Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

Evaluation without learning is akin to dutifully planting and watering a garden-to-be, without staying to reap the benefits of its harvest. My name is Elizabeth McGee (she/her), I am the Founder and Senior Consultant at LEAP Consulting. Throughout my evaluation career, I have witnessed learning efforts fall short because of the tendency to see learning …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Not All Learning is Created Equal: How to be More Intentional in our Efforts to Engage in Transformative Learning by Elizabeth McGee Read More »

Hello, I am Barbara Klugman (PhD), based in South Africa, once an anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, now providing freelance strategy and evaluation supports for social justice funders, networks and NGOs. I work with groups engaged in organising and advocating for social or environmental justice. In this process, I have come to realise that sometimes …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Must We Call It ‘Evaluation’? – How ‘M&E’ Language Can be a Barrier to Institutionalising Learning by Barbara Klugman Read More »

Hello! We are Leslie Fierro, Heather Codd, and Ann Marie Castleman. Over the past several years we have engaged in scholarship and on-the-ground activities to help strengthen the capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to plan, commission, and implement high-quality evaluations. One discipline that is heavily involved in evaluation is public health. Public health professionals …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Public Health: Tools from the CDC by Leslie Fierro, Heather Codd, and Ann Marie Castleman Read More »

I’m JoAnna Hillman, Director of the Center for Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement with Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance. As an evaluator, I see evaluation in EVERYTHING. EVERYDAY. At times, I feel a little like Michael Constantine’s character, Gus Portokalos, in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when he repeatedly says “Give …

OL-ECB TIG Week: Want to Be a Better Evaluator? Watch TV by JoAnna Hillman Read More »

Greetings! We’re Joy Kubarek and Brian Johnson, Co-founders of Inform Evaluation & Research. Much of our work focuses on building evaluation capacity within informal science and conservation organizations. In recent years, we’ve seen increasing demand for evaluation capacity building (ECB), but organizations don’t always know when they are ready for an ECB initiative or the …

OL-ECB TIG Week: The Importance of Evaluation Champions in Evaluation Capacity Building by Joy Kubarek and Brian Johnson Read More »

My name is Scott Chaplowe and I currently work as the Director of Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation for climate at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). As an evaluation professional, much of my work is not simply doing evaluation, but building the capacity of others to practice, manage, support and/or use evaluation. Hot Tips: Beyond …

Top 10 Considerations for Evaluation Capacity Building in Organizations (2/2) by Scott Chaplowe Read More »