Hello, my name is Sue Hamann. I work at the National Institutes of Health as a Science Evaluation Officer, and I teach program evaluation to graduate students. Today I’m providing tips to novices in needs assessment (NA). Hot Tips: Use the original definition of needs. The original definition of NA is the measurement of the …
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I’m Ryan Watkins, Associate Professor at George Washington University and manager of two websites, www.WeShareScience.com and www.NeedsAssessment.org. Needs assessments require planning. You must plan for the “who, what, why, where, when, and how” of each step – from soliciting participation of stakeholder groups to the iterative development of grounded recommendations. An overlooked planning task involves …
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My name is Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (available free here). This week’s blog postings are from members of the Needs Assessment TIG. Check out our …
Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, and I have some questions for you today! Hot Tip: Poke around AEA’s website (or go directly to this link under the “Learning” tab) and you’ll find some fabulous trivia about the annual conference. For instance… 1.) Who was president of AEA in …
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Hi! We are Kathryn Sielbeck-Mathes and Rebecca Selove, co-authors of Chapter 6 of “Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice”. In our article, based on three evaluations of substance abuse treatment programs for individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues, we discuss the importance of framing and shared understanding between evaluators and evaluation stakeholders. …
Hi! We are Silvia Salinas Mulder and Fabiola Amariles, co-authors of Chapter 9 of “Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice”. Our article examines the fact that in our region, understanding and accepting gender mainstreaming as an international mandate is still slow and even decreasing in some political and cultural contexts, where the indigenous agenda and …
Bismillah! My name is Tristi Nichols, and with an advanced degree from Cornell University, I have been continuously involved in a wide-ranging evaluation practice over the past fifteen years. In my area of work – the international development arena – I find that I am frequently asked to evaluate the extent to which gender inequity …
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Hi! This is Michael Bamberger, an Independent Consultant specializing in the evaluation of social development and gender programs. Over the past few years I have worked with United Nations organizations, bi-lateral programs and NGOs helping strengthen their evaluations of their gender equity policies. Most international development agencies have now defined the promotion of gender equality …
Hi, I’m Katherine Hay. I’ve spent the last 20 years in India working on development, research, and evaluation. Lessons Learned: One thing I’ve learned, and say all the time is, “equity is not an intervention.” In societies where equity is the driving goal, perhaps fairly straightforward evaluations of interventions can increase equity. In such societies …
Greetings from South Africa. I am Donna Podems, a Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University, and founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa. As a practitioner and academic, I often engage in discussions around evaluation theory and practice. One common discussion is around the …
