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ICCE TIG Week: Mitigating Risk Posed by the Evaluation of Advocacy Work in the Global Souths by Jenn Esala, Kirsten Anderson, Craig Higson-Smith & Liz Sweitzer

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / June 3, 2021

Hello! This is Jenn Esala, Kirsten Anderson, and Craig Higson-Smith with the Center for Victims of Torture along with Liz Sweitzer with The Evaluation Center at the University of Colorado Denver. We were a part of a project to develop human rights-focused advocacy evaluation tools with and for Global South activists. The Global South refers …

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Advocacy vs Objectivity in Evaluation by Yuan(Linda) Zhou

3 Comments / Uncategorized / October 12, 2019

Hello everyone! I am Yuan (Linda) Zhou. Besides academic training in agricultural economics. I am a current student of Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation at Carleton University (Ontario, CA).  As I am learning and practicing evaluation along with the program, I am building my understanding in research paradigms. I am especially interested …

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WE Affiliate Week: How Do We Know If Our Advocacy Is Making a Difference … or Not? By Carlisle Levine

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 19, 2018

Hello! I am Carlisle Levine with BLE Solutions, LLC. Much of my evaluation work is related to advocacy. Figuring out an advocacy effort’s contribution to policy change is challenging. Prior to launching my own company, I led advocacy evaluation for CARE USA. One year, we experienced policy win after policy win. We felt euphoric. But …

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Evaluators’ potential role in the current sociopolitical environment by Dominica McBride

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 11, 2017

AEA365 Curator note: We generally feature posts by AEA staff and AEA365 Curators on Saturdays, and are now pleased to offer occasional Saturday blog posts from our esteemed AEA Board members! Hi, I am Dominica McBride with Become: Center for Community Engagement and Social Change and serve you on the AEA Board of Directors. John …

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Liz Zadnik on Bringing passion and enthusiasm to program evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 7, 2014

Hello! I am Liz Zadnik, Capacity Building Specialist at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I’m also a new member of the aea365 curating team and first-time Saturday contributor!  Over the past five years I have been working within the anti-sexual violence movement at both the state and national levels to share my enthusiasm …

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APC TIG Week: Lisa Hilt on Yes, it can be that simple! Value for Money analyses in policy advocacy and campaigns

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 9, 2014

Hi! I’m Lisa Hilt, a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam. We strive for policy changes that will right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. Much of our progress takes place in small steps forward, resulting from ongoing engagement with key stakeholders and multiple campaign spikes (high intensity, short-term …

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APC TIG Week: Carlisle Levine on Using Contribution Analysis to Explore Causal Relationships in Advocacy and Policy Change

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 9, 2014

Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in advocacy, peacebuilding and strategic evaluation. I led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. A big challenge in advocacy evaluation, because of the many factors that influence policy change and the time it takes for change to come about, is drawing causal …

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APC TIG Week: Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj on Small Picture, Big Picture: Using the Framework for Public Policy Advocacy in a Large-Scale Advocacy Campaign

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Data Visualization and Reporting / March 9, 2014

Hello evaluation world! We are Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj from Innovation Network. This might sound familiar: you are given hundreds of pages of grant documents to make sense of. You are left wondering, “Where do I start?” We were recently tasked with guiding evaluation for a funder’s national advocacy campaign, and had to make …

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APC TIG Week: Jewlya Lynn on Evaluations of Public Will-Building Strategies

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 9, 2014

I’m Jewlya Lynn, CEO at Spark Policy Institute, where we combine policy work with real-time evaluations of advocacy, field building, collective impact, and systems building to achieve sustainable, meaningful change. While advocacy evaluation as a field has developed tools and resources that are practical and appropriate for advocacy, it has done little to figure out …

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APC TIG Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Monitoring and Evaluation for Human Rights Organizations

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 12, 2014

Hello! My name is Rhonda Schlangen and I’m an evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and development. By sharing struggles and strategies, evaluators and human rights organizations can help break down the conceptual, capacity and cultural barriers to using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to support human rights work. In this spirit, three human rights organizations candidly …

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