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Clara Hagens, Marianna Hensley and Guy Sharrock on Building MEAL Competencies

Greetings! We’re Clara Hagens, Marianna Hensley and Guy Sharrock, Advisors in the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Building on our previous blog dated October 20, Embracing an Organizational Approach to ECB, we’d like to describe the next step in our ongoing MEAL capacity building journey: the development of …

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Clara Hagens, Kelly Scott and Guy Sharrock on Embracing an Organizational Approach to ECB

Greetings! We’re Clara Hagens, Kelly Scott and Guy Sharrock, Advisors in the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Baltimore. We’d like to offer another perspective on Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB), namely, creating and institutionally embedding a suite of MEAL Policies and Procedures (MPP) that ensures a systematic and …

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Dena Lomofsky on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Policy Influence for Think Tanks

Dena Lomofsky, managing member of Southern Hemisphere and Vanesa Weyrauch, co-founder of Politics & Ideas work together to deliver specialist online courses on MEL for think tanks, in the field of policy influence. There are many exciting ways of doing MEL for think tanks, which we would love to share with you. The complexity of …

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Scott Chaplowe on Rad Resources for M&E Training & Capacity Building

Hello AEA365ers! My name is Scott Chaplowe, and I have been working in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for over a decade, (currently with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC). My work involves not only doing M&E myself, but helping others to understand and support it. Whether with communities, project teams, …

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CLEAR Week: Lycia Lima, Aline D’Angelo, Dalila Figueirdo and Lucas Finamor on Convincing policymakers to fund M&E at times of financial crisis

We’re Lycia Lima, Executive Coordinator, Aline D’Angelo and Dalila Figueiredo, Project Managers and Lucas Finamor, Researcher of FGV/CLEAR for Brazil and Lusophone Africa. The Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Brazil and Lusophone Africa (FGV/CLEAR) is based at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a Brazilian think tank and higher education institution, dedicated to promoting …

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CLEAR Week: Gabriela Perez Yarahuan, Ana Ramírez Valencia, Indrani Barrón Illescas and Emil Salim Miyar on Organizing a National M&E Conference Collaboratively and Across Cities

We are Gabriela Perez Yarahuan, Ana Ramírez Valencia, Indrani Barrón Illescas and Emil Salim Miyar, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. Recently, in May 2016, we worked with other M&E leading groups in Mexico to co-organize the …

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CLEAR Week: Lycia Lima on Improving Impact Evaluation Planning

I am Lycia Lima, the executive coordinator of the newest CLEAR center- for Brazil and Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Africa. We’re formally joining CLEAR later this year and are planning our inauguration in October 2015. I was also one of the organizers involved in the formation of the Brazilian M&E Network – Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e …

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CLEAR Week: Urmy Shukla on Next steps in M&E capacity building: What happens after the training is over?

I’m Urmy Shukla, Capacity Building Manager at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, hosted by J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. Since our 2011 start with CLEAR we’ve developed a wide-range of activities aimed at improving monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity throughout the region, including 90 trainings for partners such …

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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña Advancing Evaluation of Climate Change in Latin America by Bringing Together Diverse Stakeholders

We are Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. We’re sharing our work in advancing knowledge in evaluating climate change and how we’re addressing it through the upcoming International …

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Viengsavanh Sanaphane and Katie Moore on Dynamic Data Presentation and Recording for an Empowerment Evaluation Approach

We are Viengsavanh Sanaphane and Katie Moore from Catholic Relief Services.  We are working on an Inclusive Education (IE) project in Southeast Asia. Currently, IE efforts are expanding. Experienced partners that have worked on IE for years in the local context were planning to share qualitative data about their project with stakeholders new to the …

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