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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 »
Hi, I’m Lisa Frantzen, Senior Consultant, Evaluation and Learning at TCC Group. I work with foundations, NGOs, and companies to strengthen their practices to use evaluation with a learning mindset. Over the last few years, I’ve worked with more and more clients that are asking questions about how they can shift power and leadership of …
ICCE TIG Week: Localization: How Do We Do This Well? by Lisa Frantzen Read More »
Hello! I’m Dawn Pauls, a program evaluator living in Saint Paul, MN. This blog post is adapted from my final paper in a recent course in International Development Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota. Designing innovative evaluation methods for determining to what extent the world’s most vulnerable children are assured of their human rights could help …
ICCE TIG Week: Ensuring Child Rights in Program Evaluation by Dawn Pauls Read More »
Hi! We are Amy Gray, Senior Program Officer For Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Ned Meerdink, Senior Programs Officer, and Simar Singh, Senior Programs Manager at RefugePoint, an international organization advancing lasting solutions for at-risk refugees, and supporting the humanitarian community to do the same. According to UNHCR’s 2022 Global Appeal, the number of forcibly …
