Hello, AEA365 readers! I’m Guili Zhang, Professor of Evaluation and Research at East Carolina University. Today, I’m excited to share some insights on how we can weave Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into evaluation—a practice that enhances the quality of our evaluations and ensures they are more meaningful and impactful.
Hi! I’m Nashwan Ahmed from EvalYemen Organization for Development. Today I’ll share insights from our work using evaluation approaches to address conflict in Yemen, where we’ve learned valuable lessons about conducting evaluations in challenging humanitarian contexts.
Happy holidays! This is Elizabeth Grim, AEA365 Curator (not to be confused with our fabulous Lead Curator, Liz DiLuzio). When I’m not supporting the blog, I’m working in my role as the Founder and CEO of Elizabeth Grim Consulting, where I help nonprofits and foundations align their evaluation strategies with their vision and values. Today, I’m writing to you in my role as AEA365 Curator to reflect on the past year of the blog.
If you’re a regular reader here, you know that AEA365 is a virtual space where we, as evaluators, can collectively educate, explore, and exchange ideas. This past year of AEA365 kept up that tradition, filled with inspiring contributions, rich discussions, and shared wisdom from evaluators across the globe.
My name is Dr. Kinsey Simone, and I teach quantitative research methods at Tennessee Tech University and evaluate university-internal and external projects. I never look forward to opening a blank page to draft an evaluation report based on (usually) a large plethora of data points. In this blog, I share three rad (and free!) resources regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms that can make this task more efficient without losing accuracy.
Hello – I’m Kyle Beaulieu and I’ve spent much of my career working for United States Government (USG) agencies in counterterrorism and violence prevention in conflict zones, particularly in Africa. Through my work in operations, planning, and policy, a recurring challenge I’ve encountered is the difficulty in assessing whether foreign assistance interventions are making a …
Imagine you are one of three postgraduate fellows in a training fellowship at an agency you hope to work for in the future. Program staff know where each fellow is working in the agency and about some of their projects. How would you feel if you were asked about your fellowship experience on an evaluation …
Hi, I’m Ulrike Nischan from the evaluation and research team at the national nonprofit organization Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund). I’m excited to share how we recently helped local governments engage youth and community expertise in program design. At the CFE Fund, we provide funding and technical assistance to more than 140 municipalities, supporting …
Hello, Lindsay Scanlon, a lifelong learner here with Guidehouse. Other hats I wear include evaluator and implementer; leadership, executive, and change coach; People, Organization, and Change Community of Practice leader; management consultant; facilitator; and writer. And this is Cara McFadden – someone who loves providing high quality consulting services to our public sector clients that …
Hello, we, Bilquis Khan Jiwani, Omoshalewa Bamkole, and Erin Black are from the Division of Workforce Development (DWD) in the National Center for State, Tribal, Local, Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Recently, DWD updated its strategic goals and approach to evaluation. This gave us an opportunity to create a logic model for DWD’s Office of Policy, Partnership, and Recruitment for the first time. We share our experience applying the Joint Committee on Standards for Education Evaluation (JCSEE) to our logic model development to demonstrate how the JCSEE standards can bring credibility and enhance the quality of evaluation products.
Hi! We’re Stacey Merola and Fouad Pervez. Stacey is a Principal Investigator and Fouad is a Senior Analyst at Guidehouse. Through our work as evaluators, we have worked with data from a range of government clients and have noted that challenges with data access and format can create significant roadblocks for the successful completion of …
