Environmental Program Evaluation – Page 9

EPE Week: Anna Williams on The False Dichotomy Between “Environmental” and “Social”

4 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 17, 2012 April 15, 2012

Hi. I am Anna Williams, a Senior Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting in Seattle, Washington. I have devoted the past 20 years to solving complex environmental-social issues. I use the words “environmental-social” here intentionally: Fundamentally both “environmental” and “social” challenges – and their solutions – are the same. An independent evaluation I conducted …

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EPE Week: Tina Phillips on Developing Validated Scales

Hello! My name is Tina Phillips and I am the evaluation program manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I lead an NSF-funded project called DEVISE (Developing, Validating and Implementing Situated Evaluations), which is aimed at providing practitioners and evaluators with tools to assess individual learning outcomes from citizen science, or public participation in scientific …

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EPE Week: Yvonne Watson on Mission Possible: Evaluation Capacity Building at EPA

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 15, 2012 April 15, 2012

Hi everyone! I’m Yvonne M. Watson, a Program Analyst in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Evaluation Support Division (ESD). As chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group, I invite you to learn more about evaluation and environmental issues this week. Evaluation units across the federal government vary in …

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

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 11, 2012 April 3, 2012

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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EPE TIG Week: Annelise Carleton-Hug on Greening Your Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Independent Consulting / April 22, 2011 September 1, 2011

I’m Annelise Carleton-Hug, principal evaluator of Trillium Associates, a small evaluation company with a focus on environmental program evaluation. I’m also the Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG and I invite you to learn more about our TIG by visiting the EPE TIG website. Hot Tip: Consider this aea365 post a conversation starter that …

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EPE TIG Week: Marjorie McRae on Tips for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Programs

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 21, 2011 April 19, 2011

Hello. I’m Marjorie McRae, a Principal with Research Into Action ,Inc., a firm that specializes in process evaluation and market research for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. Repeated process evaluations and market research studies are great tools for supporting continuous improvement of efficiency and renewable programs. Yet some program administrators think, “It’s too early …

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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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EPE TIG Week: Johanna Morariu on an Evaluation Approach for an Environmental Think Tank & Advocacy Organization

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011 April 19, 2011

Hi! I’m Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) is an evaluation consulting firm that provides evaluation consulting services to nonprofits and funders, and works to build the sector’s evaluation capacity. I lead Innovation Network’s environmental evaluation work, with a strong concentration on environmental advocacy evaluation. A few months ago we began …

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EPE TIG Week: Nick Salafsky on Miradi Adaptive Management Software for Conservation Projects

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 18, 2011 April 10, 2011

My name is Nick Salafsky and I am Co-Director and Co-Founder of Foundations of Success, a nonprofit organization committed to working with practitioners to learn how to do conservation better through the process of adaptive management. My colleagues and I have spent the past two decades helping biodiversity conservation project teams design theories of change …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on Fuzzy Logic Models – Embracing and Navigating Complexity

3 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / April 17, 2011 April 20, 2011

My name is Matt Keene; I work with the Environmental Protection Agency and coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network. Chris Metzner (freelance graphic designer and data visualization artist) and Jeff Wasbes (independent evaluation consultant with ResearchWorks, Inc.) helped enormously with this post. In 2009 Oregon became the first state to enact a law requiring paint manufacturers …

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