19. ASELA KALUGAMPITIYA - Connecting to the policy level
He is not the only one saying it: in this podcast, Asela Kalugampitiya (University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka) argues that evaluators need to make their findings and recommendations digestible and actionable, so that policymakers can carry them forward into laws and policies. He has more than earned his right to speak though, by tirelessly working to bridge the gap between evaluation and policy for the past ten years. He speaks of how networks were built across the globe and how parliamentarians increasingly take an interest in evaluation. And they should: if we want to achieve the SDGs, we need to know what we’re doing, and to know what we’re doing we need to measure.
ASELA KALUGAMPITIYA is a lawyer, currently the President of both Sri Lanka Evaluation Association and the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association. Asela has been working in the Monitoring and & Evaluation field over two decades including for international organizations such as International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE), International Development Law Organization (IDLO), UN Women, UNICEF, UNFPA, ILO and CARE International as Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. Asela is the Secretariat for the Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation. Asela was instrumental in launching the International Year of Evaluation 2015 globally and organizing Global Evaluation Forum held at the parliament of Nepal and parliament of Kyrgyz Republic. He is the (honorary) Director- Center for Evaluation, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and a member of the teaching faculty of the Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation course run by the same university.
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