Hello! I’m Pierce Gordon, recent Ph.D. grad and independent innovation and evaluation consultant. I’ve been researching the evaluation approaches for the Botswana Innovation System for two years, and I thought my methods and insights would be uniquely useful to the AEA community. Recently, innovation has become the topic du jour for development practice, and Botswana’s …
Linda Raftree, Digital Safeguarding Consultant, here to remind us that data privacy starts at the design phase. These days, discussion about data privacy and security seems to be everywhere. This increase in awareness has been spurred in part by legislation like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), however high profile data breaches and manipulation …
ICCE TIG Week: Data privacy starts at the design phase! By Linda Raftree Read More »
Hello! My name is Michele Tarsilla (Twitter: MiEval_TuEval) and I am the UNICEF Regional Evaluation Adviser for West and Central Africa. I am also the Associate Editor of the African Evaluation Journal (aejonline.org) and the AEA International Buddy Program Coordinator. I recently gave a workshop on “Crossing Technical and Personal Boundaries in Evaluation towards more …
ICCE TIG Week: Boundaries in International Evaluation by Michele Tarsilla Read More »
I am Stephen Porter, an evaluator in Oxfam, an international non-governmental organization (INGO). A major part of my job is to provide evidence on whether people live equitably and free from the injustice of poverty. When conducting evaluations we often seek to apply tools to improve the quality and use of evaluations in an ethical …
ICCE TIG Week: Invisibility in Evaluation by Stephen Porter Read More »
If there was ever a good time to have an AEA conference theme like “Speaking Truth to Power,” it is now. My name is Scott Chaplowe, and as the Director of Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) for Climate Change, I am reminded of this every day. This post is …
Greetings, fellow evaluators. Claudia Lopes, Affiliated Lecturer at University of Cambridge and Shravanti Reddy, Evaluation Specialist UN Women Independent Evaluation Service here to share our learnings from the recently published report ‘Can Big Data be Used in Evaluation?: A UN Women Feasibility Study’. The quick answer… yes, but we still need to learn more and …
ICCE TIG Week: Can big data be used in evaluation? By Claudia Lopes and Shravanti Reddy Read More »
Hello and welcome to International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) Evaluation Week! This is Veronica Olazabal, ICCE TIG Chair, AEA Board Member and Head of Evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation. This week is intentionally designed to preview the international and cross-cultural evaluation offerings at AEA’s Annual Conference. Please follow along! I’ve been reflecting on how …
ICCE TIG Week: End-User Feedback in Speaking Truth to Power By Veronica Olazabal Read More »
AEA365 Curator note: Please enjoy this article, part of a 5-part miniseries on VOPEs – Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation. Greetings, fellow evaluators. I’m Jim Rugh, member of AEA since the merger in 1986; now retired after an active career involved in evaluation at international levels. That included being the AEA Representative to the IOCE (International …
What Are VOPEs? And How Do They Relate To Us As Evaluators? by Jim Rugh Read More »
Hello, Keiko Kuji-Shikatani (C.E., CES representative for EvalGender+) and Hur Hassnain (Pakistan Evaluation Association; Impact, Results and Learning Manager, Y Care International) here to share our thoughts on how to engage and collectively think about better evaluating learning and social accountability in FCV (fragility, conflict and violence). The World Bank estimates that by 2030, the …
I’m Jessie Tannenbaum, Advisor in the Research, Evaluation, and Learning Office at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative*, here to share tips and ideas for conducting evaluation work in foreign languages. First Things First: Budget Having a good interpreter is as important as having a good evaluator, and interpretation (verbal) and translation (written) …
