Dear friends, I am Deborah L. Rugg, PhD, President, Evaluation Consultants LLC. I have spent 40 wonderful years navigating the global evaluation landscape, seeking to make a difference, always building on my core values and passion for public health and serving the underserved, fighting at the nexus of science and the politics that undergirds the …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Do You Want to Have an Impactful Career in a Large Organization? Learn These Things First!! by Deborah L. Rugg Read More »

Have you ever wondered how to ensure your monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices are culturally sensitive and effective when working with populations who may have experienced trauma? This is a critical question for international and cross-cultural evaluators, as a significant portion of programs worldwide serve individuals and communities facing complex challenges. I am Janice D’souza, …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Why Trauma-Informed Data Collection is Essential in Monitoring and Evaluation by Janice D’souza Read More »

Hello! We are Charles Guedenet, an MEL Advisor at IREX and PhD student, and Jennifer Villalobos, Professor of Evaluation Practice at Claremont Graduate University. We are both AI pragmatists. Today’s mainstream AI narratives oscillate between excitement about the possibilities of AI augmenting humans, on one hand, and anxiety over job security and its misuse on …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Co-creating the AI-mediated Era of Evaluation by Charles Guedenet and Jennifer Villalobos Read More »

Hello AEA community, I’m Chunling Niu, and today I want to explore how integrating community values and cultural heritage can transform evaluations and enhance outcomes for underprivileged groups around the world. Understanding Values and Heritage as Assets When we talk about community values and cultural heritage, we’re referring to the shared beliefs, practices, and historical …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Leveraging Community Values and Cultural Heritage in Evaluating Programs for Underprivileged Groups by Chunling Niu Read More »

Hi there AEA friends! Have you been trying to figure out the best ways to build trusting, equitable relationships in evaluation with diverse communities and foster an inclusive environment where all voices are valued? Have you felt your approaches to evaluation have gone under-recognized or under-valued? So have we! We are Julie Poncelet and Jude …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: An Evaluation Journey: Seven Stops to a More Transformative, Equitable, and Harm-Reduction Evaluation Process by Julie Poncelet and Jude Kallick Read More »

Greetings! We are the Ananse team, a collaborative of solo and small evaluation firms. We come together from Arbor West Consulting (Jamaica), Auricle Services (Nigeria), BLE Solutions (USA), and the Institute for Peace and Development (Ghana). As strategy evaluation partner for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative (CSI), we wanted to identify an …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Using Storytelling to Understand Network Capacity Strengthening by Toyin Akpan, Carlisle Levine, Melisa March, and Hippolyt Pul Read More »

Hello! I am Dr. Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, this year’s Chair of the ICCE TIG and Principal of TERSHA LLC. I am excited to announce the blog posts for the ICCE TIG Week. As a Ghanaian American in the diaspora, I was raised by my grandmother with an Indigenous Ewe upbringing. In my rich West African heritage, …

International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Weaving Stories Across Disciplines and Experiences by Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo Read More »