Greetings! We are Phung Pham and Ann Marie Castleman, emerging evaluators from Claremont Graduate University. In reflecting on transformational change, we have been thinking about what may be our emerging evaluators’ ethos. Today marks the second anniversary of the World Health Organization being officially informed about what is now known as SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus …
Hello. I am Jaideep Visave from Italy, with 9 years of professional experience in implementing and evaluating disaster risk reduction projects in Asia and Europe. Examples of my work include an impact assessment for the ‘Maharashtra Disaster Risk Management Program’ and outcome mapping for ‘Urban Risk Reduction’ in Thane, Sangli, and Ratnagiri districts of India. …
I am Michael Ojo, a YEE interested in helping organisations demonstrate the impact of their work. I have had the opportunity of working with charities, a public sector organisation in the UK, as well as within donor funded projects in the global south. This blog is a reflection from my experience as a YEE on …
Aaniin indinawemaaganag (Hello friends/colleagues). I’m Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro/Biidaabinikwe (St. Croix Chippewa/Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe), Independent Evaluation and Research Consultant and PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota. As a young and emerging evaluator (YEE), when I consider transformational learning and change, my definitions of transformation, learning, and what it takes to make a change are different …
Greetings! We are J.R. Moller and Taruna Gupta. J.R. is a PhD candidate at UNC Greensboro in Educational Research Methodology where she centers her evaluation practice on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Taruna is a freelance researcher and evaluator from Kenya. Power has many associations, both negative and positive. Regardless of its form, power is pervasive …
YEE Week: Power, the Status Quo, and the Individual by J.R. Moller and Taruna Gupta Read More »
My name is Scott Chaplowe and I have been an active member of the AEA since 2002, currently serving on its International Working Group. It is a privilege to be introducing this themed week featuring the wisdom from young and emerging evaluators (YEE). For those who attended AEA’s Eval21 Reimagined last month, you might recognize …
Holiday’s greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, lead curator of the blog. Since 2010, Kylie Hutchinson has been sharing a Christmas carol adaptation with an evaluation theme. It’s come to be a tradition here at AEA365, and something to which I know our readers look forward. It is bittersweet news, then, to share with you …
God Rest Ye Merry Grantseekers by Kylie Hutchinson Read More »
Hello everybody! My name is Chris Lysy, and I’m a freelance information designer and a creative reporting workshop facilitator (diydatadesign.com). I also blog and cartoon about evaluation and design at freshspectrum.com. It’s Christmastime in our household, so that means it’s time to switch from the unending string of professional Zoom calls to the somewhat smaller …
An Evaluator’s Guide to the Holidays by Chris Lysy Read More »
Hi, we are Lila Burgos, Tsuyoshi Onda, and Cristina Magaña from Harder+Company Community Research. Despite variations in methods and frameworks, evaluators approach evaluation as a form of evidence-based truth telling that’s most effective when those truths can be shared directly and honestly. We are often asked to make the ‘business case’ for funding programs in …
Hi, my name is Elena Pinzon O’Quinn and I am the National Learning and Evaluation Director at LIFT. I have been a nonprofit internal evaluator for most of my career. The nonprofits I have worked with engage in ongoing performance measurement for the goal of using data for continuous program improvement. Stakeholders need to see …
Building a Culture of Data for Decision Making By Elena Pinzon O’Quinn Read More »
