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Advocacy Evaluation is Complicated! Let’s make it simpler by Leah Zallman

Hi! I am Leah Zallman, MD, MPH, physician advocate and advocacy evaluator at the Institute for Community Health. Clearly, I love advocacy! One of the things I love is that it is complicated, which makes evaluating advocacy – you guessed it – complicated! Advocacy leaders try to pull as many people into a cause as …

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Policy Advocacy Evaluation in Turbulent, Disrupted Times (or “The Loneliness of the Embedded Advocacy Evaluator”) Part II by Chris Stalker

Hello. I’m Chris Stalker of Oxfam America with the second of a two-part series on policy advocacy evaluation. Yesterday, I explained that in almost 30 years working in advocacy and campaigning I’ve never felt less confident about ‘how change happens’ than I do now, and that is why we proposed an AEA Conference session on …

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Policy Advocacy Evaluation in Turbulent, Disrupted Times (or “The Loneliness of the Embedded Advocacy Evaluator”) Part I by Chris Stalker

Hello. I’m Chris Stalker of Oxfam America with the first of a two-part series on policy advocacy evaluation. I was recently nearing the end of an internal presentation of a contested policy advocacy and campaign review, when a senior Director reflected: “I disagree. These findings sound like alternative facts to me.” This got me thinking: …

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