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Environmental Program Evaluation

EPE Week: Lee-Anne Molony on Collaborative Outcomes Reporting

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 23, 2013

I’m Lee-Anne Molony and I’m a Principal Consultant at Clear Horizon. We’re an Australian consultancy who specializes in participatory monitoring and evaluation for environmental management and agricultural programs. This post will talk about a technique we developed, Collaborative Outcomes Reporting (previously known as Participatory Performance Story Reporting). This technique is currently being used nationally across …

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EPE Week: Anna Williams on Why I am NOT an Environmentalist

3 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 22, 2013

My name is Anna Williams.  I’m an independent evaluator based in Seattle, Washington.  I evaluate global societal challenges. I would like to have reason to unlearn a lesson. How many of you tune out when you hear the word “environment”?  If you are a self-described “environmentalist” do you see eyes glaze over when you use …

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EPE Week: Tracy Dyke-Redmond on Evaluating Adaptation Plans

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 21, 2013

Hello, I’m Tracy Dyke-Redmond, a Senior Associate at IEC, an environmental and economics consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I work on all types of evaluation and performance measurement for EPA and other federal clients.  Recently, we have seen an uptick in interest in evaluating adaptation planning efforts to respond to the effects of climate change. …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on The Environmental Evaluators Network

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / December 4, 2011

My name is Matt Keene and I work with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Evaluation Support Division, where I help to coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN). The purpose of the EEN is to advance the field of environmental evaluation through more systematic and collective learning. The EEN’s 5th annual Forum will be held in Washington …

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EPE Week: Karlyn Eckman on Using the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Study Method

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / December 4, 2011

My name is Karlyn Eckman. I’m a researcher at the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center, and also a long-time United Nations consultant. I’d like to share an evaluation tool that we’ve borrowed from our colleagues in public health and psychology. The knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) study method has been used for decades in …

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EPE Week: Andy Rowe on Getting the Evaluand Right

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / December 4, 2011

This is Andy Rowe. I am an independent consultant operating from the US in South Carolina and Canada from Hilton Beach Ontario. My first evaluation of a resource related program was an evaluation of the Newfoundland Bait Service in 1985. Since then I have undertaken evaluations in many social and natural settings and on all …

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EPE Week: Jane Peters on Engagement in the Field of Energy Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Environmental Program Evaluation / December 4, 2011

My name is Jane Peters, and I am the owner of a 19 person firm in Portland Oregon that conducts process and market evaluations of energy efficiency, renewable energy program and other resource conserving programs. I am a 20-year member of AEA and a board member of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), which …

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EPE Week: Juan Paulo Ramírez on GIS Resources

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / December 4, 2011

My name is Juan Paulo Ramírez and I am a research specialist with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. I use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for project evaluations which have included a broad variety of applications both in the social and physical sciences. Recently a lot of interest has been concentrated on geographic visualization, …

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EPE Week: Annelise Carleton-Hug on Environmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / December 4, 2011

Hello! My name is Annelise Carleton-Hug and I am a principle partner of Trillium Associates a research, evaluation and consulting company serving clients with programs involving the intersections of environment, education and communities. Hot Tip: As Chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation (EPE) topical interest group, I invite you to check out …

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Susan Kistler on Synergies, Measuring Social Media, Allison Fine, EPE Week, and Breakfast

3 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 24, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. Last week, I noted that I was writing from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). This week, I am going to try to tie together learnings from NTC, upcoming events within …

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