Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

Hi! We are Brittany Dernberger and Florence Santos, and we lead efforts to measure systems-level change and impact at CARE—an international development and humanitarian NGO focused on women and girls. For the better part of a year, we led an innovative, local-to-global systems-level change evaluation of CARE’s impact on COVID-19 vaccinations. This was quite challenging, especially …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Learn-by-Doing to Refine Systems-Level Change by Brittany Dernberger Read More »

Hello, I am Xin Xin Yang, a Multi-Country Evaluation Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific Region of UNICEF. In this blog, I will illustrate how translating international evaluation guidance, such as the OECD/DAC evaluation criteria and glossary, can be a strategic intervention to enhance national evaluation capacity. I will draw on the experiences of …

OL-ECB TIG Week: The role of translating OECD/DAC guidance in national evaluation capacity development (NECD): Evidence from China and Mongolia by Xin Xin Yang Read More »

I’m Allison Prieur (she/her), an independent consultant and evaluation PhD student from Essex County, Ontario, Canada. I’m interested in building evaluation capacity to support human service non-profits to advance system change and social justice. I’ve taken some courses in Organizational Change Leadership at Western Michigan University as part of my PhD program. Lessons Learned I’ve …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Embracing Resistance to Build Evaluation Capacity by Allison Prieur Read More »

Greetings! I am Dr. Albertina Lopez, director at the Center for Evaluation Innovation where we partner with philanthropy on strategy, learning, and evaluation efforts that intend to further racial equity and social justice. Today I’d like to discuss how organizations can truly learn their values through sharing a valuable framework and lessons we have learned …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Organizational Learning About Values by Albertina Lopez Read More »

Hello! We are Arin Ahlum Hanson, former Director of Outreach at Living Beyond Breast Cancer, and Kristen Gardner-Volle and Laura Pinsoneault, of Evaluation Plus. In 2022, Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) and Evaluation Plus (E+) partnered to build evaluation capacity across all levels of staff rather than through one centralized evaluation role. While our project’s …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Using a culture of learning models to build organization-wide evaluation capacity by Arin Ahlum Hanson, Kristen Gardner-Volle, and Laura Pinsoneault Read More »

Hi, I’m Gretchen Biesecker, Principal Consultant with Bee’s Knees Consulting LLC in Somerville, MA. Most of my work focuses on evaluation capacity-building with nonprofits. I’ve been immersed deeply in building culture and practices for organizational learning for over 15 years, both as an internal evaluator and as a coach to many internal evaluators. Based on …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Ten Tactics Internal Evaluators Can Use to Build Organizational Learning within Nonprofits by Gretchen Biesecker Read More »

Hi, we are Dr. Cynthia Phillips with Decision Catalyst, LLC and Courtney Long from UPMC HealthPlan. We both work in spaces that require us to make connections, put the focus on learning, and think out-side-the-box about evaluation. We are excited about this week of AEA365, where the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building (OL-ECB) TIG …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Why is Organizational Learning Relevant for Evaluation Today? By Dr. Cynthia Phillips and Courtney Long Read More »

Hi! I’m Jan Fields, program evaluator for the Michigan Overdose Data to Action (MODA) Program in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). My work focuses on evaluating prevention and harm reduction activities funded by the CDC’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement. In addition to evaluating MODA activities, I am also the coordinator of a peer-to-peer (P2P) learning group consisting of OD2A-funded evaluators located in 66 jurisdictions throughout the country.

My name is Elizabeth McGee (she/her), founder of LEAP Consulting, and the soon-to-be Center for Radical Evaluation and Applied Research. Meetings. There are too many. They’re too long. They’re not productive. We don’t learn. And yet despite all of this, we don’t give them much attention even though they fill hours of our day. We …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Meeting To Meet: Why We’re Terrible at Learning in Meetings by Elizabeth McGee Read More »

Hi, I am Gretchen Biesecker, Principal Consultant with Bee’s Knees Consulting LLC in Somerville, MA. A large part of my practice focuses on evaluation capacity-building with nonprofits small and large, including AmeriCorps programs across the U.S. AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is a federal agency that “brings people together to tackle the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteering.” Through a national network, AmeriCorps enrolls 200,000 Americans each year to meet critical needs in education, the environment, disaster services, public health, among others.