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Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken and Gabrielle Watson on Is Developmental Evaluation Right for Large Scale Organizational Change Processes?

Hi, we’re Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken (Director of the Syracuse University Transnational NGO Initiative) and Gabrielle Watson (independent evaluator). We engaged a group of practitioners at the 2015 AEA conference to talk about organizational change in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and explore a hunch that Developmental Evaluation could help organizations manage change. Several large INGOs are …

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Jennifer Grove on One Practitioner’s Journey to Embrace Evaluation

3 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / January 13, 2015 January 12, 2015

I’m Jennifer Grove, Prevention Outreach Coordinator at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), a technical assistance provider for anti-sexual violence programs throughout the country. I’ve worked in this movement for nearly 17 years, but when it comes to evaluation work, I’m a newbie. Evaluation has been an area of interest for programs for several years …

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Sharon Wasco on Practice-Based Evidence: Another Frame for Evaluation

3 Comments / Community Psychology, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / December 22, 2014 December 18, 2015

My name is Sharon Wasco, and I am a community psychologist and independent consultant. I describe here a recent shift in my language that underscores, I think, important trends in evaluation: I used to pitch evaluation as a way that organizations could “get ahead of” an increasing demand for evidence-based practice (EBP); Now I sell …

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OL-ECB Week: Kathryn Lowerre on Developing Evaluation Capacity with Colleagues at a State Health Department: Smile, Nod, … What?

1 Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 28, 2014 November 23, 2014

I’m Kathryn Lowerre, an internal evaluator for the Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau (EHEB) at the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH). My background includes work in Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and teaching in the humanities. Environmental Health Epidemiology looks at the connections between the environment and human health (nmhealth.org/about/erd/eheb). Funding for many EHEB programs comes …

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OL-ECB Week: Michele Tarsilla on Results-Based Management (RBM) vs. Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 27, 2014 November 23, 2014

Hello! My name is Michele Tarsilla, an independent evaluation advisor and evaluation capacity development (ECD) specialist with experience in over thirty countries. I have served as Chair of the International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation TIG at AEA and am currently in transition to become the new OL-ECB TIG Co-Chair. The idea for this blog sprang from the …

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OL-ECB Week: Tom Archibald and Guy Sharrock on Integrating Learning by Promoting Evaluative Thinking

1 Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 26, 2014 November 23, 2014

Hi, we are Tom Archibald (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech) and Guy Sharrock (Senior Technical Advisor for Learning with Catholic Relief Services). We believe one way to integrate and sustain learning in an organization is by intentionally promoting “evaluative thinking.” Evaluative thinking (ET) is an …

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OL-ECB Week: Lisa Richardson on Coaching to Build Capacity

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 25, 2014 November 23, 2014

My name is Lisa Richardson and I am the internal Improvement Advisor/Evaluator for the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), which in addition to coordinating the collaborative activities of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), provides leadership in many aspects of child trauma policy, practice, and training. Online surveys are a …

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OL-ECB Week: Joe Bauer on Being an Internal Evaluator and Navigating the Organizational Culture

4 Comments / Internal Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 24, 2014 November 23, 2014

Hi, I’m Joe Bauer, the Director of Survey Research & Evaluation in the Statistics & Evaluation Center (SEC) at the American Cancer Society (ACS) in Atlanta, Georgia. I have been working as an internal evaluator at the ACS for almost nine years, in a very challenging, but very rewarding position. Lesson Learned: Evaluation is always political …

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OL-ECB Week: Bonnie Richards on Getting Yourself In Context and Developing Stakeholder Buy-In

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 23, 2014 November 23, 2014

My name is Bonnie Richards, an analyst from Foresee and Chair of the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG. Welcome to the OL-ECB sponsored AEA365 week! This week our blog posts will cover a range of experiences discussing challenges and successes we have had sustaining learning or evaluation in our work with organizations or …

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Liz Zadnik on Bringing passion and enthusiasm to program evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 8, 2014 November 7, 2014

Hello! I am Liz Zadnik, Capacity Building Specialist at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I’m also a new member of the aea365 curating team and first-time Saturday contributor! Over the past five years I have been working within the anti-sexual violence movement at both the state and national levels to share my enthusiasm …

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