2010 EEN Forum
History
The fifth EEN Forum was co-hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), the George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC on June 7 and 8, 2010. More than 250 participants were in attendance from federal government agencies, foundations, private evaluation firms, academia, non-profits and other organizations.
Themes
The theme of the fifth EEN Forum was ”Quality in an Era of Results-Based Performance.” Over two days participants discussed the role that environmental evaluation plays in their organizations including successes, pitfalls and recommendations for addressing results-based performance.
Forum Documents
Detailed Agenda – EEN 2010 Forum
2010 EEN Forum Feedback Memo • PDF
2-Page Summary of Speakers and Topics – EEN 2010 Forum • PDF
Full 2010 Conference Packet
(Including short and long agendas, session descriptions, and speaker and attendee bios.)
Keynote Presentations
06/08/2010 – Navigating Evaluative Complexity in the Age of Obama
Presenter: Eleanor Chelimsky (U.S. GAO, Former Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and Methodology)
06/08/2010 – Chelimsky Checklist
In a presentation at the Environmental Evaluators Network, Eleanor Chelimsky discussed a checklist used by the General Accountability Office during her tenure while planning evaluations. The attached checklist was generated from that presentation (Chelimsky, 2010).
Plenary Sessions
06/07/2010 – Building Results Based Management Practice in the Biodiversity Conservation Community: Implementer and Funder Perspectives
• Results Based Management in the Biodiversity Focal Area at the GEF
• Driving Adoption of RBM in the Biodiversity Conservation Community
• Building Results Based Management Practice – Session Notes
Presenters: Patrick Grasso (Evaluation and Management Consultant), Mark Zimsky (Global Environment Facility), Elizabeth O’Neill (World Wildlife Fund International)
Concurrent Sessions
06/07/2010 – Response to Ecosystem Change – Case Examples of Measuring Species Recovery and Governance Response to Ecosystem Change • Session Notes
Presenters: Glenn Page (SustainaMetrix), H. Bruce Rinker (North Cross School)
06/07/2010 – Data Visualization and Evaluation • Session Notes
Presenters: Juan Paulo Ramirez (University of Nebraska), Richard Gelb (King County Government, State of Washington)
06/07/2010 – Communities as Engines of Change: Achieving Quality in Environmental Policy Evaluations
• Coalitions as Engines of Change
• Communities as Engines of Change
• Communities as Engines of Change – Session Notes
Presenters: Mary Kreger (University of California-San Francisco), Johanna Morariu (Innovation Network), Rosemarie Moreken (Inter-American Foundation), Andre Barros (Environmental Defense Network Cabo de Santo Agostinho)
06/07/2010 – Evaluating Coalition and Advocacy Capacity
• A Framework for Understanding and Assessing Advocacy Capacity
• Measuring Results and Assessing Capacity
• Evaluating Coalition and Advocacy Capacity – Session Notes
Presenters: PeiYao Chen (TCC Group), Rhonda Schlangen (Evaluation Consultant)
06/07/2010 – Evaluative Thinking from the Beginning
• Evaluative Thinking from the Beginning
• Real-Time Evaluation
• Evaluative Thinking from the Beginning – Session Notes
Presenters: Chuck Herrick and Diana Lane, Stratus Consulting, Inc.; Terell Lasane, EPA; Tracy Dyke Redmond, Industrial Economics, Inc.
06/07/2010 – Social Network Analysis and Evaluation • Session Notes
Presenters: Ken Vance-Borland (The Conservation Planning Institute), Chris Ellis (NOAA), Ken Genskow (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
06/07/2010 – From Science to Service: Evaluating Quality and Impact of Science Translation for Decision-Makers
• Evaluating the Quality and Impact of Science Translation for Decision-makers
• Research Funding Program Implementation and Impact Evaluation
• From Science to Service – Session Notes
Presenters: Kalle Matso (University of New Hampshire), Chad English (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea), Holly Hartmann (University of Arizona)
06/07/2010 – Multi-Method Evaluation: Tools that Work and Ones that Don’t
• A Multi-Method Evaluation Plan for Determining Conference Effectiveness
• Evaluating Environmental Legislation in Canada
• Multi-Method Evaluation – Session Notes
Presenters: Russ Winn (New Mexico State University), Alison Kerry (Environmental and Management Consulting), Michael Gullo (Stratos)
06/07/2010 – Evaluation and Conservation Planning • Session Notes
Presenters: Madeleine Bottrill (University of Queensland, Australia), Alejandro Ortega-Argueta (Instituto de Ecologia, A.C., Mexico)
06/07/2010 – Increasing the Capacity of Results-Based Management for Conservation Efforts
• Measuring the Effectiveness of State Wildlife Grants and Wildlife Action Plans
• Open Standards in Conservation Grantmaking
Presenters: Nick Salafsky (Foundation of Success), Mark Humpert (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)
06/08/2010 – Program Learning in Complex Systems: Improvement Through Modeling
• Organizational Learning through Modeling
• Modeling Dynamic Systems
• Program Learning in Complex Systems – Session Notes
Presenters: Jeff Wasbes (Research Works Inc.), Daniel Hayden (Rare Conservation)
06/08/2010 – Organizational Approaches to Measurement and Evaluation
• Organizational Approaches to Measurement and Evaluation
• EPA’s Organizational Approaches to Measurement and Evaluation
Presenters: Kerstin Åstrand (Swedish EPA), Jill Ferguson, Natalie Hanson and Jeffrey Harris (EPA)
06/08/2010 – Evaluation Policy in the Environmental Community
• The Impacts Code: Evaluation Policy for Voluntary Standards System
• Evaluation Policy in the Environmental Community: Case Finland
• Evaluation Policy in the Environmental Community – Session Notes
Presenters: Kristin Komives (ISEAL Alliance), Per Mickwitz (Finnish Environment Institute)
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