February 25, 2025
Ottawa Conference and Event Centre
We are excited to announce that the next Annual Learning Event (ALE) will be held on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre.
This year’s ALE Theme is Nurturing Growth for Sustainable Evaluation. This event is designed to bring together evaluators of all experience levels – from students to seasoned professionals – in a shared space of learning, collaboration, and growth. Inspired by the interconnectedness of a forest, where diverse elements support one another in a thriving evaluation ecosystem, we aim to create a conference environment where our network can flourish together.
Over the course of the day, you will explore engaging conversations and exciting insights from the following streams:
Evaluation Management and Planning: Planting the Seeds of Change
This stream focuses on the strategies and frameworks that underpin effective evaluations. We will include sessions on project management, stakeholder engagement, scoping, and ethical considerations that shape the foundation of meaningful evaluation work. Presenters will share insights and case studies on building strong evaluation plans, managing complex projects, and aligning evaluations with broader organizational or community goals.
Evaluation Implementation: Nurturing Growth through Innovation
At the heart of evaluation lies the practice itself. This stream will explore the methodologies, tools, and practices of conducting evaluations. Whether it’s the use of innovative data collection techniques, participatory approaches, or adapting methods to diverse contexts, these presentations will showcase the art and science of bringing evaluations to life.
Evaluation Reporting and Close-out: Harvesting Insights for Future Growth
The culmination of any evaluation is the sharing of findings and the transition to actionable insights. This stream is dedicated to the effective communication of results, from reporting formats and storytelling to knowledge mobilization and lessons learned. Speakers will explore creative ways to present data, facilitate evidence use, and close the loop with external partners.
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!
The 2024 ALE Theme is Integrate. Facilitate. Elevate: Skills for Now and the Future. From integrating lenses into your evaluation practice to providing effective leadership all while ensuring your skills stay sharp in this rapidly changing environment. Over the course of the day, you’ll explore engaging conversations and exciting insights from the following streams:
INTEGRATE
Over the course of the last few years we have learned about the importance of gender based analysis, diversity, equity, inclusion, active reconciliation, accessibility, and climate change. How can we do better at incorporating these lenses into our work?
FACILITATE
Communication and leadership are critical skills for evaluators. An effective evaluator engages diverse voices, obtains buy-in, scopes a project that balances everyone’s needs and provides a value-add product that is digestible and makes an impact.
ELEVATE
Explore and incorporate the latest trends and promising practices into your methodologies along with the cutting-edge skills needed to succeed in the evaluation field. Learn how to enhance your evaluation products in today’s rapidly changing environment.
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!
Your 2023 ALE Organizing Committee
ANNUAL LEARNING EVENT 2023
This ALE will focus on what makes us evaluators by understanding more theoretical foundations of evaluation (who we are), by applying more technical skills (what we do), and why it matters.
2019 ANNUAL LEARNING EVENT
Download Agenda Download the Full ProgramInclusion and Diversity in Evaluation
The 2019 CES-NCC Annual Learning Event (ALE), the local conference for evaluators in the area, will be held on Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre (at the Hampton Inn).
This year’s event focuses on inclusion and diversity, as they apply to evaluation in a wide variety of different ways: how evaluation processes can be inclusive of a broad range of stakeholders; how diversity and inclusion can be measured; how a wide variety of organizations can access evaluation processes; and diversity in the field of evaluation.
The day will feature a keynote address by Dr. Jennifer Greene (Professor Emerita, University of Illinois), as well as three streams of breakout sessions: Inclusive Evaluation; Measuring Equity and Diversity; and Inclusion in Action. Finally, the day will close with a panel of federal government evaluators discussing how their organizations have implemented inclusion and diversity considerations in their evaluations, with particular focus on Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+). This is a fantastic opportunity to develop new competencies and connect, learn and share with peers.
In addition, a half-day workshop will be presented on February 25th by Dr. Greene to complement the offerings of the ALE.
Selected Strategies for Integrative Mixed Methods Data Analysis
Presentations from previous ALEs are available through the CES Grey Literature (available to CES members only).