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FIE/MME Week: Denise Seigart on Implementing a Feminist Evaluation of School Health Care

Greetings, I am Denise Seigart, Associate Dean for Nursing at Stvenson University. Like a great novel, a great feminist evaluation creates the conditions for learning and change, particularly for the benefit of women. In 2008-2009 I implemented a feminist evaluation to study school-based health care in the United States (U.S.), Canada, and Australia. In the …

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FIE/MME Week: Alessandra Galiè on Feminist Small N Evaluation

Hello! I am Alessandra Galiè, a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. From 2006 to 2011 I collaborated with a Participatory Plant Breeding programme coordinated at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to assess the impact of the programme on the empowerment of the newly involved women farmers …

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FIE/MME Week: Donna Podems on Applying Feminist Evaluation for Non-feminist Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / September 17, 2012 August 30, 2012

Hello, I am Donna Podems, founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa. We work with a wide range of international and local donors who fund a wide variety of technical interventions in areas such as environment, education, health, community development and human rights. …

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FIE/MME Week: Donna Mertens and Mika Yamashita on Co-hosting Mixed Methods Evaluation and Feminist Issues in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / September 16, 2012 September 22, 2012

Hello! We are Donna Mertens and Mika Yamashita, Chair and Program Chair of Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG. This week, we offer five posts written by Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG members. Why is the Mixed Methods TIG co-hosting this week with the Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG? Because this week’s posts touch upon issues associated …

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BLP Week: Tom Ward on Providing Project Leadership

1 Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 8, 2012 August 30, 2012

Howdy! I’m Tom Ward, and I am a faculty member of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In that capacity, I teach critical thinking, ethics, contracting, logistics, and “writing to persuade.” My passion, however, is knowledge management, and using KM to improve decision making. My tip today is about …

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BLP Week: Timothy Guetterman and Delwyn Harnisch on International Collaboration for Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 6, 2012 August 30, 2012

We are from the College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Timothy Guetterman, the doctoral student, and Delwyn Harnisch, the Professor. Mixed methods approaches can be useful in assessing needs and readiness to learn among professional workshop participants. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods can enhance triangulation and completeness of findings. We recently …

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BLP Week: A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali on Managing Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity in Corporate Settings

1 Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 5, 2012 August 30, 2012

Hello evaluators, my name is Sid Ali and I am Principal Consultant at Research and Evaluation Consulting. I do much of my work in education and training settings, and this often takes me into the corporate, environment. I have found that there is great benefit to both the evaluator and the client in using tried …

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BLP Week: Robin Kelly on Organizational Diagnosis and Mapping

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 4, 2012 August 30, 2012

Hi, I am Robin T. Kelley and am an internal evaluator at a national nonprofit health organization that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide free capacity building assistance to HIV prevention organizations, health departments and their HIV planning groups. In the HIV/AIDS field, there are a number of changes …

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BLP Week: Ellen Steiner on Energy Efficient Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 3, 2012 August 30, 2012

My name is Ellen Steiner, Director of Market Research and Evaluation at Energy Market Innovations, a research-based consultancy focused on strategic program design and evaluation for the energy efficiency industry – we work to create an energy future that is sustainable for coming generations. Lessons Learned: An increasingly common practice… In energy efficiency program evaluations, …

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BLP Week: Kate Rohrbaugh on Useful Topical Interest Group (TIG) Tools

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 2, 2012 August 30, 2012

My name is Kate Rohrbaugh and I am Co-Chair of the Business, Leadership, and Performance TIG along with Michelle Baron. I’m a Research Team Leader at a consulting firm in Virginia leading a group studying capital project organizations and teams in the process industries. Today I’d like to talk about the renaming of our TIG …

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