Happy Saturday everyone! I’m Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator. I have a bit of a confession to make, I may have set too high of a bar with myself – I expected to share reflections from each of the books on my reading list last year. Definitely missed the mark. I’m disappointed in myself, but …
Hello from DME for Peace! I’m Ella Duncan, Project Manager of the DME for Peace knowledge sharing platform, managed by Search for Common Ground. Founded in 2011, DME for Peace is an online community dedicated to the collection and curation of the scattered information, evaluation projects, tools, templates, and knowledge on Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation …
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What a way to wrap up July! Liz Zadnik here with some additional thoughts on accessibility – specifically how we can create learning opportunities that are inclusive and accessible to as many people as possible. We’re often tasked with sharing our research and evaluation findings with others – how can we make sure as many …
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We are Anne Gienapp and Sarah Stachowiak from ORS Impact, a consulting firm that helps organizations use data and evaluation to strengthen their impact, especially in hard-to-measure systems change efforts. Ten years ago, when the field of advocacy and policy change was first coalescing, a number of excellent field building publications helped make the case …
Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, President and CEO of BLE Solutions, LLC. We offer evaluation, applied research and technology services to help organizations increase their effectiveness and contribute to better outcomes. I specialize in global advocacy, peacebuilding and strategic evaluation. A tremendous challenge in advocacy evaluation is identifying links between advocacy activities and changes in people’s …
Hello, I’m Oscar Espinosa from Community Science . We recently evaluated the effectiveness of professional development programs in various sectors that seek to diversify their leadership or workforce to be more responsive to communities of color. Hot Tips Specify what program effectiveness means–to all stakekholders! A program’s intended objectives are oftentimes skewed to the perspective …
Hello, we are Kat Athanasiades and Johanna Morariu from Innovation Network, an evaluation firm that works with philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, especially those engaged in advocacy. Advocacy evaluation has been a difficult field to generate shareable lessons. Many organizations and campaigns are concerned that sharing their “secrets” (information usually divulged in evaluation reports such as …
Hello! We are Rhonda Schlangen (US), Julie Tumbo (Tanzania), and Ben Awinda (Tanzania), evaluation consultants specializing in advocacy and development. In Tanzania and other countries, civil society advocates struggle with developing skills and finding support for their efforts. We’re using the dissemination phase of an evaluation of three groundbreaking Tanzanian advocacy campaigns to support advocate …
Welcome to the Advocacy and Policy Change (APC) TIG week on AEA365! I’m Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group and co-chair of the TIG. Our TIG is celebrating our 10-year anniversary at this fall’s AEA conference. This week’s blog posts share some of the great insights gained regarding evaluation’s role in advocacy work …
Hi, our names are Lauren Spigel, Korinne Chiu, and Emma Sunnassee. We are from VaxTrac, a global health nonprofit that builds, implements and evaluates a mobile vaccine registry system for developing health systems. Our collective backgrounds are in evaluation, global health and mobile health (mHealth). mHealth is an emerging field that takes advantage of the …
