Welcome to the Advocacy and Policy Change (APC) TIG week on AEA365! I’m Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group and co-chair of the TIG. Our TIG is celebrating our 10-year anniversary at this fall’s AEA conference. This week’s blog posts share some of the great insights gained regarding evaluation’s role in advocacy work …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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, …
I am Brian Yoder, Director of Assessment, Evaluation and Institutional Research at the American Society for Engineering Education, a professional association located in Washington, D.C. I also serve as President Elect for the Washington Evaluators, a local affiliate of AEA. I’ve lived and worked in D.C. for the past seven years working as a contractor, …
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Welcome to the Evaluation 2013 Conference Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week on aea365. I’m Will Fenn from Innovation Network a Washington, D.C.-based monitoring and evaluation consulting firm specializing in advocacy and policy change evaluation. There is an all too common situation that arises around evaluation — I’ll call it the evaluation merry-go-round. I saw …
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We are Colleen Duggan, Senior Evaluation Specialist, International Development Research Centre (Canada) and Kenneth Bush, Director of Research, International Conflict Research (Northern Ireland). For the past three years, we have been collaborating on a joint exploratory research project called Evaluation in Extremis: The Politics and Impact of Research in Violently Divided Societies, bringing together researchers, …
