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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
My name is Linda Stern, Global Director for Design, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (DMEL) at the National Democratic Institute. I’m also the Evaluation Lead for the Fundamental Freedoms Fund (FFF), a consortium of nine leading INGOs dedicated to advancing democracy, human rights and governance through a rapid response democracy assistance mechanism. Challenges of Rapid Response …
Hi, I am Jeanette Asencio Tocol, Senior MEL Manager of EarthRights International and the current co-chair of the Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG) Topical Interest Group. I am so proud to be introducing the DRG week blogs. The DRG TIG is founded on the shared principle of democracy (among others), which applies not only in …
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