GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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Introduction
The National Conference on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning 2022 aims to bring together key stakeholders in the M&E ecosystem to deliberate issues and strategies for addressing challenges as they evolve at the national and sub-national level using best-in-class practices and technologies from India and globally.
Theme
Monitoring & Evaluation for Sustainable Development through Cooperative Federalism
Building institutional and resource capabilities for M&E at the sub-national level
Making evaluations inclusive & sensitive to marginalized and vulnerable populations
Building future ready systems through M&E
Contextualizing Evaluation Policy
Data governance, technology and innovation for Monitoring & Evaluation
Developing resilient M&E approaches
Our
Speakers
Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran
Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India
Sudhanshu Pandey
Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution
Vini Mahajan
Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India
Adil Zainulbhai
Chairman, Capacity Building Commission
Dr. Sekhar Bonu
Director General, Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, NITI Aayog
Kunal Kumar
Joint Secretary and Mission Director- Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India
Prof. Ian Goldman
Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, Global Evaluation Initiative-CLEAR Anglophone Africa
Shailendra Dwivedi
Joint Secretary, DMEO, NITI aayog
Antony Cyriac
Deputy Director General, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Ashish Desai
Director, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Dr. Emmanuel Jimenez
Director General, Independent Evaluation, Asian Development Bank
Alok Mishra
Additional Director General (Media & Communication) Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India
Nadia Rasheed
Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP India
Paramjyoti Chattopadhyay
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Khalil Bitar
Independent Evaluator & M&E Specialist and Co-founder and former Chair, EvalYouth Global Network
Rudra Sen Sarma
Professor, IIM-Kozhikode
Santosh K Mishra
CEO, Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency
Dr. Chaya Degaonkar
Additional Chief Evaluation Officer, Karnataka Evaluation Authority
Dr. Sanjeev Sridharan
Country Lead, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Marie-Aude Even
Senior Technical Specialist, IFAD India
Mihir Bhatt
Director, AIDMI Ahmedabad
Pradnya Paithankar
SDG, Climate Change, DRR and SSTC Manager, World Food Programme India
Prof. Srijit Mishra
Faculty, IGIDR (Former Director, NCDS
Dr. Manoj Pant
Additional Director, Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES) and Additional CEO of Centre for Public Policy and Good Governance, Uttarakhand
Dr. Vasantha Kumar
Executive Director- Uttar Pradesh Technical Support Unit, University of Manitoba
Dr. Poornima Dore
Director - Analytics, Insights & Impact, TATA Trusts
Rama Kamaraju
Senior Consultant (Aspirational Districts Programme), NITI Aayog
Dr. Girija Vaidyanathan
Chief Secretary (Retd.), Government of Tamil Nadu
Rahul Kapoor
Director, SMART Cities Mission, Mo Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India
Viraj Tyagi
CEO, eGov Foundation
Dr. Ananya Samajdar
Head of Research, GRAAM
Dr. Basavaraju R
Executive Director, GRAAM
Dr.Yogesh Kumar
Executive Director, Samarthan- Centre for Development Support
Linda Raftree
Independent Consultant
Kancha Dyuti Maiti
Former Planning, M&E specialist in UNICEF
Dr.Renu Singh
Country Director, Young Lives India
Ritu B Nanda
MEL & Community Processes Consultant (India), Global Fund for Children, Washington
Asela Kalugampitiya
President, APEA
Sanjay Kumar
Core Group Member, Evaluation Community of India (ECOI)
Prashant Kumar Mittal
Deputy Director General, NIC and Managing Director, NICSI
Rakesh Ranjan
Senior Consultant, NITI Aayog
Maaike Bijker
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Research), UNICEF India
Yasumasa Kimura
Deputy Representative, UNICEF India
Shilpa Nag C T
Commissioner of Rural Development and Director of the E-Governance, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Departments
Urvashi Prasad
Director, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Shivendra Kumar Srivastava
Senior Scientist, NIAP-ICAR
Dr (Flt Lt) MA Balasubramanya
Advisor, Community Processes & Comprehensive Primary Health Care, NHSRC, MoHFW, GoI
Dr. Abinash Dash
Joint Director, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Event
Collaborators
Event
Schedule
Conference Inaugural
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Welcome: Director General, DMEO
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Hon'ble Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for maximizing public expenditure efficiency and fostering cooperative federalism
