Hi again! I’m Sara Vaca, independent evaluation consultant and one of the frequent contributors to Saturday posts in this blog. As a newbie in academic circles (I started writing 5 years ago, shortly after started evaluating), I am going to share my thoughts about bibliography sections, both as an author and as a reader. Basically, …
Making Bibliography Sections More User-Friendly by Sara Vaca Read More »
Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor of this blog. Ever since I started my evaluation practice and became a consultant, my life has enormously change (I would say for good!) in comparison with the 10-year period when I used to work for organizations with a 9am-to-5pm office schedule. Those whose are …
Hi there! I’m Sara Vaca (frequent Saturday contributor to this blog), independent consultant, and I recently started working for ImpactMapper as the Evaluation and Client Success Manager. As many of you know, since 2011, rather than English, I use Data Visualization as my second language (my first language is text 😉 ). Early on, I …
My Favorite Features In Powerpoint And Illustrator for Creating Visuals by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hello, AEA365 readers! I’m Sara Vaca (frequent Saturday contributor to this blog), independent consultant specializing in evaluation of international development and in playing with data visualization. Since the start of my practice which started almost at the same time as my passion for dataviz, I’ve always had a website that has evolved over the years. …
What I Have Learned From Having A Website/Blog For 7 Years by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, AEA365 family! I’m Sara Vaca (frequent Saturday contributor to this blog), independent consultant specializing in evaluation of international development programmes and policies, and I’m platonically in love with Participation. Here is my practical relationship with it so far, though. Hot Tip: I understand participation as including many different actors, preferably those who have less …
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 »
Hey there! I’m Sara Vaca (evaluation consultant) and here is my monthly Saturday post. I want to share how I try to introduce Gender perspective in every evaluation (regardless of the Terms of Reference (ToRs) mentioning it or not). Lessons Learned: I heard during my Masters in Evaluation that many evaluations are gender-blind, and that …
My “Home-Made” Evaluation Tools to Avoid Gender (and Equity) Blindness by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, I am Sara Vaca (Independent Evaluator and Saturday’s contributor to this blog). One concern evaluators and commissioners share is how to operationalize the evaluation questions. That is: how to articulate that the link between the evaluation questions (what we want to know or confirm) and the data collection (what we are actually asking and …
About Evaluation Matrixes by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, dear readers! I’m Sara Vaca (independent consultant and Data Visualization lover, Saturday eventual contributor to this blog) and I thought of starting the year by sharing tips about something people sometimes ask me. Leason Learned: Becoming slightly obsessed with something helps. I discovered Dataviz in 2011 while I started on Twitter, during a maternity …
7 Tips To Get Started with Data Visualization by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, I am Sara Vaca (Independent Evaluator and Saturday’s contributor to this blog). Recently, I decided to use the opportunity that AEA365 gives us as a platform to share our thoughts, and I shared my top 10 evaluation doubts. As soon as I posted it, other doubts emerged too. Given that I received quite a …
Sharing My Evaluation Doubts (II) by Sara Vaca Read More »
