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Monitoring

Seven tips to decolonize your MEL practice, by Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell

We are Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) professionals with the International Republican Institute (IRI), a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy and governance worldwide. Though not experts on decolonizing evaluation, we recently reflected on our practices and identified 7 Hot Tips to decolonize MEL:   Hot Tips: Acknowledge MEL’s …

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EEE Week: Pam Larson Nippolt on Metronomes, Monitoring, & Making Sense of Enrollment Data

My name is Pam Larson Nippolt and I am a University of Minnesota Extension Evaluation and Research Specialist working with a team of program evaluators in 4-H youth development programs. Lesson Learned: Monitoring enrollment data is often a data-related activity that falls under the umbrella of program management.   Monitoring enrollment data enables program leaders to …

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APC Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Joint Evaluation Strategies for Advocacy and Services

My name is Rhonda Schlangen, and I’m an independent evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and campaign evaluation. Non-governmental service delivery organizations use advocacy as a lever for greater impact.  They often have a tough time finding useful internal evaluation systems to assess their combined service delivery and advocacy work.  Many service providers try to fall …

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Sudharshan Seshadri on Resources for Program Evaluation

Hello! My name is Sudharshan Seshadri and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Professional Studies specializing in Humanitarian Services Administration. I started to realize that “data” is being considered as a most promising feature to understand the activity of evaluation. To abstract the data needs, I believe as an evaluator, we should be …

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Susan Kistler on Monitoring Blog Use

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post. Since we started aea365 on January 1, I’ve received questions about how we monitor readership. Rad Resource: Feedburner is a free tool from Google through which you can ‘feed’ the content from your blog to track subscribers. It takes 2 minutes to set …

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Susan Kistler on Monitoring Information Dissemination Through Clickthroughs

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. Hot Tip: Use a URL shortener to monitor information dissemination. A URL shortener takes a long URL (location information for a website such as “http://eval.org/”), and makes it shorter. Just …

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