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Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG Week: Transformative Feminist Evaluation and Empowerment of Women and Girls by Donna M. Mertens and Julie Newton

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / February 25, 2017

Hi, we are Donna M. Mertens, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University and a long time member and past President of the American Evaluation Association and Julie Newton, Senior Advisor in the Gender Team at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in the Netherlands. We connected because of Julie’s interest in innovative evaluation strategies to measure the …

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Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG Week: Participatory methods enable women to analyse shifts in power by Francesca D’Emidio, Liisa Kytola, Sarah Henon, and Eva Otero

5 Comments / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / March 10, 2017

We are Francesca D’Emidio, Liisa Kytola, and Sarah Henon from ActionAid, and Eva Otero from Leitmotiv consultants. ActionAid is a global federation working to achieve social justice and poverty eradication by transforming unequal gendered power relations. We’d like to share an evaluation methodology tested in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Guatemala to measure shifts in power in …

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An Annual Call for Blog Posts! by Sheila B Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 27, 2017

Greetings aea365 readers AND authors! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks ago, I wrote this post asking what you would like to read about on aea365 in 2017. Many thanks to those who offered comments with ideas for posts. Now, I’m writing to ask YOU to consider contributing a post on …

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Competencies Task Force Week: Hazel Symonette and Sandra Ayoo on the Interpersonal Domain

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 8, 2016

*AEA365 Curator Note: My apologies to aea365 subscribers! Some of this week’s posts did not go out via email to our subscribers. Please read this post on the site itself (http://aea365.org/blog/), and be sure to scroll back to the first post of this series on December 4 in order to enjoy and learn about the overview …

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Competencies Task Force Week: Laurie Stevahn, Donna Podems and Nicole Galport on the Professional Domain

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 8, 2016

This is Laurie Stevahn, Seattle University, Donna Podems, OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, and Nicole Galport, Claremont Graduate University, members of AEA’s Evaluator Competencies Task Force. The work of our task force has been guided by a grounding question: What is fundamental to the practice of evaluators? Competencies that comprise the 2/24/16 DRAFT Professional Domain are …

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Labor Day Week: Sonja Evensen and Judith Inazu on Honoring Lois-Ellin Datta

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 28, 2016

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). Aloha, we are Sonja Evensen, Evaluation Senior Specialist at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, and Judith Inazu, Acting Director, Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawai’i. In 2006, we worked together to establish the …

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Labor Day Week: Melvin Hall on Honoring Karen Kirtkhart

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 28, 2016

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). Greetings, I am Melvin Hall, a current AEA Board Member and program evaluation specialist for over forty years. I have had many excellent mentors throughout my career including Tom Hastings, Bob Stake, Terry Denny, and …

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Labor Day Week: Erin Bock on Honoring Nora Murphy

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 28, 2016

Hi there, I’m Erin Bock, Director of Research and Evaluation for The Sherwood Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska. I am writing to honor Nora Murphy as a leader in “Next Generation” evaluation. Why I chose to honor this evaluator: I met Nora while an evaluation newbie. I was struck by her “special sauce” of authenticity, passionate …

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Jeff Sheldon on empowerment evaluation practice and principle effects on psychological empowerment and self – determination outcomes

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 30, 2016

I’m Jeff Sheldon and today I’m introducing the results of a study of 131 evaluation practitioners that I hope will inform the way you think about empowerment evaluation. In brief, this study: 1) identified the extent of implementation fidelity to the three empowerment evaluation models; 2) described the extent to which the empowerment evaluation process …

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CP TIG Week: Brian Hoessler on Finding The Best of Both Worlds

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / June 20, 2016

My name is Brian Hoessler, and I am the founder and principal of Strong Roots Consulting in Saskatoon, Canada. Actually, my business cards refer to me as Connector-in-Chief, because that’s how I see my evaluation and research work with non-profits: connecting questions with data, dreams with designs, and plans with reality. I also see my …

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