Hello dear colleagues, We’re Alisher Nazirov and Tatiana Tretiakova, representatives of national evaluation communities of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and we would like to share our impressions from one of the most memorable exchange of experience and practices – a study tour to the Washington Evaluators. The tour was supported by the American Evaluation Association, while …
My name is Donna M. Mertens; I am an Independent Consultant based in Washington, D.C. and a founding member of the Washington Evaluators (WE), an AEA local affiliate. I had the pleasure of working with the Washington Evaluators’ leadership team on two grants funded to improve evaluation in Kyrgyzstan and to increase understanding of evaluation …
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We are Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López from the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America, proud members of the CLEAR Initiative. Would you recognize an “enabling environment” if you “saw” it? The enabling environment concept is very popular among professionals in evaluation. But what does it mean? How you create and cultivate this kind of …
I am Boubacar Aw, Coordinator of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) for Francophone Africa hosted at Centre Africain d’Etudes Superieures en Gestion (CESAG) in Senegal, Dakar. I am writing today to offer practical tips on how to develop teaching materials through a Training of Trainers (ToT) model. These tips are …
Hello – My name is Gemma Stevenson. I am Associate Director for the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) where we run rigorous research projects and deliver evaluation trainings as part of CLEAR South Asia. So what have we learnt over the last three years delivering trainings on M&E to the Pakistani government and …
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Tim Clynick, Acting Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results in Anglophone Africa, (University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ghana Institute of Public Administration and the Kenya School of Government) Greetings from CLEAR Anglophone Africa! We are often asked where our programme – now in its third year – is having the …
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We are Diva Dhar (Program Director) and Urmy Shukla (Capacity Building Manager) at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, based at J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. We work to strengthen M&E skills in South Asia, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. As part of our work, …
I’m Zhao Min, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center (AFDC) in Shanghai, China. AFDC is a member of the CLEAR Initiative and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. If you follow what is happening in international evaluation capacity building (ECB), you might have heard about CLEAR – the Regional Centers for Learning …
Greetings AEA365! My name is Miki Tsukamoto and I am a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the Planning and Evaluation Department in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). What if you had an opportunity to add a human face to baseline surveys and reflect numbers in a more appealing …
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My name is Alexey Kuzmin and I am the President of the Process Consulting Company based in Moscow, Russia. Lesson Learned: I often work internationally and believe that the best (if not the only) way to conduct a quality evaluation outside your home country is to involve local (national) consultants. Local specialists have an in-depth …
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