Welcome to ICCE week! This is Veronica Olazabal, Director of Measurement and Evaluation at the Rockefeller Foundation by day and Chair of the ICCE TIG by night – AEA Board Member always. We have a diverse set of posts this week written by our ICCE TIG colleagues that touch on how international evaluators are considering …
Shawna Hoffman here, from The Rockefeller Foundation’s M&E team. At Evaluation 2017– which will focus on Learning to Action – I’ll be chairing a multipaper session that will explore challenges and opportunities evaluating diverse programs in different countries in Africa. The upcoming session got me reflecting on the recent conference of our peer association, African …
ICCE TIG Week: Evaluation in Africa and the SDGs, by Shawna Hoffman Read More »
Hello! I’m Dani de García, Director of Performance Evaluation, Innovation, and Learning for Social Impact, an international development management consulting firm. We’re working to innovate within the international evaluation space, especially with evaluation approaches. One of our contracts pilots Developmental Evaluation (DE) at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). We’re trying to see if, …
ICCE TIG Week: Challenges to Adopting Innovation in MERL by Dani de Garcia Read More »
Hi, I’m Xiaoxia Newton, co-Chair of ICCE and an Associate Professor at College of Education, UMass Lowell. I’m happy to promote our international awardees’ sessions and encourage you to attend their presentations. Our awardees spanning three continents (Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa). Hot Tip: Enhance the quality of evaluation work through capacity building among …
Hi All! I am Kirsten Mulcahy, an evaluator at the economic-consulting firm Genesis Analytics, based in South Africa. As evaluators, we are often called to insert ourselves seamlessly into different countries, cultures and organisations without contributing to bias. Yet we must still engage appropriately with prevailing perspectives in order to extract useful information. In two …
Hello, I’m Ashweeta Patnaik and I work at the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) at The University of Texas in Austin. RMC has partnered with Nuru International (Nuru) to use Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) data to evaluate the impacts of Nuru’s integrated development model. Here, I share some lessons learned. Nuru is a social venture committed …
This is Veronica Olazabal and Nadia Asgaraly of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Measurement and Evaluation team. Welcome to this week’s International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation (ICCE) TIG week where we are providing a sneak preview into the ICCE sessions at AEA 2017 From Learning to Action! The ICCE TIG provides a unique opportunity for us to learn …
Koolamalsi njoos (Hello Colleagues/Friends). I’m Nicole Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape) a culturally responsive (CR) and Indigenous Evaluator (CRIE) at the WI Center for Education Research (WEC and LEAD Center) and President/Evaluator at Bowman Performance Consulting, all located in Wisconsin. In 1905, the President of UW, Charles Van Hise, provided the foundation for what has become fundamental to …
THE WISCONSIN IDEA IN ACTION by Nicole Bowman Read More »
Hi All, I’m Abdul Majeed, an M&E consultant based in Kabul with a track record in establishing M&E department at Free & Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) organization. I share insights about evaluation practice based on my own experience and strive to increase awareness on this (comparatively) new notion. Creating a culture where M&E …
Creating a Culture for M&E in an Organization by Abdul Majeed Read More »
Jambo! Veronica Olazabal of The Rockefeller Foundation and Alyna Wyatt of Genesis Analytics here to share our recent experience at the 8th African Evaluation Association Conference (AFREA) held last week in Kampala, Uganda. This event happens roughly every two years and brings together more than 600 evaluation practitioners from across Africa. The challenges of the …
