Greetings! We are Rugi Kane and Susan Igras, evaluators working across cultures and countries and recent facilitators of the AEA Professional Development Workshop in Portland, “Let’s Slay those adolescent and youth-focused program evaluations! Crucial concepts in planning evaluations and integrating meaningful youth engagement approaches and methods.”
We, Thomas Scialfa, Alaa Issa, and Tom Clark, work with the Mercy Corps Global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team based in Louisiana, USA; Amman, Jordan; and Edinburgh, Scotland, respectively. We are excited to share the critical importance of using a Scope of Work (SoW)/Terms of Reference (TOR) checklist when commissioning or leading midterm or final evaluations. Using this tool is helping us substantially improve the quality and effectiveness of our evaluations.
Hello! We are Nicole Walshe (Independent Consultant), Marta Arranz (Director, Climate SMILE Community of Practice), Amelia Abdelrazik (Director of Operations and Impact at 128 Collective), and Anna Ploeg (Community and Communications Manager, Climate SMILE Community of Practice). We have teamed up under the Climate SMILE Community of Practice to explore how climate funders can support collective learning and equitable knowledge for climate action, and we are delighted to share with this community what we have been learning.
Hello, AEA365 community, and happy Conference Week from Portland! The AEA staff have been working overtime to prepare for our biggest event of the year. Whether you will be joining us for the conference or not, you can keep up with our happenings via the AEA365 blog. See you around! -Liz DiLuzio, Lead Curator Hi …
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Hello, my name is Dr. Adeyemo Adetogun (ETR Services LLC), originally from the Yoruba ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, and I have lived experiences in other Western and Southern Africa. Impactful evaluation begins with cultural humility and a commitment to embracing perspectives beyond our own. When working with indigenous communities in Africa, it’s essential to …
We are Nicky Bowman, Charmagne Campbell-Patton, and Michael Quinn Patton, here to share about a partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Bowman Performance Consulting, a native and women-owned evaluation firm. This is a story about decolonizing funding, partnerships, and design/implementation of a project and related processes. Our intergenerational and intersectional team brought together …
Aloha mai kākou (hello, everyone), we are Niegel Rozet, Debbie Gowensmith, and Kinohi Fukumitsu, evaluation collaborators at a Native Hawaiian-serving organization. Niegel and Kinohi (both Native Hawaiian) are with Kua‘āina Ulu ‘Auamo (KUA), a backbone organization supporting Hawaiian practitioners at the intersection of land, community, and justice. Debbie has worked with KUA since 2004 and …
“When people get onto you for being [privileged], that’s kind of unfair, isn’t it?” This question arose from one of my students during a discussion about privilege as a form of social control. Instead of answering directly, I asked, “What do you think of #notallmen?” Another student explained that the hashtag emerged during the #metoo …
I’m Corrie Whitmore, an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Past President of the American Evaluation Association. I’m a teacher of evaluation, mother of Indigenous children, and lifelong Alaskan. I’m an “accidental evaluator” who began my evaluation career on Dena’ina Land working for a tribally owned and operated healthcare …
Hello, fellow evaluators! My name is Gladys Rowe, PhD, and I love getting creative. You may be thinking, great, but why are you writing about this in an AEA blog?? Stick with me… I love playing around with creative practices and am deeply invested in the intersections of Indigenous evaluation, decolonization, and reflexivity. And combining …
