2008 EEN Forum
History
The National Zoo, Washington, D.C. June 12-13, 2008. Over 130 individuals attended the 2008 forum, representing diverse organizations such as Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, The Nature Conservancy, and King County, Washington.
Themes
The theme of the 2008 EEN Forum was “Working Strategically to Support Change and Effectiveness.” The featured speaker was Gary Henry, University of North Carolina.
Presentation strands included:
1. Attribution: Program evaluation as a means of assigning change in environmental condition to a particular program or policy.
2. Management: The connections between performance measurement and program evaluation that are key to accountable, adaptive, outcome-based management.
3. Communication: Distributing the results and learning from evaluations across stakeholders with different roles, responsibilities, values and perspectives.
Forum Documents
Detailed Agenda – EEN 2008 Forum
This is the EEN 2008 Forum – Detailed Agenda for the forum held June 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Presenters Biographies – 2008 EEN Forum
This is a complete list of participants and biographies for the 2008 Environmental Evaluators Forum.
Forum Resources
06/13/2008 – Implications of Climate Change for Evaluation
Author: Per Mickwitz
06/13/2008 – An Online Course to Build Evaluation Capacity
Presenter: Lynette Fleming
06/13/2008 – Evaluation of Environmental Conflict Resolution
Presenter: Susan Goodwin
06/13/2008 – Another Point of View: Monitoring & Evaluation from a Donor Perspective
Presenter: Cynthia Gill
06/13/2008 – Evaluating the Performance of Collaborative Environmental Governance
Presenter: Tomas M. Koontz
06/13/2008 – Environmental Evaluation in the Age of an Uncertain Climate
Presenter: Diane Lane
06/13/2008 – Evaluating Climate Change and Development
Presenter: Rob van den Berg
06/13/2008 – Evaluating Collaborative Environmental Programs
Presenter: Lou Nadeau
06/13/2008 – Evaluation’s Role in Public Management
Presenter: Michael Jacobson
06/13/2008 – If You Love Your Program, Change Your Organization
Presenter: Brett Jenks
06/13/2008 – Knowledge to action – protecting ocean life through marine science
Presenter: Angela Bednarek
06/13/2008 – My Environmental Education Evaluation Resource Assistant
Presenter: Michaela Zint
06/13/2008 – The Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program
Presenter: Devra G. Kleiman
06/12/2008 – Observations on Making Evaluations Effective
Presenter: Jared Hardner
06/12/2008 – Results Chains: A Tool for Measuring Effectiveness and Attributing Change to Conservation Programs
Presenter: Marcia Brown
06/12/2008 – Moving Toward a Scale Independent Approach to Monitoring Status and Trends in Biodiversity
Presenter: Elizabeth Kennedy
06/12/2008 – Applying Program Evaluation Methods to Natural Resource Policy
Presenter: David Butry
06/12/2008 – Data Credibility
Presenter: Andrew Pullin
06/12/2008 – Educational Evaluation as Adaptive Management
Presenter: Daniel T. Blumstein
06/12/2008 – Featured Speaker: Casual Attribution in Environmental Program Evaluation
Presenter: Gary Henry
06/12/2008 – Influential evaluation:Not as evident as it seems
Presenter: Hans Bruyninckx
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