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Hello, AEA365 community. My name is Dorothy Lucks, an inaugural member of EVALSDGs, a credentialed evaluator, a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society and, more importantly, an individual committed to embedding the global-local sustainable development goals (SDGs) in every evaluation that I am involved with. This blog summarizes key ways that all evaluators can get involved in evaluations that can contribute to sustainable change.

Greetings! I’m Paula Richardson from Salanga, an organization dedicated to reimagining monitoring and evaluation practices for community ownership, gender equality, and transformative change. Through our work with 50+ communities worldwide, we have gained insights and identified key takeaways from implementing a Community-Led monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning approach (CoLMEAL).

My name is Svetlana Negroustoueva and I lead Evaluation Function in CGIAR, an agriculture research for development organization.

And my name is John Gargani. I’m a former AEA President and a member of CGIAR’s Evaluation Reference Group.

What is Research for Development?

Research for development (R4D) is scientific research undertaken to improve the lives of people and the environment. Often, it produces innovations with the potential to create transformational impacts. When evaluating research for development, two domains must be addressed: the quality of science and development impacts. We describe how this is done at CGIAR, which recently published a new framework for evaluating R4D.

Greetings! I am Andrealisa Belzer, President of the Canadian Evaluation Society and a Credentialed Evaluator employed with the Atlantic Region of Indigenous Services Canada. I have practised health and social services evaluation since 1995 in Canada and internationally. She embraces evaluative practice that facilitates social and ecological thrivability.

We measure what we value. This is not news. But do we recognize what Americans commonly value?

My name is Andrea Nelson Trice, PhD, and I’m the president of Catalyst Research LLC.  I spent part of my childhood living in the Peruvian rainforest and that experience still shapes my work. I have conducted research on cross-cultural power dynamics for more than two decades. My most recent publication, Strong Together: Building Partnerships across Cultures in an Age of Distrust, draws from 90 interviews with American and Majority World leaders. Together we explore the human complexities of international development work.

Greetings from John Baek and Diamond St. Thomas, the Integrating Technology in Evaluation (ITE) TIG Co-chairs. There has been a growing interest within the TIG and across AEA on the opportunities for integrating emerging technologies as well as with administrative systems in evaluation. It is our impression that these themes have tended to focus on …

Tech TIG Week: Integrating Technology in Evaluation TIG Themes by John Baek and Diamond St. Thomas Read More »

Our names are Nisaa Kirtman and Ayesha Boyce. We are both Black women, mothers, daughters, mentors/mentees, researchers/evaluators. A unifying truth to our many selves and identities teaches us that we are social creatures, at our best when we can learn from (and lean on) others. The past few years have painfully taught us the power …

DEI Working Group Week: Passing Generational Wisdom: Using Narrative and Oral History to Honor Legacies (Part I) by Nisaa Kirtman and Ayesha Boyce Read More »