| Session Title: Stages of Evaluation Development in Kazakhstan: Methodology of State Programs Evaluation |
| Demonstration Session 374 to be held in El Capitan B on Thursday, Nov 3, 1:35 PM to 2:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Sergey Gulyayev, Decenta Public Foundation, sergey@decenta.org |
| Abstract: In late 1990s the first experiences of program evaluation took place. Reasons for that: international projects were implemented in Kazakhstan; foreign companies brought this tradition; specialists from Kazakhstan got experience of attending trainings and seminars on evaluation; first local evaluators as representatives of a profession appeared. Early 2000s - large projects financed by foreign investors and donors were evaluated, this was an obligatory condition set by the financing party. In 2002-2005 more and more discussions raised about necessity to evaluate the impact of the programs financed by the state. These discussions were initiated by the NGO sector. By 2006 there were examples of evaluation of the state budget programs. During 2007 - 2009 the professional community of evaluators from NGOs lobbied amendments into the national legislation about evaluation of the governmental programs. In 2010 the national legislation was amended and evaluation of the state programs efficiency, effectiveness and impact became obligatory. In 2011 it became legally possibly to evaluate the programs by contacting evaluators from NGOs. |