Dear colleagues,
For your information.
Best
Ada
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Subject: Upcoming events by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dear Colleagues
The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) recently evaluated the improvement of women’s and girls’ rights in Finland’s development policy and cooperation. The evaluation assessed the value, merit and shortcoming of Finland’s practices, programmes and policies in promoting women and girls’ rights through multilateral, multi-bilateral, bilateral and civil society cooperation between 2012 and 2017. The evaluation focused on learning from good practices that enables the MFA to develop gender programming approaches further to avoid any shortcomings in attainment of results as well as to enable follow up of the policy priority in the future.
Two events around this publication are being held in August:
The evaluation report will be published on Thursday 23rd August and will be made available on MFA’s web site: https://um.fi/kehitysyhteistyon-evaluointiraportit-laajat
For more information, please contact: Sanna Pulkkinen, Senior Evaluation Officer (sanna.p...@formin.fl)
Best wishes
UNEG Secretariat
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Subject: Gender and Evaluations: What Can we Learn? Publication of Evaluation and Panel Discussion 23.8.2018
Publication of Evaluation and Panel Discussion 23.8.2018
Gender and Evaluations: What Can we Learn?
Welcome to the joint evaluation publication and panel discussion organized by the Development Evaluation Unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Independent Evaluation Service UN Women. The event will be organized on Thursday 23 August 2018 at 8:30 - 13:45 in the House of Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11. The event will consist of two sessions.
In the morning the results of the Evaluation on Improvement of Women's and Girls' Rights in Finland's Development Policy and Cooperation will be published. The afternoon panel discussion will set the basis for a dialogue around the crucial role of gender responsive evaluation within the Sustainable Development Goals era and its follow-up and review processes within the framework of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF).
Registration to the event through the following link www.lyyti.in/genderandevaluations is required by Monday 13 August 2018 at 12.00. Please also remember to bring with you an ID for the Security check at House of Estates. All people will identify themselves in the check entry point and will get inside if they have registered beforehand.
The results of the evaluation will also be presented in webinar on Friday 24 August 2018 at 10:00 - 12:00 (Helsinki time). We will send a separate invitation for this webinar.
Some general information on the evaluation of development cooperation in the MFA can be found http://um.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=328977&nodeid=49326&contentlan=2&culture=en-US and other evaluation reports can be found http://um.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=372981&nodeid=49728&contentlan=2&culture=en-US.
Welcome!
Development Evaluation Unit
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Date:
Subject: Webinar: Evaluation on Improvement of Women’s and Girls' Rights in Finland's Development Policy and Cooperation 24.8.2018
Register now to webinar on Evaluation on Improvement of Women’s and Girls' Rights in Finland's Development Policy and Cooperation
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) evaluated the improvement of women’s and girls’ rights in Finland’s development policy and cooperation. The evaluation assessed the value, merit and shortcoming of Finland’s practices, programmes and policies in promoting women and girls’ rights through multilateral, multi-bilateral, bilateral and civil society cooperation between 2012 and 2017. The evaluation focused on learning from good practices that enables the MFA to develop gender programming approaches further to avoid any
shortcomings in attainment of results as well as to enable follow up of the policy priority in the future. The results of this evaluation will be presented in a webinar on 24.8.2018 from 10 – 11.30 Helsinki time.
The evaluation report will be published on Thursday 23rd August and will be made available on MFA’s web site https://um.fi/kehitysyhteistyon-evaluointiraportit-laajat).
Please register for webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1519003193066680067
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Programme:
10:00 - 10:10 Opening of the webinar, Pauliina Paananen and Sanna Pulkkinen, Development Evaluation Unit, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
10:10 - 10:40 Presentation of the results of meta-analysis, Kornelia Rassman, Team Leader of the evaluation, Pariticip/Indufor
10:40 - 11:20 Discussion, Q & A, webinar participants
11:20 - 11:30 Closing of the webinar, Pauliina Paananen and Sanna Pulkkinen
Welcome! Development Evaluation Unit
For more information, please contact:
Sanna Pulkkinen
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Sanna Pulkkinen
Senior Evaluation Officer
E-mail <mailto:sanna.p...@formin.fi> sanna.p...@formin.fi
Tel. +358 295 351346 / +358 50 321 2699