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CLEAR Week: Nidhi Khattri on Building systems of evaluations, not one evaluation at a time

I’m Nidhi Khattri from the CLEAR Global Hub at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group.  As a member of the team that got CLEAR up and running, I’ve been interested in how countries make evidence-based decisions, and the role that evaluation plays in that process. Coming from a research-based background where I was more concerned …

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CLEAR Week: Lycia Lima on Improving Impact Evaluation Planning

I am Lycia Lima, the executive coordinator of the newest CLEAR center- for Brazil and Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Africa. We’re formally joining CLEAR later this year and are planning our inauguration in October 2015. I was also one of the organizers involved in the formation of the Brazilian M&E Network – Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e …

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CLEAR Week: Urmy Shukla on Next steps in M&E capacity building: What happens after the training is over?

I’m Urmy Shukla, Capacity Building Manager at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, hosted by J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. Since our 2011 start with CLEAR we’ve developed a wide-range of activities aimed at improving monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity throughout the region, including 90 trainings for partners such …

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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña Advancing Evaluation of Climate Change in Latin America by Bringing Together Diverse Stakeholders

We are Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña, 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. We’re sharing our work in advancing knowledge in evaluating climate change and how we’re addressing it through the upcoming International …

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CLEAR Week: Zhao Min and Ningquin Wu on Experience of Establishing a Performance-based Budgeting System: The Case of Shanghai

We are Zhao Min, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) in Shanghai, China, and Ningquin Wu, Coordinator at AFDI. 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 …

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Sara Vaca on Fostering Creativity in Evaluation

Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. Creativity is another powerful tool evaluators can potentially use at certain points of the evaluation process to improve engagement or to solve eventual dead-ends or conflicts. So I have started posting about this subject and today I’m going to share my …

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Sheila B Robinson on the Top Ten aea365 Articles of 2014!

Hey aea365ers, Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with an update on what YOU are reading. Each year, we look at the top posts from the past year. We have to wait a bit since some posts get significant readership weeks or even months later! Lessons Learned: Here are the top posts of 2014, …

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MESI Week: Charmagne Campbell-Patton on Evaluation and Power Dynamics in a Social Justice Context

My name is Charmagne Campbell-Patton and I am an independent evaluator. This was my first year at MESI, and I really appreciated the focus on social justice. One of the main themes that ran across most of the presentations was the power that comes with the role of evaluator and our responsibility to use that …

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MESI Week: Mary Crave on What’s in Your Wallet? Or Back Pocket? Some handy questions for encouraging culturally sensitive evaluation

I’m Mary Crave. Among the many roles I play as an extension education specialist in Wisconsin, Africa, and elsewhere are those of facilitator of and advocate for participatory evaluation practices that engage vulnerable persons – those who often don’t often have a voice in their community. At the University of Wisconsin I focus on programs …

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MESI Week: Ravan Charles on Internalizing Cultural Competency

I am Ravan Charles, an evaluation newbie from Omaha, Nebraska. I’m writing about how my personal experience at the 2015 Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) Spring Training will influence the way I do evaluation for the rest of my life. I have to admit, I was skeptical when I saw the conference theme – ‘Social …

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