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CLEAR Week: Lycia Lima, Aline D’Angelo, Dalila Figueirdo and Lucas Finamor on Convincing policymakers to fund M&E at times of financial crisis

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 23, 2016 June 19, 2016

We’re Lycia Lima, Executive Coordinator, Aline D’Angelo and Dalila Figueiredo, Project Managers and Lucas Finamor, Researcher of FGV/CLEAR for Brazil and Lusophone Africa. The Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Brazil and Lusophone Africa (FGV/CLEAR) is based at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a Brazilian think tank and higher education institution, dedicated to promoting …

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CLEAR Week: Marike Noordhoek on Knowledge management and learning: the glue connecting M&E efforts to use of the evidence generated

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 22, 2016 June 19, 2016

I’m Marike Noordhoek, Senior Knowledge Management Officer at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, which houses the CLEAR Global Hub. The Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR Initiative) is a unique global monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity development program to promote the use of evidence in decision-making. Given our field of work, “knowledge management …

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CLEAR Week: Gabriela Perez Yarahuan, Ana Ramírez Valencia, Indrani Barrón Illescas and Emil Salim Miyar on Organizing a National M&E Conference Collaboratively and Across Cities

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 21, 2016 June 19, 2016

We are Gabriela Perez Yarahuan, Ana Ramírez Valencia, Indrani Barrón Illescas and Emil Salim Miyar, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. Recently, in May 2016, we worked with other M&E leading groups in Mexico to co-organize the …

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CLEAR Week: Ningqin Wu and Amy Chen on Using instant messaging services such as WeChat to connect stakeholders across country and language boundaries

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 19, 2016 June 19, 2016

We’re Ningqin Wu and Amy Chen, both coordinators at AFDI – the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) in Shanghai, China. AFDI is a member of the CLEAR Initiative (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results) and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. CLEAR promotes evaluation capacity building in regional centers across the globe. This week’s blogs are by CLEAR members. …

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Sheila B Robinson on Additional Remembrances of Evaluation Pioneers

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 18, 2016 June 18, 2016

Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea35’s Lead Curator with some additional tributes to evaluation pioneers and their enduring contributions to our field. Bob Stake on Remembering Tom Hastings It is I, Bob Stake, wishing to pay honor to my mentor, Tom Hastings, one of the pioneers of the evaluation profession. In the late 40s, Tom was …

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Liz Zadnik on “Everything should be as simple as it can be, yet no simpler.”

3 Comments / Uncategorized / June 11, 2016 June 11, 2016

Happy Saturday folks! Liz Zadnik here and today we’re focusing on creating accessible content. I am pretty passionate about accessibility – thanks to some brilliant and even more passionate colleagues – and believe as social change agents, advocates for marginalized communities, and professionals seeking to elevate unheard voices we have a commitment to making sure …

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Josh Twomey and Joan Johnston on Driving Change: Tips for Helping Stakeholders Stay Motivated

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 10, 2016 June 3, 2016

Hello! We’re Josh Twomey and Joan Johnston, from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR). One of the more rewarding opportunities for evaluators is to work with organizations endeavoring towards seismic change. Our own work focuses on helping large medical organizations restructure services to integrate behavioral health care into traditional primary care …

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Sarah Singer on The Value of Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 9, 2016 June 2, 2016

Hi, I’m Sarah Singer, Research Associate at Hezel Associates in Syracuse, NY. I am not an expert in cost analysis by a long shot, but have become increasingly aware of its potential as a component of a program evaluation, particularly for education programs. My post today offers my reflections and some things to consider, from …

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Margit van Wessel on “Advocacy for Development, Effectiveness, Monitoring, and Evaluation”

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 8, 2016 June 9, 2016

I am Margit van Wessel and I work at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). From 2012 to 2015 I was part of a team of 10 evaluators conducting a joint evaluation of 8 advocacy programmes in the field of International Development, supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Being an evaluation of advocacy for development …

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