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Program Design

Program Design Week: Chithra Adams on Prototyping in Program Design and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Program Design / February 24, 2016

I’m Chithra Adams, a program evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I explore how design principles and research can be applied to program evaluation. Rad Idea – prototyping: A key part of the design process is prototyping. Prototyping is a process by which ideas and concepts are tested for technical and social …

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Program Design Week: Alvin Yapp on Using Evaluation to Inform Program Design

Leave a Comment / Program Design / February 24, 2016

I’m Alvin Yapp, an evaluator with the Edmonton Oliver Primary Care Network (EOPCN), a team of doctors and other health providers, such as nurses, dietitians, kinesiologists, mental health workers, and pharmacists. We work as a team to provide coordinated primary health care to patients. I lead the evaluation efforts at EOPCN. In this post, I …

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Program Design Week: Marti Frank on using Non-violent communication to tell an evaluation story

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I’m Marti Frank, a researcher and program evaluator from Portland, Oregon. I’ve found the hardest part of a project is making recommendations that resonate with my client, and I’ve been working on an approach to developing and communicating recommendations that’s rooted in non-violent communication. Lessons Learned: Evaluation clients are naturally attached to their programs. Finding …

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Program Design Week: Alexey Kuzmin on Values in Program Design

Leave a Comment / Program Design / February 24, 2016

My name is Alexey Kuzmin and I am the Director of the Process Consulting Company based in Moscow, Russia (since 1992). We specialize in program evaluation and evaluation related services such as evaluation training; design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems. Often clients invite us to participate in program design. Lesson Learned: Values influence …

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Program Design Week: Terence Fitzgerald on Lessons Learned from Working on Program Design from Inside a Mission-Driven Organization

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Hello! I am Terence Fitzgerald, Senior Director of Program Design & Evaluation at International Justice Mission (IJM), a nonprofit organization that works to protect people from violent crime.  I lead a team of staff that provides leadership and technical support to IJM on program design, monitoring, evaluation, and research.  My team’s remit is to “bring …

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Program Design TIG Week: Angelina Lopez and Chi Yan Lam on the Rise of Design

Leave a Comment / Program Design / February 24, 2016

Hi! We’re Angelina Lopez (NYC Department of Education’s iZone) and Chi Yan Lam (Queen’s University) from the Program Design TIG. The PD-TIG was founded to provide a forum to explore the theory and practice of program design. Our TIG is proud to sponsor this week’s AEA365 posts. The contributors this week each work at the …

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