Dear Colleagues, My name is Michele Tarsilla ( Twitter @ MiEval_TuEval) and I work as Evaluation Adviser at the UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa (I am also Associate Editor of the African Evaluation Journal). Today, I would like to share with you 5 tips and 10 resources on how to better engage …
Hi, I am Chris Cartwright, an independent consultant specializing in assessing intercultural competence and global inclusive leadership. And I am Karyl Askew, an independent program evaluation consultant specializing in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation. We are members of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN), a local AEA affiliate. Along with Kari Greene, Sam Mehoke, and …
I’m Linda Stern, Director of Evaluation & Learning at the National Democratic Institute. I also lead a Research, Evaluation & Learning (REL) initiative with seven other democracy, human rights and labor (DRL) organizations under the Fundamental Freedoms Fund (FFF). Sponsored by the US Department of State, the objective of our consortium initiative is to build …
Hi evaluators! I am Dylan Diggs, the chair of AEA’s Democracy, Human Rights and Governance topical interest group and an evaluator with the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL). I’m here to announce that it’s “Democracy Week” at AEA in honor of the United Nation’s International Day of Democracy on …
DemTIG Week: Democracy Day Turns into Democracy Week by Dylan Diggs Read More »
I am Zenda Ofir, South African scientist and evaluator. I work from local to global level with a special focus on Africa and Asia. Do you know that every cup of coffee you drink in your favorite chain of US coffee shops pushes a coffee farmer in the Global South deeper into poverty and despair? …
I am Robert Picciotto, University of Auckland, New Zealand contributing to this week’s USA Labor Day reflections. Labor Day 2020: International Context Covid-19 has triggered the largest economic depression in world history; increased unemployment; destroyed small enterprises; aggravated social inequities and laid bare the inadequacy and inequity of social service systems, especially in countries that …
Happy Saturday! My name is Charmagne Campbell-Patton, and I am the Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation at Utilization-Focused Evaluation. I have the privilege of working with my father, Michael Quinn Patton, affectionately known as MQP to many of you. Michael is a founding member of AEA, frequent contributor to this blog and a mentor …
75th Birthday Tribute to MQP by Charmagne Campbell-Patton Read More »
(Spanish version) Hello! We are Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos, PhD students studying community psychology with interests in health equity research, implementation science, and equitable evaluation with Indigenous and Latinx communities. We wanted to share our experiences completing community-engaged evaluation internships in the context of first-generation doctoral students and in relation to engaging marginalized …
(Spanish version) ?Saludos! We are Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Susana Morales and David Garcia from the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) Topical Interest Group (TIG). We are excited to be kicking off this AEA365 week in advance of Hispanic/Latino/Latinx heritage month which begins mid-September. To center Latinx voices in evaluation, one must first recognize that …
My name is Leanne Kallemeyn, and I am currently a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group. As we get ready for the 2020 virtual AEA conference, I want to address a change that was planned prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you submitted a proposal, you may recall that you were asked to …
Getting Ready for the Conference with the AEA Guiding Principles by Leanne Kallemeyn Read More »