Moderator: Dr Sekhar Bonu, DG, DMEO
Panel:
Ms Vini Mahajan, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation, Government of India
Mr V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India
Mr Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, Capacity Building Commission
Mr Emmanuel Jimenez, Director General, Independent Evaluation, Asian Development Bank
11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Localisation of outcome-monitoring
Moderator: Mr. Kanchan Dyuti Maiti, Former Planning, M&E specialist in UNICEF
Panel:
Mr. Kunal Kumar, Mission Director, SMART Cities, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Govt. of India
Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, Sr. Consultant (Security Cell/ MOD/MHA/ Aspirational Districts), NITI Aayog
Dr. Manoj Pant, ACEO, Centre for Policy Research and Good Governance, Uttrakhand
Ms. Nadia Rasheed, Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP India
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Creating robust data systems and processes to enable data use for decentralised decision making
Moderator: Dr. Poornima Dore, Director - Analytics, Insights & Impact, TATA Trusts
Panel:
Dr. Girija Vaidyanathan, Chief Secretary (Retd), Govt of Tamil Nadu
Mr. Rahul Kapoor, Director, SMART Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Govt. of India
Mr. Rama Kamaraju, Sr. Consultant (Aspirational Districts Programme), NITI Aayog
Mr. Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Role of data, technology and innovation for more inclusive M&E practices
Moderator: Mr. Ashish Desai, Director, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Panel:
Dr. Rudra Sensarma, Professor of Economics, IIM Kozhikode
Ms. Linda Raftree, Independent Consultant, Linda Raftree LLC, MERL Tech, Technology Salon
Mr. Santosh Misra, Former Commissioner e-Governance and Commissioner Transport & State Transport Authority, Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency
Mr. Prashant Kumar Mittal, Deputy Director General, NIC and Managing Director, NICSI
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Taking a participatory and citizen-centric approach to Monitoring & Evaluation
Moderator: Dr. Basavaraju R, Executive Director, GRAAM
Panel:
Dr. Yogesh Kumar, Executive Director, Samarthan
Ms. Shilpa Nag C T, Commissioner, Rural Development (MGNREGS), Govt. of Karnataka
Dr. Ananya Samajdar, Head of Research, GRAAM
Dr (Flt Lt) MA Balasubramanya, Advisor, Community Processes & Comprehensive Primary Health Care, NHSRC, MoHFW, GoI
Second Day Opening Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Strengthening Evaluation Capacities in States
Moderator:Mr. Paramjyoti Chattopadhyay, M&E Specialist, DMEO
Panel:
Dr. Vasantha Kumar, Executive Director, Uttar Pradesh Technical Support Unit
Dr. Chaya Degaonkar, ACEO, Karnataka Evaluation Authority, Planning Dept., Govt. of Karnataka
Dr. Sanjeev Sridharan, Country Lead, BMGF India
Mr. Antony Cyriac, Deputy Director General, DMEO, NITI Aayog
11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Designing Inclusive Evaluations to be responsive to outcomes for children, adolescents and women
Chair: Mr. Yasumasa Kimura, Deputy Representative, UNICEF India
Moderator: Ms. Maaike Bijker, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Research), UNICEF India
Panel:
Ms. Ritu B Nanda, MEL & Community Processes Consultant (India), Global Fund for Children, Washington
Dr. Renu Singh, Country Director, Young Lives India
Mr. Khalil Bitar, Independent Evaluator & M&E Specialist and Co-founder and former Chair, EvalYouth Global Network
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Evidence needs for sustainable food systems and livelihoods
Moderator: Ms. Pradnya Paithankar, SDG, Climate Change, DRR and SSTC Manager, WFP India
Panel:
Ms. Marie-Aude Even, Senior Technical Specialist, IFAD India
Prof. Srijit Mishra, Faculty, IGIDR
Mr. Mihir Bhatt, Director, AIDMI Ahmedabad
Dr. Shivendra Srivastava, Senior Scientist, NIAP-ICAR
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Pathways for Institutionalising Evaluation at National Level
Moderator: Ms. Urvashi Prasad, Director, DMEO, NITI Aayog
Panel:
Dr. Ian Goldman, Advisor: Evaluation and Evidence Systems, Global Evaluation Initiative, CLEAR Anglophone Africa
Mr. Asela Kalugampitiya, President, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA)
Mr. Alok Mishra, Additional Director General (Media & Communication), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India
Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Core Group Member, Evaluation Community of India (ECOI)
Closing Ceremony
05:00 PM - 06:15 PM
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India
Anchor: Dr. Abinash Dash, Joint Director, DMEO
Rapporteur presentations:
1. Mr. Shailendra Dwivedi, Joint Secretary, DMEO
2. Mr. Antony Cyriac, Deputy Director-General, DMEO
Closing Remarks: Director-General, DMEO