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Sean Owen and Teresa Doksum on Data Security on a Shoestring Budget

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 17, 2014

Hi, We are Sean Owen and Teresa Doksum from the Abt Associates Institutional Review Board (IRB).  Sean is an information security expert and Director of Abt’s Client Cybersecurity Center. Teresa is a health services researcher and chair of the IRB. We review large-scale evaluations of government programs in the fields of health, education, social welfare, …

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Debi Lang and Sharon Grundel on Youth Program Ingredients: How to Measure Success and Tell the Story

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / March 16, 2014

We are Debi Lang and Sharon Grundel, with the Massachusetts Area Health Education Center Network (MassAHEC) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. MassAHEC supports health career exploration programs for diverse youth. Through four community-based AHEC Centers and 19 chapters of HOSA – Future Health Professionals (a national student-led …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Evaluating Immigrant Workers Centers

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 16, 2014

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, a private consultant on health services research.  In a recent study, my colleague Lee Staples (Boston University) and I explored Immigrant Workers Centers (IWCs), community-based organizations that have been developed in the United States to promote and protect workers’ rights through support, services, advocacy, and organizing initiatives.  We examined how IWCs …

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APC TIG Week: Lisa Hilt on Yes, it can be that simple! Value for Money analyses in policy advocacy and campaigns

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 9, 2014

Hi! I’m Lisa Hilt, a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam. We strive for policy changes that will right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. Much of our progress takes place in small steps forward, resulting from ongoing engagement with key stakeholders and multiple campaign spikes (high intensity, short-term …

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APC TIG Week: Carlisle Levine on Using Contribution Analysis to Explore Causal Relationships in Advocacy and Policy Change

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 9, 2014

Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in advocacy, peacebuilding and strategic evaluation. I led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. A big challenge in advocacy evaluation, because of the many factors that influence policy change and the time it takes for change to come about, is drawing causal …

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APC TIG Week: Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj on Small Picture, Big Picture: Using the Framework for Public Policy Advocacy in a Large-Scale Advocacy Campaign

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Data Visualization and Reporting / March 9, 2014

Hello evaluation world! We are Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj from Innovation Network. This might sound familiar: you are given hundreds of pages of grant documents to make sense of. You are left wondering, “Where do I start?” We were recently tasked with guiding evaluation for a funder’s national advocacy campaign, and had to make …

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APC TIG Week: Jewlya Lynn on Evaluations of Public Will-Building Strategies

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 9, 2014

I’m Jewlya Lynn, CEO at Spark Policy Institute, where we combine policy work with real-time evaluations of advocacy, field building, collective impact, and systems building to achieve sustainable, meaningful change. While advocacy evaluation as a field has developed tools and resources that are practical and appropriate for advocacy, it has done little to figure out …

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APC TIG Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Monitoring and Evaluation for Human Rights Organizations

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 12, 2014

Hello! My name is Rhonda Schlangen and I’m an evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and development. By sharing struggles and strategies, evaluators and human rights organizations can help break down the conceptual, capacity and cultural barriers to using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to support human rights work. In this spirit, three human rights organizations candidly …

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APC TIG Week: Anna Williams on the Broad Relevance of Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 8, 2014

Hello!  My name is Anna Williams. I provide evaluation, facilitation, and learning services for social change organizations and BHAG initiatives.  (BHAGS, for those unfamiliar with this highly technical term, refers to Big Hairy Audacious Goals.) I would like to encourage you to consider whether methods used to evaluated advocacy efforts are relevant to your work, …

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Best of aea365: Sheila B. Robinson on Joining the aea365 Author Community

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 8, 2014

Greetings aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator of my favorite evaluation blog, aea365. As I’ve written many times before, I’ve claimed the title of “aea365’s biggest fan.” Not only have I been an avid reader myself, but a frequent contributor as well. In fact, my first piece of published writing was indeed an aea365 …

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