Renewal: A New Era for International Development Professionals
2016 Annual Conference, May 9 - 10, 2016
Hellenic Meeting & Reception Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
| Session: | Measuring Progress on Sustainable Development: Agenda 2030 and the SDG Indicators |
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Speakers: |
Prof. Shannon Kindornay, Adjunct Research Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University Ms. Livia Bizikova Phd., Program Director, International Institute for Sustainable Development Mr. Colin Kirk, Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF Ms. Cara Williams, Chief Advisor for International Cooperation and Corporate Statistical Methods Division, Statistics Canada |
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Objective: |
In March 2016, United Nations member states agreed to a proposed global indicator framework for monitoring progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This panel will include an overview of how the SDG indicators were developed and what they entail. Panelists will discuss the implications of the new indicators for evaluation systems, and highlight opportunities and challenges for countries going forward. The discussion will also make reference to specific implications for Canada. |
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Biography(ies): |
Prof. Shannon Kindornay, Adjunct Research Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
Ms. Livia Bizikova Phd., Program Director, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Mr. Colin Kirk, Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF
In 2008, he served as Chair of the Evaluation Cooperation Group, the professional network linking the evaluation offices of the various international financial institutions; and was Vice-Chair of the Evaluation Network of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee in 2002. He is currently Vice Chair (Partnerships) of the UN Evaluation Group and co-Chair of EvalPartners, a global partnership aimed at building evaluation capacity in civil society organizations. He is also co-Chair of EvalSDG, a network aiming to promote evaluation in the context of the globally agreed sustainable development goals. Colin graduated from the University of Cambridge in the UK. He completed an MPhil at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and a DPhil in social anthropology at the University of Sussex. Presentation: Evaluation - Six Key Issues Material: Evaluation - A crucial ingredient for SDG success Ms. Cara Williams, Chief Advisor for International Cooperation and Corporate Statistical Methods Division, Statistics Canada
Before making Ottawa her home with her husband and two children, Ms. Williams worked as an Economic Analyst with the Government of British Columbia where she conducted economic impact assessments of treaties under negotiation. She has completed a BA in Economics from the University of Alberta and a MA in Economics from the University of Victoria. |
Shannon Kindornay is an Adjunct Research Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Her research focuses on development cooperation, global governance, and aid and the private sector. Prior to joining Carleton University, Ms. Kindornay was a researcher at the North-South Institute for nearly five years where she produced numerous reports, peer reviewed publications and commentaries on a range of policy issues, including multilateral development cooperation, Canada's development cooperation program and the role of the private sector in development. Ms. Kindornay holds degrees from Carleton University and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Livia Bizikova is a Director at IISD’s Knowledge for Integrated Decisions with experience in the fields of sustainable development, integrated assessment, environmental impact assessment, scenarios, governance and mainstreaming, and indicator development and measurement of SD trends. Livia’s work also focuses on linking experts’ knowledge and stakeholders’ experiences by using foresight and scenario tool to develop future pathways for SD, climate change adaptation, agriculture, and resilience. She worked in a large number of countries in Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda), in Asia (Vietnam, Tajikistan), in Central America and the Caribbean (Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Suriname, number of Caribbean countries), and in North America and in Europe. Livia published peer-reviewed publications in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Regional Environmental Change, Climate Policy and others.
Colin Kirk has been UNICEF’s Director of Evaluation since 2011. The Director manages the Evaluation Office at UNICEF’s headquarters in New York and, more widely, provides leadership of the evaluation function across UNICEF. 
Cara Williams is a Chief Advisor in the International Cooperation and Corporate Statistical Methods Division as Staistics Canada where she manages various statistical capacity building projects. Along with these responsibilities, she has also taken on the role of being the Canadian representative on the United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Advisory Group for Sustainable Development Goal indicators. Prior to this challenge, she worked as the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Social Trends and as Senior Researcher for Perspectives on Labour and Income at Statistics Canada where she published several research papers on various social issues in Canada.