Greetings from Carolina De La Rosa Mateo, Vidhya Shanker, and Nayantara Premakumar, co-creators of The May 13 Group Podcast. We have been asked to share about our budding initiative. What is The May 13 Group? The May 13 Group is an emerging ecosystem—a solidarity economy—oriented toward and energized by epistemic healing and wholeness in, through, …

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group (WG): Introducing The May 13 Group Podcast: Your Friendly Nonprofit/Nongovernmental-industrial-complex Deprogramming Chamber by Carolina De La Rosa Mateo, Vidhya Shanker, and Nayantara Premakumar Read More »

Aaniin indinawemaaganag (Hello friends/colleagues). I’m Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro/Biidaabinikwe (St. Croix Chippewa/Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe), Independent Evaluation and Research Consultant, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Minnesota, and co-chair of AEA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group.

We are Asma Ali, Diana Lemos, Kantahyanee Murray, and Elizabeth Taylor–Schiro. Collectively, we are serving as members of the AEA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group. One of our four central charges was to systematically examine association policies and procedures through a lens of diversity, equity and inclusion. As a subgroup, we and our …

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group (WG):  Organizational Analysis and Recommendations through the Water of Systems Change Framework by Asma Ali, Diana Lemos, Kantahyanee Murray and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro Read More »

Hi, I’m Diana Lemos, PhD, MPH, and I have been a DEI workgroup member since its inception. Today, I will offer some reflections on the tool development process. 

To systematically examine AEA’s programs, policies, and practices through a lens of DEI, sub-group #4 of the working group has been developing an assessment tool. The five members of this sub-group underwent a collaborative process to explore existing tools that could provide a foundation for the assessment tool. The workgroup selected the FSG’s Water of Systems Change framework, which focuses on six conditions of systems change (Figure 1) to advance equity. One compelling reason for selecting this tool was its emphasis on the explicit, semi-explicit and the implicit factors that must change in order to truly impact systems.

We are Ayesha Boyce, Dylan Felt, Nisaa Kirtman and Stephen Maack. Starting in January of 2022, the DEI Metrics and Assessments subgroup was tasked with recommending indicators and measures of diversity, equity and inclusion relevant to the governance of the Association to be used in future evaluation of board performance.

Greetings from Jen Heeg, Donna Mertens, Esther Nolton, Vidhya Shanker, and Libby Smith. Together, we are developing AEA’s updated DEI statement. In fulfilling Charge #1, we found ourselves resorting organically to cooking metaphors. While not premeditated, upon reflection, we appreciated and began intentionally cultivating the metaphor because it honors types of knowledge and work that evaluation, its antecedent disciplines, and its surrounding industries have devalued and displaced.

We are Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro, Nisaa Kirtman, and Vidhya Shanker, Co-Chairs of AEA’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group (WG) since 2021. As the WG shifts to a Task Force this year, we wanted to offer some reflections we hope will be useful to the work’s next iteration. As women-identified evaluation scholar-practitioners, parents, and activists/organizers who …

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group (WG): Reflections on Leading AEA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts: Achievements and Challenges by Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro, Nisaa Kirtman, and Vidhya Shanker Read More »

Hello, AEA365! I am Rashimi Agrawal a founding member of Evaluation Community of India (ECOI) and a member of the Governing Board, Community of Evaluators, South Asia (CoE, SA), and a practitioner of development evaluation for over three decades. I am also a member of IDEAc, and managing group of EvalGender+. Evaluation capacity development is my passion and after my several years of association with Government sector, I now work as independent M&E consultant.

Hello, we are Rasmus Heltberg (rheltberg@worldbank.org) Lead Evaluation Specialist at World Bank, Independent Evaluation Group and Tamar Gutner (Tgutner@american.edu), Associate Professor at American University. To be transformative, evaluation needs to lift its gaze from individual programs and projects and consider the global systems in which international organizations operate.  We believe that it is important to understand and evaluate how international organizations work together.