On 14 January 2026, the General Assembly of the Ukrainian Evaluation Association (UEA) was held. During the meeting, members of the Association reviewed key issues related to the organization’s activities and formed an updated leadership team for the next term.
1. Report of the Chair of the UEA Board for 2023–2025
The Chair of the UEA Board Олег Мазурик(2023 – 2025), presented a comprehensive report on the Association’s activities over the past three years. The report highlighted the development of the professional evaluation community, strengthened cooperation with international partners, implementation of educational events and professional programmes, and the growing role of evaluation in public administration and the civil society sector.
The report was unanimously approved.
2.Iryna Skliarova Elected Chair of the UEA Board
Iryna Skliarova, an expert in monitoring and evaluation and an active member of the professional community, known for her work on capacity development of organizations and programmes, was elected Chair of the UEA Board. In her new role, she plans to focus on strengthening the institutional capacity of the UEA, raising professional standards, and expanding the professional evaluation community.
3. Election of the New UEA Board
UEA members continuing their service on the Board:
Andrii Derkach
Newly elected Board members:
The Ukrainian Evaluation Association congratulates the newly elected Chair and members of the renewed Board and sincerely wishes them inspiration, strength, success, and productive work for the advancement of evaluation in Ukraine.
Ahead lie ambitious goals, new partnerships, and important initiatives that will contribute to strengthening the culture of evaluation in the public and civil society sectors.
Olha Krasovska and Liubov Margolina took part in professional workshops and Dmytro Kondratenko co-delivered the workshop ‘Evaluating Humanitarian Action: Steps, Challenges, and Real-time Learning’: https://ipdet.org/event/ii-d-humanitarian-evaluations/
Ukrainian Evaluation Association also hosted an Informal exchange ‘Open Forum: Evaluating Humanitarian Action’ where all interested participants could learn about humanitarian evaluations and activities of Ukrainian Evaluation Association.
The International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) is an executive training program that aims to provide decision-makers, managers and practitioners with the tools and skills to commission, manage and implement policy, program or project evaluations at local, national, regional, and global levels as well as to use those evaluations for decision-making. IPDET sets a great focus on practice and provides a diversified approach for audiences from different organizations and sectors who play different roles in the evaluation process. More about IPDET https://ipdet.org/
This year two EES sessions were fully dedicated to Ukraine. The session ‘Personal resilience and synergies of Ukrainian evaluators: Finding possible solutions in impossible situations’ was organized by Ukrainian Evaluation Association and gathered together Ukrainian evaluators and their supporters from different countries. The session was chaired by Dr. Olga Mrinska, Associate Director and Senior Evaluator at the Independent Evaluation Department, EBRD.
The session was built around personal stories of Ukrainian evaluators who over the last two years found solutions to continue their professional evaluation activities in new circumstances, including through harnessing new partnerships with European colleagues to strengthen capacities and facilitate mutual learning. It explored different ways of strengthening evaluation capacities, building personal resilience, and facilitating professional synergies while responding to extreme crisis situations.
More details could be found here:
Another session "Synergies and Impact: Evaluating International Response to War on Ukraine” was organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and chaired by Dr. Olha Krasovska, Board Member of the European Evaluation Association.
The objective of the session was to stocktake the evaluative evidence that has emerged in the last several years with regard to responding to systemic humanitarian, economic, and social crisis in Ukraine caused by Russian war of aggression, to discuss the design of the recently launched evaluations, and to investigate the ways in which inter-institutional co-ordination can enhance the usability of this evidence.
Presenters:
Olga Mrinska, EBRD, “Learning for action from real-time evaluation (RTE) of EBRD’s response to the war on Ukraine and from previous relevant evaluations”.
Javier Fabra-Mata, NORAD, Insights from “Real-time evaluation of the civilian component of Norway’s Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine”.
Vincent Coppens, and Theo Mercadal, ADE, Insights from evaluation commissioned by one of the humanitarian agencies in Ukraine.
Stefan Leiderer, Deval, “Strategic evaluation of Germany’s support to Ukraine”.
