Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor and I’m thrilled because one of my present commitments is working again with UNFPA, with the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (fascinating region), facilitating their first Developmental Evaluation (and mine!), and I am fascinated by how this approach I’ve heard and …
Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor. Last week a friend-colleague told me that she was thinking about becoming independent and she asked me about my experience and how I deal with it. I’ve written before about it, but this week, while being on holiday-ish mode with my family by …
Growing Tolerance To The Incertitude Linked To My Practice As A Consultant By Sara Vaca Read More »
Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor. I come today with my third post about Impostor Syndrome (doubting your accomplishments and feeling a constant fear of being exposed as a “fraud”), after the first one where I shared my experience with it and the second one asking for readers to …
Trying to Empower Female Evaluators To Stop Feeling Like Impostors by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor. Lesson Learned: I couldn’t anticipate when I volunteered to write some Saturdays for AEA365 what an amazing experience it would turn out to be for me because: It allows me to be myself and share my thoughts in a light tone about anything related …
Finding Out More About What Makes Us Feel Inadequate by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor. Lots has happened since my last post in February (a global pandemic for crying out loud), so I’ve been trying to find a timely topic, relevant to what we are all currently living, but I’m afraid I could not come up with one. Therefore, …
Fighting My (Unjustified) Impostor Syndrome by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and AEA365 frequent contributor, sharing another nugget about my adventures of being an evaluator. Deadlines for presenting proposals for two major evaluation conferences this year –AEA’s Evaluation 2020 and the European Evaluation Society (EES) 2020 Conference — approach, and as every year by this time, I’m in a sea …
Evaluation Conferences: To Go or Not To Go, That Is The Question by Sara Vaca Read More »
Happy last days of the year! My name is Sara Vaca, frequent Saturday contributor to this blog, and looking back at 2019 I’ve again realized how amazing my job as independent consultant can be – and how diverse my assignments have been this year! Lesson Learned 1: Since I became a consultant in 2013, every …
Realizing The Diversity Of My 2019 Evaluation-Related Assignments by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi AEA365 readers! I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor to this blog and while many of you will be coming back from AEA2019 (lucky you!), here I come with the results of the short-experiment-post of last month, where I collected data about evaluators’ reading speed. First of all, thanks for the …
Conclusions On Evaluators’ Reading Speed by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi AEA365 readers! I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor to this blog, and I am coming today with a short-experiment-post, aiming to collect data (about evaluators’ reading speed) and come back to you with the results. It all started some days ago when I was finally reading Kylie Hutchinson’s book A …
Reading Speed And Evaluation by Sara Vaca Read More »
Dear AEA365 readers, hi! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor to this blog. I feel so lucky as I’m in the middle of a new assignment as facilitator to develop Theories of Change (ToCs): my first long ToC assignment was in 2017 for UNICEF Indonesia. And now I am working with the …
