[EQ] Virtual event: Monitoring and evaluation - Good practices in using DevInfo

 

Meet the Author Strengthening Country-Led M&E System Good practices in using DevInfo
Organized by UNICEF CEE/CIS, and  Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO When: Wednesday, April 15th, at 10 – 11 am Washington DC time Please check the local time in your own town: http://www.timeandd ate.com/worldclo ck/meeting. html Where: in front of your personal or work computer anywhere in the world or at: PAHO HQ Room 512 525 23Rd  St. NW Washington DC 20037 Link to participants – Via Internet through Elluminate: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1110&password=M.E6E71280AB931BE40FB1AFA0B493C1 Please connect a few minutes before 10am You must have a headset or speaker and microphone The event is free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments. This conference will enable the sharing of good practices and lessons learned. Global-level speakers will contribute with international perspectives. Agenda
10:00- 10:05am	Welcome  Rosina Salerno, WHO/PAHO Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services
10:05 – 10:10am	Introduction and key questions Marco Segone, Regional Chief, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF Regional office for CEE/CIS, and former IOCE Vice President
Presenters
10:10 – 10:20am	DevInfo 6.0. A demand-driven and user-friendly data dissemination system Kris Oswalt, President, CSF
10:20 – 10:30am	Good practices in using DevInfo in evidence-based policy making Nicolas Pron, Global DevInfo Administrator
10:30 – 10:55am	Q&A from Participants Moderator: Rosina Salerno WHO/PAHO Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services
10:55 – 11:00am	Closing remarks Marco Segone, Regional chief, monitoring and evaluation UNICEF Regional office CEE/CIS
Why? Monitoring and evaluation has a strategic role to play in informing policy-making processes. The aim is to improve relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of policy reforms. Why then is monitoring and evaluation not playing its role to its full potential? What are the factors, in addition to the evidence, influencing the policy-making process and outcome? How can the uptake of evidence in policy-making be increased?   Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems may enhance evidence-based policy-making by ensuring national monitoring and evaluation systems are owned and led by the concerned countries. This facilitates the availability of evidence relevant to country-specific data needs to monitor policy reforms and national development goals, whilst at the same time, ensuring technical rigour through monitoring and evaluation capacity development.    This conference is part of the program “Meet the Author” where selected authors of evaluation books will be available to respond to your questions. The program was planned together with UNICEF and includes the participation of two major Global Evaluation Networks: IDEAS and IOCE.   The first virtual meeting with the editor of the UNICEF book, “Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems” was held in February 2009, and drew an audience of 110 participants from all over the world. Building on the consensus for the initiative, PAHO, together with UNICEF, designed this program to enable meet the authors of evaluation books, sharing with them good practices and lessons learned on evaluation with a special attention to national and local M&E systems.
Contact Information: Rosina Salerno, Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO - Washington D.C. salernor@paho. org   Attached PDF file with instructions for participants  to connect Via Elluminate

 

 

 

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[EQ] Obesity Metaphors: How Beliefs about the Causes of Obesity Affect Support for Public Policy

Obesity Metaphors:
How Beliefs about the Causes of Obesity Affect Support for Public Policy

Colleen L. Barry, Victoria L. Brescoll, Kelly D. Brownell, and Mark Schlesinger
Yale University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, CT USA
The Milbank Quarterly, The Milbank Memorial Fund, Volume 87, Number 1, 2009

Available online at: http://www.milbank.org/quarterly/8701feat.html

Context: Relatively little is known about the factors shaping public attitudes toward obesity as a policy concern. This study examines whether individuals’ beliefs about the causes of obesity affect their support for policies aimed at stemming obesity rates. This article identifies a unique role of metaphor-based beliefs, as distinct from conventional political attitudes, in explaining support for obesity policies.

Methods: This article used the Yale Rudd Center Public Opinion on Obesity Survey, a nationally representative web sample surveyed from the Knowledge Networks panel in 2006/07 (N=1,009). The study examines how respondents’ demographic and health characteristics, political attitudes, and agreement with seven obesity metaphors affect support for sixteen policies to reduce obesity rates.

Findings: Including obesity metaphors in regression models helps explain public support for policies to curb obesity beyond levels attributable solely to demographic, health, and political characteristics. The metaphors that people use to understand rising obesity rates are strong predictors of support for public policy, and their influence varies across different types of policy interventions.

