Hey! I’m Sara Vaca, independent evaluator and part of the AEA365 team, eventual Saturday contributor. Some time ago, I ran into this framework for critical thinking and I thought it was interesting for evaluators. Rad Resource: The Six Thinking Hats is a system designed by Edward de Bono which describes a tool for group discussion …
AEA365 Curator note: Please enjoy this article, part of a 5-part miniseries on VOPEs – Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation. We, Gunter Rochow (coordinator, located in Canada), and Josette Arévalo (collaborator, located in Ecuador) are in the process of finalizing the Spanish version of the VOPE Toolkit (https://vopetoolkit.ioce.net/es) in collaboration with two other Spanish-speaking evaluators (Jennifer …
Latin American Perspectives on the VOPE Toolkit by Gunter Rochow and Josette Arévalo Read More »
AEA365 Curator note: Please enjoy this article, part of a 5-part miniseries on VOPEs – Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation. Hello everyone. I am Jennifer Bisgard, an evaluator based in South Africa. Over the last 25 years as an evaluator, I have been very involved in VOPEs. This includes my role as the founding chair of …
How VOPEs Support EvalAgenda2020 by Jennifer Bisgard Read More »
AEA365 Curator note: Please enjoy this article, part of a 5-part miniseries on VOPEs – Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation. Good day, evaluation colleagues. I am Benoît Gauthier, credentialed evaluator. I am based in Quebec, Canada, where I have practiced evaluation for three decades. I have been and remain involved in the associative life of the …
Evaluating in French: the “Réseau Francophone de l’évaluation” by Benoît Gauthier Read More »
AEA365 Curator note: Please enjoy this article, part of a 5-part miniseries on VOPEs – Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation. Dagsê, Sanibonani, Mhoroi! My name is Benita Williams and I work as an evaluation consultant in Southern Africa. I mostly evaluate education, leadership development and ICT4D interventions. I’m a former AfrEA board member and a founding …
How Can You Help to Establish, Institutionalize, and Grow a VOPE? by Benita Williams Read More »
AEA365 Curator note: Please enjoy this article, part of a 5-part miniseries on VOPEs – Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation. Greetings, fellow evaluators. I’m Jim Rugh, member of AEA since the merger in 1986; now retired after an active career involved in evaluation at international levels. That included being the AEA Representative to the IOCE (International …
What Are VOPEs? And How Do They Relate To Us As Evaluators? by Jim Rugh Read More »
Hi, I’m Sara Vaca, independent evaluator working in international development evaluation, helping Sheila curate this blog and being a Saturday contributor, and I want to share with you a short reflection on something that is bugging me lately. Conducting an evaluation is a process: a rich, participatory, multi-partner, multidimensional process, that has to be later …
Hi, I’m Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy support and conduct evaluations with social justice funders and NGOs in South Africa and internationally. I practice utilization-focused evaluation, frequently using mixed methods including outcomes harvesting and social network analysis (SNA). My own history spans social activism, directing NGOs and both working for and being on boards of …
Hello, my name is Tiffeny Jimenez and I am an Associate Professor in the Community Psychology Doctoral program at National Louis University, Chicago. As a practitioner and educator, I continuously reflect on how well I apply the principles of the field, and a key part of this work involves working with others that seek to …
Greetings AEA 365’ers. I’m Susan Staggs, an independent evaluator and community psychologist, here to talk about infusing community psychology values including respect for diversity, social justice, and prevention rather than treatment into the evaluation synthesis process. Cool Trick: Evaluation Synthesis, as defined by Jane Davidson, is “combining evaluative ratings on multiple dimensions or components to …
