dr. Shalini Rajneesh, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka
  • Dr. Chaya K Degaonkar, Chief Evaluation Officer, Karnataka Evaluation Authority, Government of Karnataka
• Tamil Nadu
  • Tmt. Jayashree Raghunandan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu
• Haryana
  • Shri TVSN Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance & Planning, Govt of Haryana
  • Shri Ravi Prakash Gupta, Director General, Swarna Jayanti Haryana Institute for Fiscal Management
• Uttar Pradesh
  • Shri Amod Kumar, Principal Secretary, Planning Department, Uttar Pradesh

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Session 7 - Leave no one behind: How M&E can help achieve more equitable results in the wake of COVID

11:45 - 13:00

Moderator: Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, Representative, UNICEF India Country Office

Panelists:

• Mr. Gonzalo Hernández Licona, Director, Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network
• Dr. Renu Singh, Country Director, Young Lives India
• Shri Nand Kumarum, IAS, Chief Executive Officer, Madhya Pradesh Agency for Information Technology (MAPIT)

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Session 8 - Emerging approaches and technologies for evidence generation

14:00 - 15:15

Moderator: Shri Venugopal Mothkoor, M&E Specialist, DMEO, NITI Aayog

Panelists:

• Shri Sriganesh Lokanathan, Data Innovation & Policy Lead, UN Pulse Lab
• Shri Sayak Khatua, Evaluation Specialist – Research Transparency, Reproducibility & Ethics (TRE) 3ie
• Shri Varad Pande, Partner, Omidyar Network India
• Shri Anand Trivedi, M&E Specialist, DMEO, NITI Aayog
• Ms. Poornima Dore - Head Data-driven Governance, TATA Trusts

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Session 9 - Strengthening pathways from evidence to action

15:30 - 16:45

Moderator: Ms. Marie Gaarder, Executive Director, 3ie

Panelists:

• Mr. Emmanuel Jimenez, Senior Research Fellow, 3ie
• Mr. S. Krishnan, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu
• Ms. Suneeta Krishnan, India Country Lead, MEL, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Mr. Samik Sundar Das, Senior Rural Development Specialist, World Bank
• Ms. Kirthi Rao, Evidence Impact Specialist, 3ie

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Session 10 - Professionalization of M&E to Enhance Institutional Capacity: Opportunities and Challenges

17:00 - 18:15

Moderator: Ms. Rashmi Agarwal, co-Founder, ECOI

Panelists:

• Mr. Marco Segone, Director, UNFPA Evaluation Office, New York City
• Mr. Asela Kalugampitiya, President, APEA, Colombo
• Ms. Ana Erika Loreza, Co-leader, EvalYouth Asia, Manila
• Mr. Alok Srivastava, Core Group Member, ECOI

Closing Remarks: Dr Sekhar Bonu, DG, DMEO

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