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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López on Creating “Enabling Environments” for Monitoring & Evaluation

We are Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López from the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America, proud members of the CLEAR Initiative. Would you recognize an “enabling environment” if you “saw” it?  The enabling environment concept is very popular among professionals in evaluation. But what does it mean?   How you create and cultivate this kind of …

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CLEAR Week: Boubacar Aw on Evaluation Capacity Building in Francophone Africa: Development of teaching materials through training of trainers (TOT)

I am Boubacar Aw, Coordinator of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) for Francophone Africa hosted at Centre Africain d’Etudes Superieures en Gestion (CESAG) in Senegal, Dakar. I am writing today to offer practical tips on how to develop teaching materials through a Training of Trainers (ToT) model. These tips are …

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CLEAR Week: Gemma Stevenson on Building M&E Skills and Knowledge: Lessons from Pakistan

Hello – My name is Gemma Stevenson. I am Associate Director for the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) where we run rigorous research projects and deliver evaluation trainings as part of CLEAR South Asia. So what have we learnt over the last three years delivering trainings on M&E to the Pakistani government and …

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CLEAR Week: Tim Clynick on Beyond Rhetoric: Africa’s National Evaluation Movement

Tim Clynick, Acting Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results in Anglophone Africa, (University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ghana Institute of Public Administration and the Kenya School of Government) Greetings from CLEAR Anglophone Africa! We are often asked where our programme – now in its third year – is having the …

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CLEAR Week: Diva Dhar and Urmy Shukla on Designing Courses for M&E Capacity Building: Lessons from South Asia

We are Diva Dhar (Program Director) and Urmy Shukla (Capacity Building Manager) at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, based at J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. We work to strengthen M&E skills in South Asia, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. As part of our work, …

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CLEAR Week: Zhao Min on Introducing CLEAR Week and Performance Management Systems – A Growth Area for the International Evaluation Community

I’m Zhao Min, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center (AFDC) in Shanghai, China. AFDC is a member of the CLEAR Initiative and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. If you follow what is happening in international evaluation capacity building (ECB), you might have heard about CLEAR – the Regional Centers for Learning …

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Julie Carpineto and Kelly Washburn on Using a Creative Evaluation Project to Engage Youth

Greetings to the aea365 community.  We are Kelly Washburn and Julie Carpineto from The Institute for Community Health in Cambridge, MA.  We are the local evaluators of an urban high school-based teen pregnancy prevention program in Greater Boston. We would like to share an example of a creative evaluation project developed with this program. Over 90 high students participated in …

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Fred Nickols on Simplified Strategic Planning

Hello, I am Fred Nickols, a consultant, writer, former executive, and currently Managing Partner of Distance Consulting LLC.  I fancy myself a toolmaker to knowledge workers and part of that involves eliminating unnecessary complexity.  Nowhere is that more needed than in strategic planning. The topic of strategic planning is an absolute quagmire of competing and …

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Linda Cabral and Jillian Richard-Daniels on Using Qualitative Data Collection to Better Understand Measure Development and Reporting

Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Jillian Richard-Daniels from the Center for Health Policy and Research at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Collecting and reporting data on a set of predefined measures is something that many evaluators are asked to do.  This typically quantitative process involves gathering data, often from multiple sources and stakeholders, to …

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Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, Brandi Villa and Shelly Engelman on Analysis of Retrospective Surveying

Hi!  This is Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, and Brandi Villa with SageFox Consulting Group, a privately owned evaluation firm with offices in Amherst, MA and Atlanta, GA, and Shelly Engelman with the School District of Philadelphia. Today we’d like to share results of a recent survey analysis. Lessons Learned: Retrospective vs. Traditional Surveying Evaluators typically implement …

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