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Data Collection Tool or Intervention? Why Choose? by Annette Ghee and Emily Carnahan

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 4, 2022

Greetings. We are Annette Ghee and Emily Carnahan, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) professionals with a focus on digital health – the use of technology to enhance health outcomes. Annette works with the Digital for Development and Innovation team at World Vision International and Emily is on the Digital Square team at PATH. Although we focus …

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Using Developmental Evaluation to Design and Implement Public Health Programs During Times of Crisis by Emily Costello, Julia Bleser, Tracy Wharton, Shakiera Causey, and Oscar Espinosa

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 1, 2022

Hello, we are Emily Costello, Julia Bleser, Tracy Wharton, Shakiera Causey, and Oscar Espinosa, and are the National Network of Public Health Institutes’ Research and Evaluation Team. For the last few years, we have been collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate public health-focused programs addressing many of the challenges and …

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IC TIG Week: Why So Serious? Using Creative Humor to Facilitate Engagement and Skill Development in Evaluation by Emma Duer

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 21, 2022

I used to work in a pet store, but people were always asking how big I’d get (apologies to Rodney Dangerfield). Jokes aside for a moment, I am Emma Duer, Vice President of Program Evaluation at Dainis & Company, Inc. As a small independent firm, we often use our flexibility to bring maximum creativity and …

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DVR TIG Week: Insights-to-Action: An Intentional Process by Kendra Thompson-Dyck and Deven Wisner

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 20, 2022

Hello there! We’re Kendra Thompson-Dyck, Ph.D. and Deven Wisner, M.S. of Assessment and Research at the University of Arizona. We want to share an insights to action approach we used to share information and get feedback/buy-in from constituent groups. We think this could work for many projects, regardless of topic. Recently, we set out to …

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LAWG Week: Evaluation and Inclusion: Lessons Learned at the Split Second Foundation by Michelle Lawrence Bidwell and Mark Raymond Jr.

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 12, 2022

Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …

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ICCE TIG Week: Evaluating Sustainability: How Do We Measure Up? by Jindra Cekan/ova

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 1, 2022

Welcome to sustainability! I’m Jindra Cekan/ova, 30+ years in global development, founder of Valuing Voices, Sustainable Solutions for Excellent Impact. There is a compelling need to prove international projects and programs are as sustainable and long-term as we promise.  However, evaluators of foreign aid during project implementation have a very limited set of tools with …

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ICCE TIG Week: The Self-Reliance Index: Supporting the Self-Reliance of Displaced Persons Through Data by Amy Gray, Ned Meerdink, and Simar Singh

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 1, 2022

Hi! We are Amy Gray, Senior Program Officer For Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Ned Meerdink, Senior Programs Officer, and Simar Singh, Senior Programs Manager at RefugePoint, an international organization advancing lasting solutions for at-risk refugees, and supporting the humanitarian community to do the same. According to UNHCR’s 2022 Global Appeal, the number of forcibly …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Importance of Building Relationships with STEM Education Program Staff for Successful Evaluation Process by Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training / April 11, 2022

Hi Everyone. I am Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos, Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Program Development and Assessment at the Institute for Biomedical Philosophy.  My research interests include partnership formation, broadening participation, scientific literacy, and student success in research.  I provide professional development training on inter-institutional collaborations, building consensus, and partnership formation.  Just as it is …

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EPE TIG Week: Evaluators as Data Shepherds by Rupu Gupta and Arika Virapongse

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 11, 2022

Hi, We are Rupu Gupta, Program-Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group, and Co-Chair of the Community Resilience Cluster within Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), and Arika Virapongse, Chair of ESIP’s Community Resilience Cluster, Director of Middle Path EcoSolutions, and Community Director of the Ronin Institute. With multiple hats on, we’re raising a …

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Social Work TIG Week: I.M.P.A.C.T. Framework in Social Work Practice by Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo and Norma Martínez-Rubin

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 25, 2022

We are Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo (principal of TERSHA LLC, a Ghanaian-American who embraces her intersectional facets of being a wife and mom in her work, and is a community scholar-activist who found her path from engineering into public health. Her work is rooted in culturally responsive and equitable tools for co-designing research and evaluation initiatives with …

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