My name is Diego Escobar and I am Director of Institutional Development at Jalisco’s Ministry of Culture. We recently hosted an event that was part of CLEAR-LA’s Evaluation Week Mexico 2016. We were very excited to be part of the program. We took the opportunity to ignite discussion and bring together experts from what sometimes …
My name is Jessica Zulawski and I am passionate about evaluating educational interventions and teaching others about how to effectively use program evaluation to strengthen organizational effectiveness. I currently work as the Data and Evaluate Associate at Broome Street Academy and as Senior Evaluation Trainer at Evaluate for Change. In both of my roles, I …
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Happy holiday weekend everyone! I’m Liz Zadnik, AEA365 Outreach Coordinator with another post on accessibility – today we’ll be focusing on web accessibility. We can build off of the concepts in last month’s post, while also thinking about how to make sure as many people as possible can access our online content. In addition to …
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Hello AEA365 readers! I’m Kate S. McCleary, Ph.D., researcher and evaluator at The LEAD Center within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On March 11th, my colleagues and I gathered for an office retreat to discuss our work as a Center and also to share themes in evaluation that are …
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Hi, I am Priya Alvarez, a feminist evaluator working at UN Women. During the past 12 months, I worked on an evaluation combining feminist and systems thinking approaches with Katrina Rojas/Universalia, Annalise Moser and Bob Williams. The evaluation assessed UN Women’s contribution to UN system coordination on gender equality and the empowerment of women (GEEW). …
I’m Rita Fierro from Fierro Consulting and I specialize in working with vulnerable populations in a more inclusive way. An inclusive conversation is one in which differences in perspectives are leveraged as opportunities instead of threats or ignored. Lessons Learned: To suggest to a client that a gender-responsive evaluation or an inclusive facilitation process is needed (along gender, race, ethnic, …
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Hi there! I’m Michael Bamberger and I have worked on gender evaluation with civil society, UN, foundations, and bilateral donor agencies. The longer you work in this field, the more you recognize the complexity of the processes and outcomes you are trying to understand. There is growing recognition that many development programs are complex. They …
Hi readers! I am Kelly Grace and have been working in gender equity in education in Cambodia through the Lehigh University and Caring for Cambodia (CFC) partnership. In 2014 our team in the department of Comparative and International Education at Lehigh University conducted an evaluation of the Gender Equity program at CFC schools in Siem …
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I am Svetlana Negroustoueva, chair of the Feminist TIG and an expert in gender-responsive M&E of international development projects across sectors. I believe that M&E is an underutilized vehicle to enrich knowledge on gender and vulnerability issues. Gender-responsive M&E processes are important for ensuring that targets are met and outcomes and impacts can be assessed …
Happy Saturday folks! Liz Zadnik here and today we’re focusing on creating accessible content. I am pretty passionate about accessibility – thanks to some brilliant and even more passionate colleagues – and believe as social change agents, advocates for marginalized communities, and professionals seeking to elevate unheard voices we have a commitment to making sure …
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