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Samuel KOUAKOU

2IEval

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Contributing VOPE Membership
Acronym of VOPE
2IEval
Primary Contact's Full Name
Samuel KOUAKOU
1. Full name of VOPE
Ivorian Initiative for Evaluation
2. Acronym of VOPE
2IEval
3. Primary contact's name
Samuel KOUAKOU
4. Primary contact's email
samuel.kouakou@2ieval.org
5. 2nd contact's name
Pierre N'DRI
6. 2nd contact's email
pierre.ndri@2ieval.org
7. 3rd contact's name
Joshua NDUBUISI
8. 3rd contact's email
ndujosh@gmail.com
 

Organizational Identification

10. Website
www.2ieval.org
11. Address of organization (VOPE)
09 BP 488 Abidjan 09
Côte d'Ivoire
12. Year organization (VOPE) founded
2014
13. Current status
2. Formal association/society (charter and bylaws adopted)
14. VOPE legally recognized by government?
3. Yes
15. Geographic scope
National
17. Country
Côte d'Ivoire
19. Sectoral/Subject focus
Professionalisation of Evaluation
 

Membership

20. Number of dues-paying official membership
67
21. Non dues-paying membership
89
22. Total current number of members
244
23. Total on mailing list
324
24. What is the criteria for an individual or entity to join your VOPE?
Open membership
26. Number of VOPE members working in Governmental agencies
76
27. Number of VOPE members working in NGOs/CSOs
28
28. Number of VOPE members working in Academia
43
29, Number of VOPE members working in Private Sector
37
30. Number of VOPE membership that are women
26
31. Number of new evaluators
34
 

Leadership

32. Name of president/chairperson
Samuel KOUAKOU
33. Members in active leadership positions
12
34. How active would judge your VOPE's leadership to be?
5. Very active - creatively organizing frequent events to serve our members
35. Paid secretariat staff
No
36. Means of communication
  • 1. email listserv
  • 2. social media
  • 4. website
  • 6. annual report
  • 7. other
37. Number of newsletters
None
38. When was the last annual report sent to members?
29 Sep 2018
39. VOPE Institutional Capacity Toolkit
2. Yes, but only a little
 

VOPE Activities and Affiliations

40. Purpose and mission
The "Ivorian Initiative Evaluation (2IEval, is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that aims to create a framework for reflection, sharing, exchange and promotion of evaluation as well as management, as a tool for improving Project, Program and Policy Performance through Managing for Development Results
41. Recent Activities
- Participation in the meeting with the Ministry of Planning and development for the development of the Law on Evaluation practice in côte d'Ivoire (30 January 2020)

- Participation in the formulation of the Country programme of UNICEF-Côte d'Ivoire (January 2020)

- EvalPartners P2P programme with SenEval (Senegal) and STEval-EE (Togo) 2018-2019)

- EvalPrtners P2P programme with SenEval (Senegal) and SQEP (Canada) (2016-2017)

- Evaluation lessons sharing with UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire (31 January)

- Participation in the 9th AfrEA international conference in Côte d'Ivoire (2019)

- Supporting APNODE to organize the 1st Ivorian Parliamentarian Forum on the theme “Evaluations for Human Rights, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” (2019)

- Participation in the African Development Bank, Evaluation week (2018)
- Organisation of the Eval-Café 2018 with the support of IDEV (AfDB)

- Participation in the Glocal Evaluation week of CLEAR initiative (2019)

- workshop on Evaluation with doctarate student of the University of Bouaké (Côte d'Ivoire) (2017)

- Training of Emerging Evaluator at the University of Cocody (2017)

- Selection of 2IEval Experts for the Mid-Term Evaluation of the Presidential Program " Compendium of Women Skills of Côte d'Ivoire" (August 2016);

- Meeting with a team member of USAID project "West Africa Evidence for Development Project" (August 2016);

- Organisation of the Evaluation Excellence Awards "GOLDEN EVALUATION" ceremony (3th August 2016);

- Organisation of the workshop to strengthen capacities of Young Emerging Evaluators with the support of UNDP and the Ministry of YOUTH (28th June to 1st July 2016);

- Participation in a workshop organized by the African Women Association for Research and Development (AFARD)" (June 2016);

- Nomination of 2IEval as member of the national Team in charge of the Monitoring and Evaluation of the "Action research on the measurement of learning outcomes of literacy programmes’ participants (RAMAA)" project, initiated by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Ministry of Education (June 2016);

- Launch of the second édition of the Evaluation Excellence Awards "GOLDEN EVALUATION" contest (March 2016);

- Participation in EvalPartners 2nd Global Forum in Kathmandu, Nepal, From 23-25 November 2015;

- Organisation of the First Edition of the Evaluation Excellence Awards "GOLDEN EVALUATION" Ceremony (3th August 2015);

- Launch of the first édition of the Evaluation Excellence Awards "GOLDEN EVALUATION" contest (February 2015);

- launch of the Ivorian Evaluation Portal (www.2ieval.org) (February 2015);

- Signing partnerships with social and economic research institutions (March 2014);

- Participation in Impact studies validation workshop;
- Participation in training on impact évaluation;
- participation in baseline study validation.
42. Standards / guidelines
2. Not yet (but we're working on it)
44. Methods for strenghening skills of members
  • 1. organizing workshops led by local experts
  • 3. designing and developing e-learning programs
  • 4. administering mentoring programs
  • 5. other
 

VOPE Affiliations

45. VOPE membership in regional or international network
Yes
46. Network name(s)
AfrEA, IDEAS, IOCOM, IOCE, EvalYouth, EvalGender+, Evaluating SDGs, EES Emerging Evaluators Networks, Global Parliamentarian Forum for Evaluation (GPFE), RFE-ee (Emerging Evaluators of RFE)
47. 47.Has your VOPE participated in a P2P or Innovation Challenge grant-supported project?
2. Yes
48. If so, what year?
2016 and 2018
49. With what partners?
2016 with SQEP (Canada) and SenEval (Senegal)

2018 with SenEval (Senegal) and STEval-EE (Togo)
 

Evaluation Advocacy

50. Has your VOPE influenced government policies & systems?
Yes, in a significant way
51. Does your government have a National Evaluation Policy?
Coming - NEP in process of being developed and approved
52. Has your VOPE partnered with Parliamentarians?
  • Yes, a little.
53. Have you used the EvalPartners Advocacy Toolkit?
  • Yes, but in a minor way.
 

EvalAgenda2020

54. Has your VOPE made a commitment to address elements of the Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020?
  • Yes
 

EvalPartners Networks

55. EVALSDGs
To celebrate 2015, the International Year of Evaluation, a major event, the Ivorian Initiative for Evaluation (2IEval) in Collaboration with the CAPEC (Political and Economic Analysis Unit) of CIRES (Ivorian Economic and Social Research Centre) has launched the first edition of the Ivorian Golden Award for Excellence in Evaluation.
That is now institutionalised.

Main liaison person is Samuel KOUAKOU (samuel.kouakou@2ieval.org)

Second liaison person is Mr Pierre N'DRI,
(pierre.ndri@2ieval.org)

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