We are Annette Gardner and Claire Brindis, both at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco and authors of the recent book, Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice. There is a growing body of resources on linking theory to advocacy and policy change evaluation …
Hello! We are Robin Kane of RK Evaluation and Strategies, Carlisle Levine of BLE Solutions, LLC, Carlyn Orians of ORS Impact, and Claire Reinelt, independent evaluation consultant. We offer evaluation, applied research and technology services to help organizations increase their effectiveness and contribute to better outcomes. In our advocacy and policy change evaluation work, we …
My name is Heather Krause. As a data scientist for the Ontario Syrian Refugee Resettlement Secretariat, part of my job is to design ways to harness data to measure how successfully refugee resettlement is going, as well as what programs and services are working well and which ones have gaps. Using data to advocate for …
My name is Julia Coffman, and I am director of the Center for Evaluation Innovation, where we are building the field of evaluation in areas that are challenging to assess, including advocacy and policy change. These are complex political times. Advocates are facing new challenges as they grapple with unpredictable developments that create political dysfunction …
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Welcome to the Advocacy and Policy Change (APC) TIG week! I’m Jewlya Lynn, the CEO at Spark Policy Institute. I am excited to kick-off the week in this year of political uncertainty and dynamic change. Our blog posts will explore timely, relevant insights regarding evaluation’s role in advocacy work around the world. Change is inevitable …
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We are Anne Gienapp and Sarah Stachowiak from ORS Impact, a consulting firm that helps organizations use data and evaluation to strengthen their impact, especially in hard-to-measure systems change efforts. Ten years ago, when the field of advocacy and policy change was first coalescing, a number of excellent field building publications helped make the case …
Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, President and CEO of BLE Solutions, LLC. We offer evaluation, applied research and technology services to help organizations increase their effectiveness and contribute to better outcomes. I specialize in global advocacy, peacebuilding and strategic evaluation. A tremendous challenge in advocacy evaluation is identifying links between advocacy activities and changes in people’s …
Hello, I’m Oscar Espinosa from Community Science . We recently evaluated the effectiveness of professional development programs in various sectors that seek to diversify their leadership or workforce to be more responsive to communities of color. Hot Tips Specify what program effectiveness means–to all stakekholders! A program’s intended objectives are oftentimes skewed to the perspective …
Hello, we are Kat Athanasiades and Johanna Morariu from Innovation Network, an evaluation firm that works with philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, especially those engaged in advocacy. Advocacy evaluation has been a difficult field to generate shareable lessons. Many organizations and campaigns are concerned that sharing their “secrets” (information usually divulged in evaluation reports such as …
Hello! We are Rhonda Schlangen (US), Julie Tumbo (Tanzania), and Ben Awinda (Tanzania), evaluation consultants specializing in advocacy and development. In Tanzania and other countries, civil society advocates struggle with developing skills and finding support for their efforts. We’re using the dissemination phase of an evaluation of three groundbreaking Tanzanian advocacy campaigns to support advocate …
