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Three Top Tips for SDG Evaluations by Dorothy Lucks

Hello, AEA365 community. My name is Dorothy Lucks, an inaugural member of EVALSDGs, a credentialed evaluator, a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society, and Executive Director of Sustainable Development Facilitation (SDF) Global, a social enterprise that works to facilitate change through evaluations. At SDF Global, we have a strong focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Applying Intersectionality to Program Theory: Gender-Based Violence & Violence Against Women by Vidhya Shanker

Vidhya Shanker here, from Rainbow Research. Previously, I explained intersectionality—despite cooptation by contemporary organizations vying for funding—as a centuries-old concept borne from subjugated knowledge and liberation struggles as valuable for situation analyses. Today, I examine intersectionality’s value in relation to certain dimensions of program theory.

Overcoming underrepresentation of Women in Remote Data Collection by Jess Littman

Hi! I’m Jess Littman, MSc in M&E candidate at American University and Evaluation Associate at Educate!, a social enterprise which works to prepare youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We’re running a series of internal evaluations of our new distance learning models. These were piloted in Uganda, initially in response to COVID-19 and school closures, and are now growing into a scalable, sustainable way for thousands of youth to participate in remote skills training. The main vector for both youth participation and data collection is the mobile phone, and a major design and evaluation challenge so far has been the gender gap in mobile phone access.

Insights into Academic and Practitioner Efforts to Improve Solutions for Women and Girls by Tanyel Taysi and Salome Tsereteli-Stephens

We are Tanyel Taysi and Salome Tsereteli-Stephens from the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative. One of the programs our organization leads is Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), Grameen Foundation, and Search for Common Ground (Search).

Our Individual and Collective Liberation is Connected – so Let’s Connect! by Melissa Chapman Haynes

Greetings! This is Melissa Chapman Haynes, program chair for the Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG. This week, we are elevating posts that center gender equity, aligned with the 2024 International Women’s Day. We are striving to build a TIG membership and feminist content that is inclusive of and elevates and intersects with race, gender, and …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: Identifying Needs and Assets Using GIS by Madhawa Palihapitiya

Hi! My name is Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya. I am an evaluator, researcher, and lecturer at UMass Boston and the Principal Investigator on an evaluation of a set of mediation programs aiming to increase access to justice in Massachusetts. I’m sharing information on how to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in assessing needs and assets.