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ICCE TIG Week: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Approaches in Evaluation Practice by Liudmila Mikhailova

Hi, I am Liudmila Mikhailova, an evaluation practitioner with 28 years of experience designing, managing, and evaluating U.S. government foreign assistance/diplomacy programs with fieldwork in 25 countries. I also teach two George Washington University’s International Education Program courses: International Program Evaluation and International Program Design. The last decade has witnessed a significant effort in the …

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ICCE TIG Week: Evaluating Sustainability: How Do We Measure Up? by Jindra Cekan/ova

Welcome to sustainability! I’m Jindra Cekan/ova, 30+ years in global development, founder of Valuing Voices, Sustainable Solutions for Excellent Impact. There is a compelling need to prove international projects and programs are as sustainable and long-term as we promise.  However, evaluators of foreign aid during project implementation have a very limited set of tools with …

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ICCE TIG Week: Localization: How Do We Do This Well? by Lisa Frantzen

Hi, I’m Lisa Frantzen, Senior Consultant, Evaluation and Learning at TCC Group. I work with foundations, NGOs, and companies to strengthen their practices to use evaluation with a learning mindset. Over the last few years, I’ve worked with more and more clients that are asking questions about how they can shift power and leadership of …

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ICCE TIG Week: Ensuring Child Rights in Program Evaluation by Dawn Pauls

Hello! I’m Dawn Pauls, a program evaluator living in Saint Paul, MN.  This blog post is adapted from my final paper in a recent course in International Development Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota. Designing innovative evaluation methods for determining to what extent the world’s most vulnerable children are assured of their human rights could help …

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ICCE TIG Week: The Self-Reliance Index: Supporting the Self-Reliance of Displaced Persons Through Data by Amy Gray, Ned Meerdink, and Simar Singh

Hi! We are Amy Gray, Senior Program Officer For Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Ned Meerdink, Senior Programs Officer, and Simar Singh, Senior Programs Manager at RefugePoint, an international organization advancing lasting solutions for at-risk refugees, and supporting the humanitarian community to do the same. According to UNHCR’s 2022 Global Appeal, the number of forcibly …

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ICCE TIG Week: AEA’s International Working Group and the International Evaluation Ecosystem by Lisa Frantzen, Amy Jersild, and Scott Chaplowe

Hi, we are Lisa Frantzen, Amy Jersild, and Scott Chaplowe, and we are members of AEA’s International Working Group (IWG). The IWG advises AEA’s Executive Director on international issues and policies that affect international members and conference participants. The IWG is comprised of evaluators who work and live in various parts of the globe, are involved …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: Five Must Read Articles on Needs Assessment by Ryan Watkins

I’m Ryan Watkins, Professor at George Washington University. Today’s article is a re-post, with updated links, of a 2012 AEA365 post. Lessons Learned: Get familiar with needs assessment literature. Even if you only occasionally conduct needs assessments, it is important to be aware of the research literature that supports your theories, processes, and tools. I’ve …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: Benjamin Franklin’s Advice in Decision Making by Maurya West Meiers

I’m Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group as a Senior Evaluation Officer working on the Global Evaluation Initiative.  I’m also coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (free World Bank book). Last year I wrote an AEA365 post on decision-making resources for your needs …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: Letting Your Needs Assessment Skills Shine by Sue Hamann

Hello and Welcome to our TIG’s AEA365 sponsored week.  My name is Sue Hamann.  I have worked as an Evaluator for more than 40 years and am currently employed at the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist and Science Evaluation Officer.  My boss recently mentioned her interest in having a root cause analysis …

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Needs Assessment TIG Week: The Needs Assessment and Asset/Capacity Building Hybrid Model by Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung

Hi, I am Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, Director of Evaluation and Assessment at the Center on Health Disparities, Virginia Commonwealth University. I will briefly summarize key points of the needs assessment (NA) and asset/capacity building (A/CB) hybrid model. NA and A/CB are two different, oppositional schools of thought. In 2014 Altschuld and colleagues noted a new …

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