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2-for-1 Week: Sharron Corle and Krista Granger on Uniform Organizational Evaluation and Assessment

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 17, 2015

Hi! Sharron Corle, Associate Director for Workforce & Leadership Development and Krista Granger, Program Manager for Data & Assessment, on uniform organizational evaluation and assessment. We work for a small not-for-profit member association, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP), supporting maternal & child health professionals working in state public health agencies. Like …

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2-for-1 Week: Tiffany Woelfel on Social Media and ethics: the data is there, but do we have the right to use it?

1 Comment / Uncategorized / October 17, 2015

Hello fellow readers! I’m Tiffany Woelfel, MSW a graduate student in Public Health at the University of Washington with 15 years of research experience across a variety of fields. I am also the owner of Innovata Research Consulting where I do many things, including provide social media advice to nonprofits, government and healthcare organizations. I was …

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2-for-1 Week: Connie Viamonte onGet Connected! Embracing Technology in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 17, 2015

My name is Connie Viamonte and I am a Research and Evaluation Associate at Q-Q Research Consultants based out of Miami, Florida. Today I want to share some of our experiences utilizing new technologies. We’ve found that when we’re unafraid to try new things, technology is a valuable tool in the evaluation world. Most recently, …

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Liz Zadnik with her Fall Evaluation Reading List

1 Comment / Uncategorized / October 16, 2015

Greetings! Liz Zadnik here, your trusty Outreach Coordinator and Saturday contributor.  This post celebrates some of my favorite things: reading, autumn, and…lists!    Rad Resources: A personal goal of mine as I strive to be more confident and comfortable with my evaluation skills, is to develop a reading list each season (or every few months). …

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Feminist TIG Week: Ghada Jiha and Bessa Whitmore with The Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG offers an exciting range of panels, papers and posters from around the world

3 Comments / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / October 2, 2015

Hello! We are Ghada Jiha and Bessa Whitmore, Program Co-Chairs of the Feminist Issues in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (Feminist TIG). The TIG was established to highlight and promote feminist approaches in the field of evaluation. Feminist approaches acknowledge multiple perspectives and realities by examining the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality in the …

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Feminist TIG Week: Rituu Nanda and The story of gender and evaluation in an online community

1 Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / October 3, 2015

Hi, I am Rituu B Nanda and I work on M&E, community engagement, participatory action research and knowledge management. I work with multiple organisations like Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), Anti-Slavery International, and Constellation. I moderate an international online community of practice (CoP) – Gender and Evaluation – under ISST’s project “Engendering Policy through …

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Feminist TIG Week: Donna Mertens on Evaluation Strategies When Cultural Shifts Are the Goal

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / October 2, 2015

I am Donna Mertens, an independent consultant, hired by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to advise on the evaluation of an initiative funded in all 50 states and the US territories focused on the prevention of rape. Prevention programming consisted of educational programs for perpetrators and potential perpetrators. The prevention of rape involves a …

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Feminist TIG Week: Aysel Vazirova Using feminist approaches to evaluate violence against women and girls (VAWG) in humanitarian responses

2 Comments / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / October 6, 2015

I am Aysel Vazirova, PhD, an independent gender and development consultant. Recently, I completed an evaluation of a gender-based violence (GBV) program for Syrian refugee women and girls in Jordan, Lebanon, Northern Syria and Iraq. Evaluating humanitarian responses to violence against women and girl (VAWG) presents unique challenges. GBV in humanitarian settings occurs within a …

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Feminist TIG Week: Nicole Clark on Reflective Ways for Evaluators to Raise the Voices of Women and Girls of Color in Feminist Evaluation

1 Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / October 5, 2015

Hello! I’m Nicole Clark, a licensed social worker and independent evaluator, specializing in working with nonprofits and city agencies to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services specifically for women and girls of color. Women and girls of color face many intersectional issues connected to race and gender. When it comes to mainstream feminism, all …

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Feminist TIG Week: Michael Bamberger on The evaluation of 2015-2030 Sustainable Development Goals: a challenge and an opportunity for feminist evaluators and gender researchers

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / October 3, 2015

Hello, I’m Michael Bamberger. I have been working on gender issues since I prepared the Venezuela country gender assessment for the First Women’s World Conference in Mexico in 1974. I spent nine years with the Gender and Development Department of the World Bank and have had the good fortune to have consulted and taught gender …

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