A special event on Communities of Practice for Evaluation will take place during the IDEAS Conference, to present and discuss the approaches of EvalForward and Earth-Eval, two CoPs which aim at supporting knowledge sharing and capacity development in evaluation and focusing respectively on Agriculture and on Climate Change.

Oscar Garcia, Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, and Juha Uitto, Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation of the GEF will open the event, which will be held at the Hotel Duo, Prague, on Thursday 4 October at 18:30.