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The Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) Working Session on April 17, 2025, will focus on “Transforming Climate Action Through Evidence and Learning: A Multi-stakeholder Invitation to Action”

The urgency and complexity of climate change presents challenges and opportunities for evaluation as a practice. To meet the moment, those who commission, manage, conduct, and use evaluative evidence, may have to adopt new ways of working.

By bringing together leaders from philanthropy, climate funds, multilateral development banks and the private sector, this working session will present a multi-stakeholder perspective on “Evaluation and Learning in the Context of Climate Change: An Invitation to Action". The joint statement, created by more than 20 global organizations, was launched by the Rockefeller Foundation and its partners earlier this year. The “Invitation to Action” calls on evaluation and learning practitioners to:

Shift focus from projects to systems
Become champions of evidence-informed decision-making
Deploy evaluative practice early and often
Embrace multiple ways of knowing
Learn collectively to scale impact

Shawna Hoffman, Managing Director for Strategic Learning & Impact at the Rockefeller Foundation, will lead the discussion.

This virtual working session forms part of a series of informal 60-minute workshops to collaborate on evidence, knowledge, and analysis that can drive transformational change in climate action and grow the TCLP’s community of practice. Follow the series here.

SPEAKERS

Shawna Hoffman

Managing Director for Strategic Learning & Impact

The Rockefeller Foundation

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Shawna Hoffman (she/her) is the Managing Director for Strategic Learning & Impact at The Rockefeller Foundation, where she’s worked since early 2016. In her role, Shawna helps to shape and operationalize the Foundation's strategy for monitoring, evaluation and learning (M&E) across its programs and at the institutional level. She also oversees a body of work focused on M&E field building.

An international development evaluation practitioner by training, Shawna has 15 years of experience supporting largescale M&E efforts within various government, bi/multilateral and non-governmental organizations, including the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada), World Food Programme, and MasterCard Foundation. Her work experience spans dozens of countries across North America, Asia, and Africa.

Shawna holds a Masters of International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and a B.A. in Political Studies from Queen’s University.

Agenda

Apr 17

09:00 AM - 09:05 AM

Introduction to the TCLP Working Session

09:05 AM - 09:20 AM

Presentation

Presentation on the five actions articulated in the “Evaluation and Learning in the Context of Climate Change: An Invitation to Action".

09:20 AM - 09:55 AM

Discussion

The speaker will work through three questions during this session:
1. What’s missing, or may need to be added/evolved in light of the changing context since this was originally draft in late 2024?
2. What do you think it would take to move organizations and individuals increasingly in this direction?
3. What ideas or opportunities are there for actions, projects, or partnerships in response to this invitation?

09:55 AM - 10:00 AM

Closing

TCLP Working Session #12: Transforming Climate Action Through Evidence and Learning: A Multi-stakeholder Invitation to Action

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