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IPE TIG Week: Rooting Evaluation in Hawaiian Culture by Kinohi Fukumitsu, Debbie Gowensmith, and Niegel Rozet

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / September 30, 2024

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 …

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IPE TIG Week: Personalizing Privilege & Accompanying Indigenous Peoples by Christopher Hall

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / September 30, 2024

“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 …

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IPE TIG Week: Working in Tribal Communities as a non-Indigenous Evaluator by Corrie Whitmore

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / September 30, 2024

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 …

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IPE TIG Week: Poetry in Motion: Using Arts to Shake Up Evaluation and Reflect Deeply! by Gladys Rowe

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / September 30, 2024

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 …

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IPE TIG Week: A Short Reflection on the Positionality and Creation of an Indigenous Evaluator – Dr. Nicky Bowman. A short summary of Dr. Bowman’s work by January O’Connor

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / September 30, 2024

About the Author, January O’Connor: I am Tlingit and Alaska born and raised. I am a Founding Director of Raven’s Group LLC, a consulting group that provides services in program planning and design, grant writing, education and youth programming, and evaluation. I’m currently in my final years of my PhD journey in Indigenous Studies and …

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DRG TIG Week: Using Ripple Effects Mapping and Most Significant Change to capture nuanced results and contributing factors in DG Programs by Karen Chen, Dylan Diggs, and Pragati Godbole

1 Comment / Democracy, Human Rights and Governance / September 2, 2024

Hello All! We are Karen Chen (Independent Consultant), Dylan Diggs (Contractor to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Global Programs’ Applied Learning and Evaluation DRL/GP/ALE team in the U.S. Department of State) and Pragati Godbole (EnCompass LLC). Under a DRL contract with Encompass, LLC, we collaborated for the past three years …

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DRG TIG Week: Evaluation-informed Adaptation: Navigating Tradeoffs by Bret Barrowman

Leave a Comment / Democracy, Human Rights and Governance / August 29, 2024

I am Bret Barrowman, and I manage evaluation and research projects for IRI, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advances democracy around the world. USAID, a major funder of our work, released a new policy for democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) assistance, including a commitment to four key principles, two of which are related to …

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DRG TIG Week: The evolving landscape of global governance: Use of evaluation in addressing inequities and power imbalances by Amy Jersild and Michael Harnar

Leave a Comment / Democracy, Human Rights and Governance / August 29, 2024

Greetings, we are Amy Jersild, PhD candidate, and Michael Harnar, Assistant Professor, from Western Michigan University. We have been thinking about ways to use evaluation to address inequities and imbalances of power within global governance, a term used to characterize systems of decision-making among international actors.  A significant trend since the early 2000s is the …

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DRG TIG Week: Improving Governance and Service Delivery: Empowering Sub-National Governments for Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness in Nigeria by Awuor Ponge and Irene Karimi

Leave a Comment / Democracy, Human Rights and Governance / August 29, 2024

We are Awuor Ponge and Irene Karimi. Awuor Ponge is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the African Policy Centre (APC), and serves as the Vice-President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA). Irene Karimi is the Chief of Party of the USAID-funded State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity in Nigeria, implemented by DAI Global …

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DRG TIG Week: Promoting Social Inclusion and Gender Equity in DRG Programming through Monitoring & Evaluation by Yana Ropaieva, Marian Ware, Ramsey Rodriguez, Alyson Kozma, and Marcia Mundt

1 Comment / Democracy, Human Rights and Governance / August 29, 2024

Happy International Day of Democracy! We are Yana Ropaieva, Marian Ware, Ramsey Rodriguez, Alyson Kozma, and Marcia Mundt from the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (IMEL) working group. We are excited that USAID’s new Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) Policy emphasizes inclusion as the first of …

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