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Welcome cocktail reception, Tuesday 18 September 6:00–8:00pm, open to all delegates! Venue: Penny Royal

Connie Donato-Hunt

Pacific Community (SPC)
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Adviser
Noumea, New Caledonia

Monitoring and evaluation specialist working in the Pacific. I have extensive experience in participatory approaches to evaluation and stakeholder engagement. I am committed to developing M&E frameworks that are sustainable, meaningful and relevant. I am particularly keen to talk to anyone who is interested in M&E in the development sector.

9:00am AEST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Michael Quinn Patton "Getting Real about Transformational Change: The Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Aunty Nola Hooper • Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

11:00am AEST

The STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project: Next "steps" in the journey. Chancellor 4Liz Smith • Margaret Cargo • Sharon Clarke • Lynley Cvitanovic • Jenni Judd • Gill Potaka-Osborne • Lisa Warner

12:00pm AEST

Transforming research organisations via monitoring, evaluation and learning: how can we evaluate our own work? Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Larelle McMillan • Helen Percy • Toni White

1:30pm AEST

The Promise Design-thinking and Implementation Science holds for Social Impact Evaluation: Views from Practitioners and Evaluators Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Rachel Aston • Ruth Aston • Robbie Francis • Timoci O’Connor

2:00pm AEST

Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters. Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Nolan Stephenson

2:30pm AEST

Maximising the Value Add of a Strategic Evaluation Function in an International Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Peta Leeman • Sarah Leslie

3:30pm AEST

Buka Hatene - an innovative model promoting adaptive management for improved aid effectiveness in Timor-Leste Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Louise Maher

4:00pm AEST

Between the known and the unknown: exploring innovation in evidence-based programs Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Alexandra Ellinson

8:00am AEST

Plenary two: Penny Hagen "Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Penny Hagen

9:30am AEST

Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability. Chancellor 5Michael Shapland • Tracey McMartin

11:00am AEST

Freaking Super Sweet Webinars: learning new tricks from young guns (aka Webinars 101: AES webinar working group reports back) Conference centreFrances McMurtrie • Kara Scally-Irvine • Kahiwa Sebire • Liz Smith When an evaluator benefits: the challenges of managing values and power in evaluating with a lived experience Chancellor 6Kelly Tapley • Joanna Farmer

12:00pm AEST

Evaluation capability building: Transforming evaluation culture or spinning wheels? Chancellor 4Claire Grealy • Martin Hall • Vanessa Hood • Megan Kerr • Delyth Lloyd • Kate Nichols • Amanda Reeves • Roberta Thorburn • Eleanor Williams

2:00pm AEST

Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Kate McKegg • Nan Wehipeihana

9:00am AEST

Taking an intersectional approach to evaluation and monitoring: moving from theory to practice Chancellor 5Jenne Roberts • Loren Days • Sarah Kearney

10:00am AEST

Transforming evaluation to better address complexity Conference centreMatt Healey • Julie Elliott

11:00am AEST

"Stories for Purpose" – transforming the use of documentary film, participatory media and participatory forums in Monitoring and Evaluation, in order to create evidence based visual reports Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Margaret Howard • Susan Rooney-Harding

12:00pm AEST

Inclusive Systemic Evaluation: Gender equality, Environments, Marginalised voices for Social justice (ISE4GEMS) - A New UN Women Approach for the SDG Era Conference centreJoanna Farmer • Kathryn Meldrum • Jill Thomas

1:30pm AEST

Strengthening the professionalisation of evaluation in Australia, workshop 2 Chancellor 5Amy Gullickson • Sue Leahy • Delyth Lloyd

2:30pm AEST

Closing plenary: It’s the AES18 Great Debate and it’s going to be huge! Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Penny Hagen • Kate McKegg • Karol Olejniczak • Gill Westhorp