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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Designing and Implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Initiatives through an Evaluative Lens by Malachi Rice, Chelsie White, Gizelle Gopez, and Roman Mitchell

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / February 8, 2023

Hi! We are Malachi, Chelsie, Gizelle, and Roman, data science and evaluation specialists withDeloitte Consulting LLP. While working on a project pertaining to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), we realized the impact and benefit that an evaluator’s perspective can have in the DEIA strategic planning process. All too often, in the context of DEIA …

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Health Evaluation TIG Week: Social Media Scanning and Analysis: A Strategy to Rapidly Gain Insight into Current and Emerging Trends by Jenica Reed, John Zimmerman, and Brian Geoghagan

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / February 4, 2023

Hello! We are Jenica Reed, John Zimmerman, and Brian Geoghagan, evaluation and data specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We often discuss with colleagues and clients how to better use technology to improve the quality and efficiency of data gathered, to better inform timely action. Leveraging existing and publicly available data is also often part of …

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Celebrating Black History Month: The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation, Part 2 by Vidhya Shanker

Leave a Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / February 4, 2023

Vidhya Shanker of Minneapolis here, with another attempt to repair the miseducation of evaluators regarding the contributions of women of color and indigenous women, particularly their understanding of systemic oppression, to evaluation’s history. Today I highlight Dr. Kien Lee, Principal Associate/Vice President of Community Science. Lee has advanced not just a structural analysis, but also a systems-oriented analysis of racial oppression.

Celebrating Black History Month: The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation by Vidhya Shanker

Leave a Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / February 14, 2023

I’m Vidhya Shanker from Rainbow Research, where we are exploring what structural change really means. I’m sometimes asked, “Why are there so few people of color in evaluation?” I flip the question: “Why is evaluation so white?” And answer: “Because our labor is actively erased.”

Social Impact Measurement TIG Week: Collecting Better Gender Data from Businesses in Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMICs): How Evaluators Can Help Close the Evidence Gap of Financial Returns by Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi

Leave a Comment / Social Impact Measurement / December 29, 2022

Hi, we are Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi from the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) and Ben Fowler from MarketShare Associates (MSA). Gender-lens investing deploys capital in women-owned, -led, and -forward companies and gender integration into business functions and has many documented benefits: However, these benefits come with a price tag, whether through technical …

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