GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Introduction
To bring together key stakeholders in the monitoring and evaluation ecosystem to dwell upon and discuss the need for a systematic and scientific monitoring and evaluation culture and share strategies, methodologies, innovations, experiments, challenges and relevant best practices adopted in India and across the world.
Themes
Institutionalizing M&E practices for sustainable impact
- Demand for evidence and translating results into action and impact
- Experience and best practices from institutionalizing outcome-based monitoring
- Data governance to improve the quality of evidence generated
- Building institutional and resource capabilities in Government for demand generation and implementation of M&E systems
- Innovate and alternative methodologies/approaches to Monitoring and Evaluation
- Emergant and cutting-edge technologies in the domain for Monitoring and Evaluation
- Adapting evaluative approaches to a post COVID world
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Schedule
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Event Password: ncmel2021