Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca (independent evaluator), bringing my monthly Saturday post. I started consulting in 2013 and I must have conducted 20-ish evaluations since then. In order to do that, I must have sent out 100-ish proposal applications. Here are some reflections from that experience… Lessons Learned: About how it works Once you …
Lessons Learned from Applying for 100+ Evaluations by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, I am Goele Scheers, an independent M&E consultant based in Belgium. I have worked closely with Ricardo Wilson-Grau since Outcome Harvesting (OH) was being developed and was working on an OH evaluation with him throughout his final year of life. I have always used OH for both monitoring and evaluation. Outcome Harvesting works well …
Outcome Harvesting Week: Outcome Harvesting as a Monitoring Approach by Goele Scheers Read More »
Hello, we are your blog series hosts, Barbara Klugman, Heather Britt and Heidi Schaeffer, colleagues of Ricardo Wilson-Grau, the originator of Outcome Harvesting. Ricardo mentored and inspired many members of the AEA community. Sadly, he passed away on December 31, 2018. This series of posts on Outcome Harvesting is …
My name is Mary Lou D’Allegro and I am the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Columbia State Community College. I am responsible for the quality of our programs and the faculty who teach in those programs. There is not much that is NOT evaluated in higher education. The double negative was intended. Yet, for all …
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Vidhya Shanker here, from Rainbow Research. Previously, I explained intersectionality—despite cooptation by contemporary organizations vying for funding—as a centuries-old concept borne from subjugated knowledge and liberation struggles as valuable for situation analyses. Today, I examine intersectionality’s value in relation to certain dimensions of program theory. Lessons Learned: Before becoming an evaluator, I spent years fighting …
Hi! I’m Omoshalewa Bamkole, an Evaluation Fellow in the Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD) in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I recently worked with colleagues to host a data party for internal stakeholders for the first time! What’s a data party? …
Welcome to Internal Evaluation Week, hosted by the Internal Evaluation TIG! This week’s blogs focus on the theme of improvement: as internal evaluators, how are we ensuring that insights are being used to inform program and organizational improvement? Topics include improvement science, communities of practice, and participatory data interpretation. Hi, my name is Ali Holstein …
IE TIG Week: Empowering Staff with the Tools to Improve Their Programs by Ali Holstein Read More »
Hello! I’m Fiona Remnant, founder of a small UK social enterprise set up to continue developing and applying QuIP – a new qualitative social impact assessment tool, from research conducted in the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath. The problem? The QuIP team have been experimenting with a form of ‘goal-free’ evaluation …
DVR TIG Week: TIG Data Visualization by Fiona Remnant Read More »
Hi, my name is Elizabeth DiLuzio. I’m an evaluation and learning specialist passionate about telling an organization’s story with data, and I’m the Manager of Evaluation and Learning at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. Today, I want to share two data visualization techniques that can enable you to report about your constituents in …
Hi, I’m Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy support and conduct evaluations with social justice funders, NGOs, networks and leadership training institutions in South Africa and internationally. This blog is about the value of establishing an Evaluation Advisory Group when your task requires more skills that you have! I’m currently the ‘learning and assessment partner’ of …
