Wednesday, May 6, 2009

[EQ] Virtual event: Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems - 12th May 2009

Virtual Event: Meet the Author Series - Evaluation and Monitoring

The real world approach to impact evaluation

Organized by Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO and UNICEF CEE/CIS

When: Tuesday 12th May 2009, at 10 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.953FDA5344526E966FD944A7568E21

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, PAHO/WHO 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 Michael Bamberger, Former World Bank Evaluator

10:20 – 10:30am Jim Rugh, Former Head of Design, Monitoring and Evaluation for Accountability and Learning for CARE International

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 for 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.

Contact Information:

Rosina Salerno, Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services

Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO - Washington D.C. salernor@paho. org

Website: www.paho.org Tel 202 9473940

Attached PDF file with instructions for participants to connect Via Elluminate

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[EQ] The Geopolitics of Pandemics

The Geopolitics of Pandemics

May 4, 2009 | By George Friedman
STRATFOR Global intelligence

Available online at: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090504_geopolitics_pandemics

“………….Word began to flow out of Mexico the weekend before last of well over 150 deaths suspected to have been caused by a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu. Scientists who examined the flu announced that this was a new strain of Influenza A (H1N1) derived partly from swine flu, partly from human flu and partly from avian flu strains (although there is some question as to whether this remains true). The two bits of information released in succession created a global panic.

This panic had three elements. The first related to the global nature of this disease, given that flus spread easily and modern transportation flows mean containment is impossible. Second, there were concerns (including our own) that this flu would have a high mortality rate. And third, the panic centered on the mere fact that this disease was the flu.

News of this new strain triggered memories of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, sparking fears that the “Spanish flu” that struck at the end of World War I would be repeated. In addition, the scare over avian flu created a sense of foreboding about influenza — a sense that a catastrophic outbreak was imminent.

By midweek, the disease was being reported around the world. It became clear that the disease was spreading, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Phase 5 pandemic alert. A Phase 5 alert (the last step before a pandemic is actually, officially declared, a step that may be taken within the next couple of days) means that a global pandemic is imminent, and that the virus has proved capable of sustained human-to-human transmission and infecting geographically disparate populations. But this is not a measure of lethality, only communicability, and pandemics are not limited to the deadliest diseases….”

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