Interactive workshop held on-site at UTS.
2025
Building on a successful Evaluation short course delivered in 2024, the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) are delivering another course to train 20 mid- to senior-level officials from the Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance and other agencies involved in Public Financial Management (PFM) reform. We are pleased to welcome the 2025 cohort to the UTS campus in September 2025.
The course strengthens participants’ ability to design and implement effective monitoring and evaluation frameworks, enhances their capacity to use evaluation findings for evidence-based decision-making, and equips them with practical tools to assess the impact of reforms. These skills contribute to improving the efficiency, transparency, and accountability of Cambodia’s public financial management systems.
A key component of the methodology is co-design of the course content and learning process with the PFM Reform Committee to ensure that the training achieves expected learning outcomes and that these are contextualised and practical for use by staff.
Delivered through blended learning workshops facilitated by UTS-ISF, the course covers the fundamentals of evaluation including key topics, theories, and techniques. Participants engage with expert speakers drawn from government, academia, and the evaluation community of practice, gaining diverse perspectives and real-world insights. The course emphasises group-based experiential learning, where participants apply evaluation concepts to practical scenarios relevant to the PFM Reform Committee’s work. This approach supports real-time learning, peer exchange, and iterative feedback, ensuring that both technical and contextual aspects of evaluation are fully explored.
2024
Over five days in May 2024, ISF’s International Development team delivered an evaluation course tailored to 13 delegates from the Cambodian Ministry of Economy and Finance.
This initiative marks a pivotal step as Cambodia's monitoring and evaluation department begin to develop new evaluation guidelines and commence its first policy and program evaluations in 2026.
Designed specifically for the Economy and Finance Ministry's monitoring and evaluation department, the course covered critical topics such as:
- evaluation planning and design
- evaluation methodologies
- commissioning evaluations
- ethics and social justice in evaluation
- assessing evaluations
- using and communicating evaluation findings.
Researchers
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Research Principal -
Program Lead - International Development -
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Associate Director Learning and Development -
Research Principal
Year
- 2024
