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Logic Models Week: Michele Tarsilla on Beyond an Acritical use of Logic Models in International and cross-cultural context: The “Translation” role of facilitators and capacity development specialists

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 24, 2015 March 24, 2015

My name is Michele Tarsilla (@MiEval_TuEval) and I am a transformative evaluator with a focus on capacity development in international and cross-cultural settings. Having worked in 30 countries, I have become aware of the detached -and somewhat cynical- attitude that grantees organizations have towards their funder’s requirement for developing and using logic models (see the table …

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Logic Models Week: Debra Smith and Galen Ellis on How Logic Models Can Be Used to Develop Evaluation Systems

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 23, 2015 March 21, 2015

We are Debra Smith and Galen Ellis, two evaluators who discovered through AEA that we share a common method of using logic models to facilitate systems thinking with our clients. Many people think logic models are a complicated exercise with little value. Some are downright cynical, saying they tend to represent “a tenuous chain of …

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Logic Models Week: Tom Chapel on How Logic Models Can Be a Strategic Planning Tool

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 22, 2015 March 21, 2015

I’m Tom Chapel. My “day job” is Chief Evaluation Officer at the CDC where I help our programs/ partners with evaluation and strategic planning. I took on both roles because large organizations do strategic planning and evaluation in different silos, even though both silos start with “who are we?” “what are we trying to accomplish?” …

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Veronica Olazabal on Measuring the “Parts” and “Sum of Parts” in Poverty Alleviation: Lessons Learned

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 20, 2015 March 18, 2015

Hi, Veronica Olazabal, with the Rockefeller Foundation here. Having worked in the international development sector for some time and driven by the belief that evaluation is a bridge to effective poverty solutions, assessment of integrated development programs is a passion of mine. At Nuru, a social venture that aims to eradicate poverty in remote rural …

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Wendy Tackett on Camp iEval

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 19, 2015 March 15, 2015

I’m Wendy Tackett, the president of iEval, part-time faculty at Western Michigan University, and a blogger at Carpe Diem: Make Your Evaluations Useful. I want to share about a fun way we get our evaluation clients engaged in evaluation…we call it Camp iEval! The purpose of Camp iEval is to bring evaluation clients together who …

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Lisa Melchior on Developing, Sharing, and Storing Lessons Learned from Evaluations

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 18, 2015 March 15, 2015

Hi, I’m Lisa Melchior, President of The Measurement Group LLC, a consulting firm focused on the evaluation of health and social services for at-risk and vulnerable populations. In response to Sheila B. Robinson’s recent post that reported what AEA 365 readers said they want to see in 2015, I’m writing about developing, sharing, and storing …

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John Cosgrove on Questions & People Drive Continuous Improvement

5 Comments / Uncategorized / March 17, 2015 March 15, 2015

I’m John Cosgrove, an evaluator who is committed to utilization-focused evaluation. I am currently working with community colleges around the country to improve evaluation efforts and the use of data for continuous improvement. Clients indicate they want evaluation and data to drive continuous improvement and decision-making. Although a good place to start, data collection alone …

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Jindra Cekan on Rolling the Dice; Impact or Self-Sustainability?

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 16, 2015 March 15, 2015

AEA365 Valuing Voices impact vs self-sustainability trade off submission – Hi, I am Jindra Cekan, PhD of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting LLC. I have been roaming around international development projects since 1988. Lesson Learned: What’s likely to ‘stand’ after we go? A new consideration in project design and evaluation Last spring I had the …

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Sara Vaca on Using Creativity to Design a Meta-evaluation Dashboard

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 15, 2015 March 15, 2015

Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. I started with this post (link) observing where and how evaluation can use a dash of creativity, and now I’m going to share my experience using creativity to better understand evaluation. After my first AEA conference in Washington D.C. (October 2013), …

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Sheila B Robinson on For the Love (or hate) of Pi(e)

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 14, 2015 March 14, 2015

Happy Pi Day! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. If you had an internet browser open to this site today, 3.14.15 at precisely 9:26:53 am (EST) looking for today’s post to be about Pi Day, then you probably know that today is a particularly prodigious Pi Day as we have …

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