Dear Colleagues, My name is Michele Tarsilla ( Twitter @ MiEval_TuEval) and I work as Evaluation Adviser at the UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa (I am also Associate Editor of the African Evaluation Journal). Today, I would like to share with you 5 tips and 10 resources on how to better engage …
Hello! I’m Professor Ian Goldman, CLEAR Anglophone Africa. Mine Pabari and I have brought together eight cases of evidence use by governments to understand how policy makers behaviour was influenced. These draw on use of different evidence sources (research, research synthesis, evaluations and citizen engagement), in 5 countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Benin, Ghana) and …
This is Marina Lahowin and Tabitha Olang of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Power & Climate team. We have the pleasure of sharing our experience related to this AEA365 week’s focus on Power and Participation in International and Cross Cultural Evaluation. When the novel Coronavirus began to spread across the world, the voices of rural communities were …
Greetings! You have found your way to my blog where we will discuss tips for conducting culturally competent realist evaluation in global contexts. I am Abi Sriharan. I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. I have over fifteen years of experience teaching, researching, and …
I am Sandra Ayoo, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methodology, currently teaching, practicing and doing research on Program Evaluation at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. I practiced program evaluation in international development for several years in over 35 African countries as a national and international expert, and I experienced firsthand the power dynamics …
Hello AEA Colleagues! I am Maddison Staszkiewicz, a young and emerging evaluator who found my passion for evaluation while working on an international and cross-cultural evaluation team. As discussed by Jandt in An Introduction to Intercultural Communication (2018), it is not possible to have effective communication with others without first understanding their culture and the …
Greetings from Toronto! I’m Sandra Nkusi, an Impact Measurement and Evaluation Analyst with the Ontario Trillium Foundation in Ontario, Canada. Lessons Learned: As the field of evaluation has matured and program evaluations have become more commonplace, a major challenge that I – and, I’m sure, many of you – have encountered, is the ability to …
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Hello, I’m Nichelle Walton, Senior Associate – Organizational Performance at the Rockefeller Foundation, based in New York City. In 2019, the Rockefeller Foundation launched a pilot test of interactive voice response (IVR) to enable rapid, mobile data collection about its programs. Mobile data collection is attractive as a supplement to more traditional M&E approaches because …
Greetings from beautiful New Hampshire! I am Rosie Emerson—a Kenyan external evaluator of international development programs (mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa). I have led over 50 evaluation projects and in this post, I would like to share some overarching lessons from my experiences: Programs should stop trying to “boil an ocean”: Too often, development programs have …
Hello! We are Kari Selander, Emma Jones, Soren Vester Haldrup and Claire Hutchings. We work at Oxford Policy Management, an international development consultancy with offices in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Here, we reflect on an evaluation we are undertaking – to share what we’re up to and to ask you to share your …
