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Sheila B Robinson on Honoring our Living Evaluation Pioneers

Greetings loyal AEA365 readers: I’m Sheila B Robinson, our Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with an invitation to compose a very special AEA365 article. Who is your favorite evaluator? Who have you learned from? Who do you follow, collaborate with or just plain admire for their unique and significant contributions to our field? As you may …

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LAWG Week: Dana Keener Mast on Projects Based in Atlanta

Hello! My name is Dana Keener Mast. I am a senior manager at ICF International in our Atlanta office. ICF is currently working with the Healthcare Georgia Foundation to conduct a multi-year, multi-site evaluation of their childhood obesity prevention program. As part of this project, ICF provides ongoing evaluation technical assistance to four Georgia community …

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LAWG Week: Linda Vo-Green, Krista Collins and Lindsey Barranco on Join us in Atlanta for Evaluation 2016

We are Linda Vo-Green, Krista Collins and Lindsey Barranco of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA), and your chairs for the Local Arrangements Working Group for Evaluation 2016 in Atlanta. AaEA was initiated in 2000 to provide our 400+ community of local evaluators with networking and professional development opportunities. We work closely with the local Independent …

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Lauren Spigel, Korinne Chiu, and Emma Sunnassee on Using Automated Data for Program Monitoring

Hi, our names are Lauren Spigel, Korinne Chiu, and Emma Sunnassee. We are from VaxTrac, a global health nonprofit that builds, implements and evaluates a mobile vaccine registry system for developing health systems. Our collective backgrounds are in evaluation, global health and mobile health (mHealth). mHealth is an emerging field that takes advantage of the …

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Steve Powell on Theory Maker: Free web app for drawing Theory of Change diagrams

My name is Steve Powell and I’m an evaluator based in Sarajevo, Bosnia. I’m very interested in theories of change and their role in evaluation – both explicit theories (perhaps a programme’s logframe) and implicit (what is really going on, or what people really think is going on). I think it’s important to be able …

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Jessica Zulawski on Using data strategically to strengthen schools

My name is Jessica Zulawski and I am passionate about evaluating educational interventions and teaching others about how to effectively use program evaluation to strengthen organizational effectiveness. I currently work as the Data and Evaluate Associate at Broome Street Academy and as Senior Evaluation Trainer at Evaluate for Change. In both of my roles, I …

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Liz Zadnik on Web accessibility and building an inclusive online space

Happy holiday weekend everyone!  I’m Liz Zadnik, AEA365 Outreach Coordinator with another post on accessibility – today we’ll be focusing on web accessibility.  We can build off of the concepts in last month’s post, while also thinking about how to make sure as many people as possible can access our online content. In addition to …

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CLEAR Week: Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa on Peer learning as a context-relevant method

I’m Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa, working with CLEAR Anglophone Africa to coordinate the Twende Mbele programme, a collaborative initiative started by the governments of Uganda, Benin, and South Africa to strengthen national M&E systems in the region. The programme is taking an approach of “peer learning and exchange” to achieve this, in response to an overall …

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