The conference took place at a time when, at the national level, the evaluation community’s attention was focused on developments and initiatives related to the evaluation of public policies.

HES advocates that public policies based on objective evaluation findings can significantly contribute to national reform and development efforts. Evaluation can improve the effective utilisation of the country’s resources, serve as additional accountability assurance for taxpayers regarding resource use, and generate valuable knowledge about implemented policies and their outcomes.

However, evaluation is not always a fundamental part of policy design and governance. It has often been negatively perceived by the public, and institutional arrangements for conducting evaluations within the executive and legislative branches remain limited.

In a well-established institutional evaluation system, this function would be a fundamental component of the life cycle of public policies and programs. Evaluations would be conducted methodically, reliably, and systematically, with results utilised by policymakers and decision-makers and made publicly available to citizens. Successfully advancing strategic evaluation requires both technical and organisational changes as well as cultural shifts within public administration. It also necessitates legislative developments specific to evaluation and adequate horizontal integration of evaluation processes in public finance regulations and national policy planning frameworks.

The conference featured high-level officials from central government, public servants, representatives of evaluation units, ministries, regional and local government bodies, Greek evaluators, academics, and researchers as speakers and guests.

At the end of the conference, the HES Annual Awards for 2019 were announced in the categories:

  • Best Applied Integrated Evaluation Methodology
  • Optimal Utilisation of Proposed Evaluation Conclusions

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

The conference program was structured into three sessions:

1. Evaluation as a Governance Tool: Prospects for Reforms
2. Experience from Existing Practices, Mechanisms, and Evaluation Studies
3. Best Practices in Evaluation

PROGRAM OF THE 3rd ANNUAL HES CONFERENCE

PRESENTATIONS

OPENING – WELCOME ADDRESS

KEYNOTE SPEECH

SESSION 1 – EVALUATION AS A GOVERNANCE TOOL: PROSPECTS FOR REFORMS

SESSION 2 – EXPERIENCE FROM EXISTING PRACTICES, MECHANISMS, AND EVALUATION STUDIES

SESSION 3 – BEST PRACTICES IN EVALUATION

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NAVIGATION