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Sheila B. Robinson on Theory of Change vs Logic Model – A LinkedIn Discussion

I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. You’ve probably read about AEA’s LinkedIn page for fabulous free discussion about anything evaluation. Today, I want to highlight one particular discussion that has sparked a good deal of participation from a diverse group of evaluators. Terminology has always been a sticky point for …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Suzanne Andrews and Shaun Ferris on Farmbook

Greetings from Catholic Relief Services (CRS)! We, Suzanne Andrews and Shaun Ferris, from the Baltimore-based Agriculture and Livelihoods Program, presented at the American Evaluation Association’s Annual Conference in Washington DC on a Farmbook suite of on/off line tools to help us to better build capacity, gather data and develop business plans with smallholder farmers. Lesson …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Marianna Hensley on Beware the Lure of Real-time Data!

Hi, my name is Marianna Hensley, Program Quality Manger for Health with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in India. I currently support the Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) project that CRS implements in partnership with Dimagi, Inc. and Vatsalya. The ReMiND project works with government community health workers (CHW) to improve the frequency and quality …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Shenkut Ayele on Early Warning and Response System Innovation through SMS in Ethiopia

Hi, my name is Shenkut Ayele, Early Warning Assessment and Response Manager with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for the Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) in Ethiopia. JEOP is a USAID-funded emergency food assistance program that over two years is providing food aid to almost 1 million people. The program operates across Ethiopia and is a partnership …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Or Dashevsky on Sierra Leone Malaria Indicator Survey

Hi, my name is Or Dashevsky, Chief Solution Architect for Catholic Relief Services based in Baltimore. I’m responsible for providing technical leadership to a team who develop CRS’ enterprise architecture. Malaria is endemic in Sierra Leone, with stable and perennial transmission in all parts of the country. As such, the entire population is at risk …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Mike Matarasso on Some Lessons Learned While Building and Rolling Out a Global M&E/ICT Platform

Hi! My name is Mike Matarasso and I’m responsible for leading the design, testing and global roll out of a Monitoring and Evaluation / Information Communication Technology (M&E/ICT) platform for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The platform will help us gather timely and high quality data to track performance across the agency, to inform change at …

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ICT4D for MEAL week: Guy Sharrock on Transforming the Way we Work

Hi, my name is Guy Sharrock. I work in a small team of advisors working for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) responsible for improving the quality of the agency’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) activities. CRS is working to improve the lives of individuals in over 90 countries. CRS views the rapid expansion of cellular …

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Sheila B Robinson on Checking out Literature in AEA’s Public eLibrary

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Today, I want to remind you about a fabulous resource for evaluation-related content – the AEA Public eLibrary. I’ve always been impressed with this organization’s generous offering of evaluation resources to members and non-members alike, and the Public eLibrary is one of my …

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Cultural Competence Week: Blake Pearson on Just Good Evaluation: Conversations with Evaluators about Culturally Responsive Evaluation

Hello, I’m Blake Pearson, a doctoral student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I am a part of a subgroup compiling supplemental materials (annotated bibliography, links, favorites) for the AEA website. Today, I’d like …

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Cultural Competence Week: Lisa Aponte-Soto and Leah Christina Neubauer on Increasing the AEA Latino/a Visibility and Scholarship

We are Lisa Aponte-Soto and Leah Christina Neubauer from Chicago.  Aponte-Soto teaches at DePaul University, is an independent consultant in the areas of cultural competency, Latino/a health, and diversity talent management; and, a member of the Graduate Diversity Internship Program (GEDI) 2009-2010 cohort. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program and is the current President …

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