Hi, I am Daniel Brandão, impact director at Vox Capital, the first Brazilian impact asset manager. We hold U$150 million in assets under management and our goal is to offer financial returns to our clients alongside positive impact for people and the planet. In the IMM sessions during the NOLA´s AEA conference, a question was …
My name is John Gargani. I’m a former AEA President, and I have a deep interest in how impact investors, social entrepreneurs, and other new actors measure their impact. At Evaluation 2022, I introduced the idea of Zones of Greater Scrutiny, or ZOGS, to help evaluators defend against impact washing. In this post, I describe …
Hi! I’m Courtney Bolinson, evaluation consultant and founder of Head and Heart Evaluation. During the AEA conference in New Orleans this past November, I helped evaluators gain an understanding of the corporate context and where it overlaps with evaluation via a teaching case. The teaching case described a fictional consultancy where evaluator Eva Lee is …
Hi, I am Andrea Azevedo, a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practitioner who very recently moved from leading MEL in the social justice sector to the brave new world of impact management and measurement (IMM) for impact investments with Soros Economic Development Fund. In this blog, I want to share three questions with MEL practitioners …
My name is Andrea Nelson Trice, PhD. I have conducted research on cross-cultural power dynamics for more than two decades and have served as an external evaluator for almost that long.
My name is Brooke Hill and I am an international development evaluation expert, with a focus on large-scale quantitative surveys throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In a typical evaluation, my workplan includes at least one dissemination and feedback workshop. Participants typically include the client or donor, government officials, and sector experts. While these …
My name is Abhirup Bhunia, and I am an international development Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Expert. I have worked on MEL and Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA; adaptive management) mandates across sectors for several years with many bilateral/multilateral institutions including USAID, United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and …
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Hi, I’m Phuong Pham. In my current role as Research Director for the USAID Learns activity, I lead a team providing research services to USAID/Vietnam and its implementing partners. We try to ensure that our values around engaging local stakeholders in evidence generation and use, and prioritizing local voices in our work spread to our …
Hi, I’m Tanya A. Garnett. Decades of research have provided the evidence base that social norms, and particularly gender inequality, lead to divergent development outcomes. There is a body of literature that details the myriad ways development actors, including practitioners and evaluators, ignore the complex social realities in which they operate, however, many actors continue …
My name is Femi Gisanrin, and I have spent the past 12 years providing monitoring, evaluation, and learning support to donors and implementers across Nigeria. These experiences have led me to reflect on the importance of engaging the implementer in evaluation and how inclusion impacts the effectiveness of our work. The implementers and other stakeholders …
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