Conference Call Dialogue on Evaluation

Please join in a conference call on August 17 from noon-1:30pm EDT. This will be the start of what we hope will become an on-going dialogue (so, if you’ll be on vacation, we hope you’ll join us next time!)

The Public Health Agency of Canada has graciously offered to host the call. The dial in number and code are:

Dial-in: 1-877-413-4785

Passcode: 2646332#

If you know of others who might be interested, please send on this email.

To help prepare for the call and make good use of our time together, we’re asking you to email us by August 9, your responses to the following:

1. In no more than 2 sentences, tell us who you are and what you do. (This will be shared with other participants in advance of the meeting so that we don’t need to spend too much time with introductions. Please let us know if you do not want your email address shared with others.)

2. Which of the following best captures your interest in this conversation on evaluation? (Please select no more than 2 responses).

· Improving the practice of dialogue and deliberation

· Making the case for dialogue (Please specify target audience, e.g. my organization, funders, policy-makers, others)

· Learning what works and what doesn’t

· Connecting practitioners and researchers/academics

· Better understanding the links, if any, between dialogue and policy making

· Performance measures

· Other ideas, please specify:

3. How would you suggest our calls get structured for effective learning and sharing of ideas? (Please select no more than 2 responses.)

· Case studies of formal evaluations

· Sharing stories about what has worked and what hasn’t

· Sharing of tools and approaches to evaluation

· Addressing specific questions/issues around evaluation

· Other ideas, please specify:

4. Any other thoughts/reflections you’d like to share on evaluation of dialogue and deliberation?

Please send back you email responses to jdaleowi [dot] ca by August 9, 2010.

Thanks and looking forward to this first call together.

The C2D2 team of:

Jacquie Dale, Pattie LaCroix and Miriam Wyman

www.C2d2.ca