Hi, I’m Sue Hoechstetter, lead developer and keeper of advocacy capacity assessment tools at Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program. I want to share with you about a new project to investigate and use advocates’ experiences to help evaluators, advocates, and funders better assess nonprofits’ efforts to “speak their truths” to policy decision-makers. In these …
Greetings! My name is Nnenia Campbell, and I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center as well as an independent evaluation consultant specializing in disaster-related programming. As an alumna of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program, I frequently consider how I can engage in culturally responsive evaluation or …
We are Jenny McCullough Cosgrove, Nicole Huggett, and Deven Wisner, the 2017-2018 conference planning committee for the AEA Arizona Local Affiliate, the Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENet). This year, we built off of the momentum from the inspiring #Eval17 AEA conference, to bring focus and meaningful attention to inclusion and equity in evaluative practice at our …
Hello, AEA folks! This is Jay Wade from PIE Org, a strategic partner of Become, and I am an evaluation capacity building (ECB) nerd! As a practitioner of ECB, I always wonder…what happens after our contract ends? Do organizations sustain evaluation practice? It turns out…they do! As part of my dissertation, I looked into the …
BECOME Week: Evaluation Capacity Building Sustainability by Jay Wade Read More »
Hello, my name is Michel Laurendeau, and I am a consultant wishing to share over 40 years of experience in policy development, performance measurement and evaluation of public programs. This is the sixth of seven (7) consecutive AEA365 posts discussing a stepwise approach to integrating performance measurement and evaluation strategies in order to more effectively …
Hello! My name is Jennifer Obinna and I am Research and Evaluation Director at The Improve Group, a consulting firm in Minnesota. Our evaluation practice strongly supports and encourages evaluation capacity development with our clients. One of the various ways we do so is to facilitate logic model clinics as a way to assist clients …
Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services (DES). DES serves many individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) who are applying for public benefits due to a disability. As an organization, we are committed to promoting meaningful access for individuals …
We are Akashi Kaul, third year graduate student at George Mason University, and Rodney Hopson, former AEA president and professor at George Mason University. Our reflection for this Memorial Day series is on what “participation” means. We highlight three things: (1) the ambiguity around participation’ since it exists in evaluation as both theory and method; …
Memorial Week in Evaluation: Participation as Buzzword by Akashi Kaul and Rodney Hopson Read More »
I’m Robert Picciotto, director general of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank from 1992 to 2002. I oversaw evaluation there and in its sister institution, the International Finance Corporation, which uses equity finance to promote private sector development. Evaluators charged with assessing the growing impact of the private sector in the social sphere …
SIM TIG Week: Will Impact Investing Fulfill Its Development Promise? by Robert Picciotto Read More »
This is John Fischetti, Dean of Education/Head of School, at the University of Newcastle in Australia. We are one of Australia’s largest providers of new teachers and postgraduate degrees for current educators. We are committed to equity and social justice as pillars of practice, particularly in evaluation and assessment. Hot Tips: We are in a climate …
