International and Cross-cultural Evaluation

Hola. My name is Scott Chaplowe and I’ve been a member of the AEA since 2002, currently serve on AEA’s International Working Group (IWG), the Board of  the International Evaluation Academy (IEA), and am a committed EvalSDGs member (serving as its representative in AEA’s IWG).  This post is about a suite of Rad Resources from …

ICCE TIG Week: EvalSDGs Insights – A Treasure Trove of Rad Resources by Scott Chaplowe Read More »

Hi! My name is Maria Montenegro and I am the Chair of EvalYouth North America as well as the AEA representative to EvalYouth. Two years ago, I had the idea of establishing an EvalYouth regional chapter in North America to raise awareness of global evaluation initiatives in Canada and the United States. Fast forward to …

ICCE TIG Week: Looking back at the Youth in Evaluation Week 2023 by Maria Montenegro Read More »

Hello, I am Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and now work as a full professor for the Autonomous University of Yucatan. My expertise lies in education research, specifically in evaluating the quality of education, program evaluation, and equity issues. Here, I discuss the implications of evaluating distance education …

ICCE TIG Week: Reevaluating Distance Education Teaching in the Era of Covid-19: Contextualizing Teacher Evaluation by Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour Read More »

Greetings! I’m Erdenechimeg (Chimgee) Ulziisuren, Founder & President of Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA). I am also a CEO & Founder of Cognos International LLC – Research and Evaluation Company. I would like to share with you the story of MEA’s birth On September 7, 2021, I founded MEA with a vision to promote professionalization and institutionalization …

ICCE TIG Week: Birth Story of Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA) by Erdenechimeg (Chimgee) Ulziisuren Read More »

Hello, we are Injae Son, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE) program at Western Michigan University, and Minji Cho, a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. As South Koreans, we have recently been discussing the origins and practice of evaluation in our home country. Since we are among the few international …

ICCE TIG Week: The Evolution of Evaluation in South Korea by Injae Son and Minji Cho Read More »

Hello AEA 365 Readers! We are Kurt and Aaron, independent evaluation consultants with Effect X LLC. Our experience includes international and cross-cultural evaluations and capacity building projects around the world for organizations such as UNICEF, The World Food Program, The World Bank, Compassion International, Heifer International and The Carter Center.  For those new to the …

ICCE TIG Week: Honoring Holistic Worldviews by Integrating Intangible Domains by Kurt Wilson and Aaron Kates Read More »

Hi! We’re Thomaz Chianca and Jane Davidson. We have been collaborating over the past several years to help organizations use evaluation to drive and learn from systems transformation that addresses both equity and environmental sustainability. It is challenging to evaluate change efforts that have closed out several years earlier – especially when the evidence is …

ICCE TIG Week: Retrospective Impact Evaluation for the Real World: How to Credibly Evaluate Completed Change Efforts Years after Exit and With Less-than-ideal Evidence by Jane Davidson and Thomaz Chianca Read More »

Warm greetings, evaluators! We are Nimisha Poudyal and Becky Findley. We are internal evaluators at Unbound, a humanitarian organization working in 19 countries through a cash transfer program with a sponsorship funding model. Traditional program implementation and funding structures in the nonprofit and development sector utilize evaluation to demonstrate effectiveness to management and donors. A …

ICCE TIG Week: Inverting the Power Structure: lessons learned in moving evaluation practice into local communities by Nimisha Poudyal and Becky Findley Read More »

Hi, I am Liudmila Mikhailova, an evaluation practitioner with 28 years of experience designing, managing, and evaluating U.S. government foreign assistance/diplomacy programs with fieldwork in 25 countries. I also teach two George Washington University’s International Education Program courses: International Program Evaluation and International Program Design. The last decade has witnessed a significant effort in the …

ICCE TIG Week: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Approaches in Evaluation Practice by Liudmila Mikhailova Read More »

Welcome to sustainability! I’m Jindra Cekan/ova, 30+ years in global development, founder of Valuing Voices, Sustainable Solutions for Excellent Impact. There is a compelling need to prove international projects and programs are as sustainable and long-term as we promise.  However, evaluators of foreign aid during project implementation have a very limited set of tools with …

ICCE TIG Week: Evaluating Sustainability: How Do We Measure Up? by Jindra Cekan/ova Read More »