IEO organised a major global evaluation conference with the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) over three days from March 4-6, 2025, in Rome, Italy. The event was held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The topic of the conference was “Multi-Dimensional Evaluation for Influence & Transformation” to examine how evaluation can drive real-world transformational change in today’s complex global landscape.
Day 1 consisted of professional development workshops held at both FAO and the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with IEO co-hosting one session on, “Evaluation Ecosystems: Building Culturally Relevant and Context-Adapted Methodologies for Transformational Impact”.
The main conference then took place on days 2 and 3, and welcomed around 300 global delegates including senior government officials, policy and decision-makers, high-level officials and heads of evaluation offices from major multilateral development institutions, and representatives of academic and research institutions, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and more. The Director-General of FAO, Qu Dongyu and H.E Raniya Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation of Egypt, opened the event, and Professor Michael Kremer, winner of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, delivered the keynote speech. In total 35 sessions took place over 6 different thematic “strands”, including on areas with relevance to NDB, such as the “BRICS Panel – Evaluations for Sustainable Development: Insights from BRICS on Diverse Contexts and Shared Goals”.
The main objective of the event was to unite international development practitioners, policy and decision-makers, academics and researchers, and evaluators, with the aim to share experiences, propose innovative approaches and actions for promoting greater global prosperity and sustainable development.
See the conference website here