GANA PATI OJHA
EVALUATOR
President, Community of Evaluators-South Asia(CoE-South Asia)
Executive Board,Community of Evaluators-Nepl(CoE-N)
Evaluation makes a difference in the livelihoods of people by enhancing development effectiveness, improving governance and contributing to building trust among the development actors. This change, however, is true only when there is a high-quality evaluation. The high-quality evaluation depends largely on what tools, methods, quality assurance mechanisms are used and analysis made but much more largely on how these are done differently—the process and approach. I believe in synergy created by right use of appropriate tools that leads to quality evaluation. I do use these tools in evaluation as per the need of the context.
EDUCATION
University of thee Philippines, Los Banos
June 1996—October 1999
PhD, Extension education and Development management
University of Maryland,
College Park
July 1983—August 1985
MS, Agricultural and extension education
Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar, India
May 1970—April 1975
BS, Agricultural sciences
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
TRANINGS
Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluation
Organised by EvalPartners in collaboration with UNICEF and IOCE
National Evaluation Capacity Development for Country-Led M&E Systems
Organised by EvalPartnersin collaboration with UNICEF and IOCE
Emerging Practices in Development Evaluations
Organised by EvalPartnersin collaboration with UNICEF and IOCE
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RECENT EVALUATION
WORKS
WORKS
RECENT DEVELOPMENT
WORKS
PRESENTATIONS
November, 2017
Creating and sustaining a culture of working together for national evaluation capacity development. Presented at the American Evaluation Association Evaluation held in Washington DC.
Creating and sustaining a culture of working together for national evaluation capacity development.
November 8-11, 2017
November 8-11, 2017
PPT presented at the Evaluation Conclave IV organised by the Community of Evaluators South Asia in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Policy/Act in Nepal
June, 2017
June, 2017
National Evaluation Capacity Development: Nepal, PPT presented at the Evaluation Conclave IV organised by the Community of Evaluators South Asia in Thimphu, Bhutan.
National Evaluation Capacity Development
RECENT RESEARCH
WORKS
WORKS
AWARDS
2015
EvalPartners Award given for outstanding contribution to the advancement of evaluation
Presented at the Global Evaluation Week celebrated on the occasion of the International Evaluation Year 2015
2004
2004
Fellowship
Appreciative Inquiry Consultative Group for participating in Second Annual Conference, Miami, USA
2003
2003
Fellowship
Global Development Network for Outstanding Research Medal.
2002
2002
Fellowship
Imagine Chicago for participating in 10th Anniversary.
COUNTRIES of WORK EXPERIENCE
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
Bhutan
China
India
Maldives
Pakistan
USA
Philippines
Tajikistan
Timor-Leste
Nepal
Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Timor-Leste, China, USA, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India