I am Donna Mertens, an independent consultant, hired by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to advise on the evaluation of an initiative funded in all 50 states and the US territories focused on the prevention of rape. Prevention programming consisted of educational programs for perpetrators and potential perpetrators. The prevention of rape involves a …
I am Aysel Vazirova, PhD, an independent gender and development consultant. Recently, I completed an evaluation of a gender-based violence (GBV) program for Syrian refugee women and girls in Jordan, Lebanon, Northern Syria and Iraq. Evaluating humanitarian responses to violence against women and girl (VAWG) presents unique challenges. GBV in humanitarian settings occurs within a …
Hello! I’m Nicole Clark, a licensed social worker and independent evaluator, specializing in working with nonprofits and city agencies to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services specifically for women and girls of color. Women and girls of color face many intersectional issues connected to race and gender. When it comes to mainstream feminism, all …
Hello, I’m Michael Bamberger. I have been working on gender issues since I prepared the Venezuela country gender assessment for the First Women’s World Conference in Mexico in 1974. I spent nine years with the Gender and Development Department of the World Bank and have had the good fortune to have consulted and taught gender …
Hi! We are Kathryn Sielbeck-Mathes and Rebecca Selove, co-authors of Chapter 6 of “Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice”. In our article, based on three evaluations of substance abuse treatment programs for individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues, we discuss the importance of framing and shared understanding between evaluators and evaluation stakeholders. …
Hi! We are Silvia Salinas Mulder and Fabiola Amariles, co-authors of Chapter 9 of “Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice”. Our article examines the fact that in our region, understanding and accepting gender mainstreaming as an international mandate is still slow and even decreasing in some political and cultural contexts, where the indigenous agenda and …
Bismillah! My name is Tristi Nichols, and with an advanced degree from Cornell University, I have been continuously involved in a wide-ranging evaluation practice over the past fifteen years. In my area of work – the international development arena – I find that I am frequently asked to evaluate the extent to which gender inequity …
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Hi! This is Michael Bamberger, an Independent Consultant specializing in the evaluation of social development and gender programs. Over the past few years I have worked with United Nations organizations, bi-lateral programs and NGOs helping strengthen their evaluations of their gender equity policies. Most international development agencies have now defined the promotion of gender equality …
Hi, I’m Katherine Hay. I’ve spent the last 20 years in India working on development, research, and evaluation. Lessons Learned: One thing I’ve learned, and say all the time is, “equity is not an intervention.” In societies where equity is the driving goal, perhaps fairly straightforward evaluations of interventions can increase equity. In such societies …
Greetings from South Africa. I am Donna Podems, a Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University, and founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa. As a practitioner and academic, I often engage in discussions around evaluation theory and practice. One common discussion is around the …