Conclusions: Over the last five years, the United States has begun to grapple with the implications of dramatically escalating rates of obesity. Individuals use metaphors to better understand increasing rates of obesity, and obesity metaphors are independent and powerful predictors of support for public policies to curb obesity. Metaphorical reasoning also offers a potential framework for using strategic issue framing to shift support for obesity policies.

 

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[EQ] Course: Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change

Training course on Measuring the Progress of Societies:
“Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change”

 

 

May 11th to 15th 2009, Ottawa (Canada)

 

Website: http://www.oecd.org/document/62/0,3343,en_40033426_40037426_42208190_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

The OECD Global Project in association with the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)

 

 

The course has been designed for individuals wanting to understand the progress of their societies and promote evidence-based debate and policy making.

 

Scope: Is life getting better? Are our societies making progress? How many of us have the evidence to answer these questions? The world is changing and there is a global need, in this ‘information age’, to better understand social change.

 

Over the past 10 years or so there has been an explosion of interest in producing measures of societal progress. Measures that go beyond GDP to represent a broader view of the ways in which societies are progressing and regressing. Measures which are based on the values of a society, not those of a single political party or an elite few. Such sets of progress measures can help governments focus in a more joined up way on what really matters: they can foster a more informed debate on where a society is, where it wants to go and—most importantly—the choices it must make in order to get there. By measuring progress we can foster progress.  The Canadian Index of Wellbeing is just one prominent example of work underway in Canada.

 

In particular, the course will cover:

 

• How to measure progress;

• What to measure: the specific dimensions of progress;

• How to communicate the measures to a broad public.

 

Website: http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Events/Upcoming/20090511-15StatisticsKnowledgePolicy.htm?Language=EN

 

 

 

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[EQ] Climate Change and Children: A Human security challenge

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHILDREN:
A human security challenge

 

Policy Review Paper

The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, 2009

 

Available online PDF [68p.] at: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/climate_change.pdf

 

“…..The aim of this paper is to present the evidence and analysis necessary to effectively influence advocacy, policy and programme development. The ultimate goal is to provide the opportunity for children and young people to develop to their full potential, both by ensuring that their communities and homes are more capable of withstanding the impacts of climate change and by providing support and encouragement for their participation and contributions to the collective global response. Consideration for the rights and capacities of children within and across all levels of emerging climate policy is, therefore, an imperative….”

 

1. Climate Change, Human Security and the World’s Children

1.1 Climate change and human security

1.2 Climate change in developing countries

      Climate change and the Millennium Development Goals

1.3 Why children?

1.4 Complexity and integration

Poverty, access to energy and sustainable development

The rural/urban divide

Age and gender

International and intergenerational justice

1.5 The road ahead

2. Impacts of Climate Change on Children

2.1 Existing vulnerabilities and environmental health risks

2.2 Key climate changes and their impacts

Rising sea levels and shrinking glaciers

Heavy precipitation, flooding and water security

Rising temperatures, droughts and desertification

Extreme weather events

Deforestation

Biodiversity

2.3 Implications for child health and well-being

Food security and undernutrition

Water security, diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases

Malaria and other vector-borne diseases

Death and illnesses from use of biomass fuels indoors

Impacts from the breakdown of economic and social structures

3. The Bases for Action: Rights, institutions and guiding principles

3.1 Human rights and the environment

3.2 Convention on the Rights of the Child

3.3 Climate change and the Millennium Development Goals

3.4 Agenda 21 and the Rio Conventions

3.5 Aarhus Convention

     Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

3.6 Partnerships with faith-based organizations

3.7 Partnerships with youth organizations

4. Adaptation and Mitigation: Complementary strategies

4.1 Mitigation and adaptation

4.2 Participatory community development

4.3 Environmental education

4.4 Child and youth participation

4.5 The Nairobi Work Programme

4.6 Frameworks for action

5. Implications and Conclusions for Policy and Practice

 

Annexes

A - Case Study: Southern Sudan

B - Case Study: Morocco

C - References to the environment in the Convention on the Rights of the Child

D - An example of local adaptation in Kenya

Bibliography...

 

 

 

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