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DRG TIG Week: Democracy, Rights & Governance (DRG) Approaches to Learning Agendas by Laura Adams

My name is Laura Adams and I am a learning agenda fanatic (as well as the Co-Chair of the DRG TIG this year), so I’m happy to be introducing the DRG week blogs, all of which touch on learning agendas. “Learning agendas” have become ubiquitous across United States Government (USG) agencies over the last five years following the passage of the Evidence Act in 2018 and are now required as a type of systematic plan for identifying and addressing important questions to inform decision-making based on project evaluations. Our blog posts this week focuses on NGOs and also examines the slippery concept of “capacity building” in the DRG sector and will share some exciting updates from colleagues who have been part of the Made in Africa Evaluation project.

DRG TIG Week: Process Tracing and Wicked Problems by Laura Adams and Sarya Sok

Hello, we are Laura Adams, a MEL Director at Pact, and Sarya Sok, Acting Team Lead for Applied Learning and Evaluation at the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. We are fans of solving wicked MEL challenges in democracy, rights, and governance programs (aka pulling for the DRG underdogs with our MEL muscles).?

ACM TIG Week: Collaborating with Practitioners to Create Relevant Instruments to Measure Library Staff Capacity for Informal Learning Activities by Patricia Montaño, Megan Littrell, Anne Gold, Claire Ratcliffe Adams, & Brooks Mitchell

We are Patricia Montaño, Megan Littrell, and Anne Gold from CIRES Education & Outreach at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Claire Ratcliffe Adams and Brooks Mitchell from the National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. We collaborate on the We are Water project to design informal Science, …

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Evaluation Teams Week: Not if, but when: What to do when something goes wrong by Chithra Adams and Rebecca Stewart

Hello! We are Chithra Adams, Director of Evaluations at the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky and Rebecca Stewart, Chief Practice Officer at The Improve Group, a research and evaluation firm based in Minnesota. For today’s post on evaluation teams, we are tackling a topic that no team leader relishes – what to …

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Evaluation Teams Week: Leading evaluation teams by Chithra Adams and Leah Goldstein Moses

Hello, we are Chithra Adams, Director of Evaluations at the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky, and Leah Goldstein Moses, CEO of The Improve Group, a research and evaluation consulting firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota. There is an African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you …

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DG TIG Week: Using a Learning Agenda to Bridge Academia and Practice by Laura Adams and Laura Ahearn

We are “the Lauras:” Laura Adams, Institute for International Education, USAID Democracy Fellow in Learning Utilization, and Laura Ahearn, Dexis Consulting Group, Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Specialist with the USAID LEARN contract. We both made mid-career moves from university faculties in the social sciences to the Learning Division of the Center of Excellence …

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Program Design Week: Chithra Adams on Prototyping in Program Design and Evaluation

I’m Chithra Adams, a program evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I explore how design principles and research can be applied to program evaluation. Rad Idea – prototyping: A key part of the design process is prototyping. Prototyping is a process by which ideas and concepts are tested for technical and social …

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Chithra Adams on Evaluating with a Design Attitude

I’m Chithra Adams, a program evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I explore how design principles and research can be applied to program evaluation. Rad Idea – Design attitude: Designers have a particular mindset and attitude towards problem solving. According to Boland and Collopy (2004), this mindset will help managers constantly strive …

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Bloggers Week: Chithra Adams on Evaluation and Design Thinking

Hello! My name is Chithra Adams. I work as an evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I blog about design thinking and evaluation. Rad Resource – Evaluation and Design Thinking: The blog explores the application of design thinking principles to the practice of evaluation. Each post includes a review of design thinking …

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Megan Greeson and Adrienne Adams on Multimedia Reports

I am Megan Greeson, an Assistant Professor of Clinical/Community Psychology at DePaul University. I conduct collaborative, utilization-focused program evaluations with community-based organizations and I also teach a graduate seminar course in Program Evaluation. I am Adrienne Adams, an Assistant Professor of Ecological-Community Psychology and Program Evaluation at Michigan State University. I use collaborative evaluation approaches …

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