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Where Do I Begin? : Using Best Practices in Culture Change to Incorporate Participatory Evaluation Into Your Work by Elizabeth DiLuzio

3 Comments / Uncategorized / December 6, 2020

Happy weekend! I’m Elizabeth DiLuzio – volunteer curator for AEA365, internal evaluator at Good Shepherd Services, and instructor of Quantitative Methods in Evaluation at New York University. Recently, a few people asked me what I think are the first steps to incorporating a participatory evaluation practice. Suspecting that this is a popular topic these days, I …

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Using Participatory Tools Virtually by Beverly Peters, Michelle Conway, Tabetha Karydas, Talatha Kiazolu-Reeves, Jess Littman, and Mallika Rodriguez.

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / October 2, 2020

Hello! I’m Beverly Peters, faculty member in Measurement and Evaluation at American University, here today with Masters’ students from my Evaluation: Qualitative Methods class: Michelle Conway, Tabetha Karydas, Talatha Kiazolu-Reeves, Jess Littman, and Mallika Rodriguez. In my qualitative methods classes, I impress on students the nature of qualitative inquiry in evaluation, and the goal of …

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Level Up: Growing Your Approach to Participatory Evaluation by Elizabeth DiLuzio

6 Comments / Uncategorized / December 6, 2020

Happy Saturday! My name is Elizabeth DiLuzio, AEA365 Curator + Contributor and Evaluation + Strategy Manager at Good Shepherd Services. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been engaged in a lot of conversations about participatory action evaluation (herewithin participatory evaluation) lately. It seems as if we are all in our corners of the country, …

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Memorial Day Week: Community-Based Participatory Research in the Military: Lessons Learned by Stephen Axelrad

Leave a Comment / Military and Veteran’s / May 23, 2020

Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group.  I am posting this content on community-based participatory research in the military on behalf of a colleague. U.S. Service Members are frequently asked to take surveys from both local installations as well as the Department …

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Dabbling in the Data – data games for teams by Corey Newhouse and Stephanie Kong

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 27, 2017

Greetings AEA365 bloggers! Corey Newhouse and Stephanie Kong here from Public Profit – a consulting firm helping mission-driven organizations measure and manage what matters. If you are like us, you often need to facilitate meaning-making sessions with stakeholders from all levels. Programs are being asked to use more and more data, but it can be …

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Best of AEA365: Fatima Frank and Greg Lestikow on Using a Participatory Ranking Methodology in Focus Groups for Sensitive Topics

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / July 30, 2017

Hello, we are Greg Lestikow, CEO and Fatima Frank, Project Manager of evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives.  We champion impact evaluation that maintains academic rigor but is based entirely on our clients’ need to improve strategic and operational effectiveness and increase profitability. In …

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Using Participatory Video Evaluation (PVE) to increase community engagement and empowerment in the communities of Ndaleta (Tanzania) and Bitilinyu (Malawi) by Miki Tsukamoto

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 8, 2017

Hello! My name is Miki Tsukamoto and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). What if video could be used as the “spark” to increase the engagement and interest of communities in your programmes? Recently, I had an opportunity to be part of …

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Memorial Week in Evaluation: Participation as Buzzword by Akashi Kaul and Rodney Hopson

2 Comments / Uncategorized / May 28, 2017

We are Akashi Kaul, third year graduate student at George Mason University, and Rodney Hopson, former AEA president and professor at George Mason University. Our reflection for this Memorial Day series is on what “participation” means. We highlight three things: (1) the ambiguity around participation’ since it exists in evaluation as both theory and method; …

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SEA Professional Development Week: Tips for Engaging Stakeholders in Participatory Evaluation by Dr. Moya Alfonso

2 Comments / Uncategorized / January 14, 2017

My name is Dr. Moya Alfonso, MSPH, and I’m an Associate Professor at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, and I am University Sector Representative and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I would like to offer you a few tips on engaging stakeholders in participatory evaluation based …

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Jayne Corso with Laurie Stevahn on the Strategies for Interactive Evaluation at Evaluation 2016

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 26, 2016

I caught up with Laurie Stevehn after her full-day workshop: Strategies for Interactive Evaluation, which she presented with Jean King to an engaged and eager group of evaluators who came from a diverse background of cultures and work settings. Why did you choose this topic for Evaluation 2016? Laurie has spent 20-25 years working in …

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