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International and Cross-cultural Evaluation

CC Week: Dominica McBride on Integrating Cultural Competence into Everyday Practice, Part 2: Cultural Competence through Self-awareness and Reflection

Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc. and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I also have my PhD in Counseling Psychology and have provided psychotherapy. This tip focuses on the affective and psychological side of cultural competence in everyday evaluation practice. Culturally …

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CC Week: Jori Hall on Integrating Cultural Competence into Everyday Practice, Part 1

Hello, I’m Jori Hall, assistant professor at the University of Georgia and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. This tip is focused on integrating cultural competence into everyday practice through values-engagement. Tips: As suggested in the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation, all evaluation …

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CC Week: Karen Anderson on Integrating Cultural Competency into Organizations

I’m Karen Anderson, AEA’s Diversity Coordinator Intern, and in this role I support AEA’s diversity programs, TIGs, and the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The baton has been passed from the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Task Force, the Statement developers, to the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group …

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CC Week: Tamera Bertrand Jones, Osman Özturgut, and Leah Nuebauar on Teaching Culturally Competent Evaluation

Hello! We’re Tamera Bertrand Jones, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University, Osman Ozturgut, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of the Incarnate World, and Leah Neubauer is the Associate Director of the Master of Public Health Program at DePaul University. Evaluators enter the field from different academic backgrounds and possess varying levels of …

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CC Week: Osman Özturgut and Tamera Bertrand Jones on Integrating Cultural Competence into Your AEA Presentation

Hello! We’re Osman Ozturgut, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of the Incarnate World and Tamera Bertrand Jones, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. In the previous posting, we learned about the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation (the Statement) and the reason for its development. In this post, …

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CC Week: Cindy Crusto on Introduction to AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Week

Hi, my name is Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale School of Medicine, and chair of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group.  I am writing on behalf of the Working Group to inform you of the purpose of the Working Group and to introduce this week’s aea365 series. As you …

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Melanie Kawano-Chiu and Andrew Blum on Peacebuilding Evaluation Project: A Forum for Donors and Implementers

We are Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Program Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and Andrew Blum, Director of Evaluation and Learning at the United States Institute of Peace.  More than two years ago I teamed up with Andrew Blum, Director of Learning and Evaluation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to launch an initiative …

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Silvia Salinas-Mulder and Fabiola Amariles on Gender, Rights and Cultural Awareness in Development Evaluation

We are Silvia Salinas-Mulder, Bolivian anthropologist, feminist activist and independent consultant, and Fabiola Amariles, Colombian economist, founder and director of Learning for Impact. We have worked for several years as external evaluators for development programs in Latin America. The following ideas may help to operationalize the principles of gender- and human rights (HR)-responsive evaluation in …

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WE Week: Laura Gagliardone on Participatory Communication and Evaluation Walk Hand in Hand

Hi, I am Laura Gagliardone. For about seven years I have collaborated with multilateral, bilateral and non-profit organizations geographically targeted to Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and focused in the following areas: research, communication, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, program planning, development and coordination. RELEVANCE: I like thinking of evaluation as a way …

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WE Week: Eric Abdullateef on Using Online Search to Rapidly Assess Public’s View of Your Programs

I’m Eric Abdullateef. I enable evaluation at USAID and facilitate interagency responses to complex crises in developing countries where the U.S. has strategic interests.  Reshaping public understanding about our initiative is a growing part of my portfolio. When a public opinion poll is out of the question and a general pulse of how average citizens …

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