International and Cross-cultural Evaluation

Susan Kistler on Free Coffee Break Webinar Series for M&E

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 Saturday contributor. Hot Tip: In July, AEA will be offering AEA’s first public Coffee Break Series co-sponsored with our colleagues at Catholic Relief Services, American Red Cross/Red Crescent, the United States Agency for International Development, and AEA’s International and Cross Cultural Topical Interest Group …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Evaluation

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Using culturally appropriate approaches when conducting research and evaluation in multicultural settings, is widely accepted and essential. The cultural competence approach serves as the specific framework when conducting evaluations. This approach alone, …

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Bloggers Series: Pablo Rodríguez-Bilella on Al Borde Del Caos

My name is Pablo Rodríguez-Bilella, and I am a social researcher at the Argentine Research Council and a professor of Social Anthropology at the UNSJ (Argentina).  I have been involved for the past few years in different uses of Web 2.0, and below I will share with you some lessons of my blogging experience at Al Borde Del Caos. Rad …

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Dominica McBride on Sociocultural Theory and its Applicability to Evaluation

I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc. Recently, I wrote an article for New Directions for Evaluation on Sociocultural Theory (ST) and its applicability to evaluation. Joke: There were a few young fish swimming near an older, wise fish and the old, wise fish says, “My, isn’t the water wonderful today?” and the …

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Bloggers Series: Jane Davidson and Patricia Rogers on Genuine Evaluation

Hello. We are Jane Davidson, Director of Real Evaluation Ltd, and Patricia Rogers, Professor of Public Sector Evaluation at RMIT University, and together we write the Genuine Evaluation blog. We’d spent years discussing evaluation offline and found that we shared some strong views and values (and a sense of humor) that we could have some …

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Bloggers Series: Rafael Monterde-Diaz on Evaluateca

My name is Rafael Monterde-Diaz, and I am an Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), where I teach Project Management and Program Evaluation. I blog at EVALUATECA and you can also find me on twitter: @rafa_monty Rad Resource – EVALUATECA is a blog devoted to evaluation. I try to share events and resources …

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LGBT Week: Cary Johnson and Efrain Gutierrez on Evaluating Advocacy Efforts to Promote LGBT Human Rights Around the World

Hello! We’re Cary Johnson, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Efrain Gutierrez, Associate at FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, and Co-leader of the LGBT TIG. We want to share with you some initial lessons learned and resources we have found since IGLHRC engaged with FSG in the development …

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Cindy Banyai on Social research and evaluation in an Asian context

Cindy Banyai of the Refocus Institute, a consultancy specializing in participatory evaluation using visual methods, and graduate of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, here to discuss my experience working and researching in Asia. This post was inspired by the AEA365 post from Efrain Gutierrez on interviews with Latinos. Efrain’s perspective on cross-cultural data gathering resonated with …

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APC Week: Annabel Jackson on Influence and Influencers and Learning from my clients

Hello. I’m Annabel Jackson. I lead an evaluation practice that I founded in 1989 in the United Kingdom (UK). We work in Europe, Africa and the United States in areas including economic development, the arts, grant making, advocacy and international aid: from evaluating The Office of Tony Blair’s program in Rwanda to assessing implementation of …

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Bloggers Series: Rick Davies on Rick on the Road

Hi, my name is Rick Davies, I am an independent evaluation consultant, based in Cambridge, UK. I have been working with international development aid programs in Africa and Asia, in various roles since 1980. I run the Rick on the Road blog. Rad Resource – The Rick on the Road blog started in 2004, and …

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