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APC Week: Tayo Fabusuyi on the need for a Community of Practice on Advocacy Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / January 12, 2012 April 3, 2012

I’m Tayo Fabusuyi, lead strategist at Numeritics, a Pittsburgh-based research and consulting practice. While advocacy has been around since humans were first able to give voice to different opinions, the evaluation of advocacy efforts is still very much in its infancy. One of the hallmarks of a nascent field is the absence of consensus on …

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APC Week: Anna Williams on When is a policy “win” real? Why does this matter when evaluating policy advocacy?

Hi. I’m Anna Williams, Senior Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, in Seattle, Washington. Advocates, their funders, and policy advocacy evaluators seek to understand the results of policy advocacy work. Advocates promote the adoption (or reversal) of government policies, and many use the term “wins” to refer to successful milestones in their advocacy work. …

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APC Week: Gabrielle Watson on Internal Utilization of External Evaluations

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / January 10, 2012 April 3, 2012

Greetings! I’m Gabrielle Watson, and I work at Oxfam America, a global humanitarian and development organization working to end social injustice around the world. As the Manager for Campaign Evaluation, I work with policy advocacy teams to assess their campaigns and facilitate learning. We periodically commission external evaluations. They are a big time and resource …

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APC Week: Annabel Jackson on Influence and Influencers and Learning from my clients

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / January 9, 2012 January 6, 2012

Hello. I’m Annabel Jackson. I lead an evaluation practice that I founded in 1989 in the United Kingdom (UK). We work in Europe, Africa and the United States in areas including economic development, the arts, grant making, advocacy and international aid: from evaluating The Office of Tony Blair’s program in Rwanda to assessing implementation of …

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APC Week: David Devlin-Foltz on Advocacy and Policy Change as a Developing Evaluation Field

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / January 8, 2012 January 6, 2012

Greetings, aea365 fans: I am David Devlin-Foltz, director of the Aspen Institute’s Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program and co-chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG). I’m kicking off a week of aea365 posts by members of our fast-growing TIG. Established in 2007, the APC TIG is already almost …

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Joelle Cook on the Bellwether Interview Methodology

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Qualitative Methods / January 6, 2012 January 2, 2012

I am Joelle Cook with Organizational Research Services (ORS) in Seattle, Washington. ORS designs, implements and coaches clients in outcome-based planning and evaluation. We specialize in advocacy and policy evaluation and our advocacy-related projects often include the investigation of changes in political will. Through a demonstration session at the 2011 AEA conference, Steve Mumford and …

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Elizabeth Yuanjing Wilcox on Certification of Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / May 11, 2011 April 18, 2011

Hi, this is Elizabeth Yuanjing Wilcox, a doctoral candidate of Evaluation Studies at University of Minnesota. Here are my two cents on credentialing and certification of evaluators. In light of Canadian Evaluation Society’s success in launching the Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation in 2010, AEA started wondering about instituting a certification and/or credentialing program in America. …

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EPE TIG Week: Michel Ehrlich on Monitoring Legislation

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 20, 2011 April 19, 2011

My name is Michel Ehrlich and I am the Publisher of EU Issue Tracker. We provide regulatory monitoring and tracking services, looking at European Union (EU) regulation and policy, and we cover several major policy areas including Environment, Energy, Transport, and others. There are, of course, a large number of people, in a wide variety …

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