AEA365 – Page 321 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Liz Zadnik on Five people who have shaped and inspired the way I think about evaluation

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 23, 2015 May 21, 2015

Hi everyone! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and occasional Saturday poster. Today I’d like to chat about a few people who have shaped the way I approach and appreciate evaluation. Lesson Learned: Feminism is for everybody (…thanks bell hooks). “The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.” I carry this message …

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CLEAR Week: Nidhi Khattri on Building systems of evaluations, not one evaluation at a time

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 22, 2015 May 21, 2015

I’m Nidhi Khattri from the CLEAR Global Hub at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. As a member of the team that got CLEAR up and running, I’ve been interested in how countries make evidence-based decisions, and the role that evaluation plays in that process. Coming from a research-based background where I was more concerned …

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CLEAR Week: Lycia Lima on Improving Impact Evaluation Planning

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 21, 2015 May 17, 2015

I am Lycia Lima, the executive coordinator of the newest CLEAR center- for Brazil and Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Africa. We’re formally joining CLEAR later this year and are planning our inauguration in October 2015. I was also one of the organizers involved in the formation of the Brazilian M&E Network – Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e …

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CLEAR Week: Urmy Shukla on Next steps in M&E capacity building: What happens after the training is over?

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 20, 2015 May 17, 2015

I’m Urmy Shukla, Capacity Building Manager at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, hosted by J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. Since our 2011 start with CLEAR we’ve developed a wide-range of activities aimed at improving monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity throughout the region, including 90 trainings for partners such …

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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña Advancing Evaluation of Climate Change in Latin America by Bringing Together Diverse Stakeholders

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 19, 2015 May 17, 2015

We are Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. We’re sharing our work in advancing knowledge in evaluating climate change and how we’re addressing it through the upcoming International …

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CLEAR Week: Neha Sharma on What can behavioral science tell us about learning through evaluations?

3 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education / May 18, 2015 May 17, 2015

I’m Neha Sharma from the CLEAR Global Hub at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. A key Hub role involves facilitating learning and sharing knowledge about evaluation capacity development. So I often think about how people learn. In this context, I’ve been reading a lot of behavioral science literature, and reflecting on what makes people learn …

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CLEAR Week: Zhao Min and Ningquin Wu on Experience of Establishing a Performance-based Budgeting System: The Case of Shanghai

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 17, 2015 May 17, 2015

We are Zhao Min, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) in Shanghai, China, and Ningquin Wu, Coordinator at AFDI. AFDI is a member of the CLEAR Initiative (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results) and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. CLEAR promotes evaluation capacity building in regional centers across the …

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NA TIG Week: Ryan Watkins Words Matter: As is the case with needs

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 15, 2015 May 10, 2015

I am Ryan Watkins from George Washington University. Needs have been described and defined in many different ways of the years (see the December issue of New Directions in Evaluation for elaboration). One consequence of this often perplexing medley of definitions is that the word need has lost much of its meaning. Here I will …

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NA TIG Week: Lisle Hites Using GIS in Your Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Needs Assessment / May 14, 2015 May 10, 2015

I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG and Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Today’s posting is about the use of data visualization to enhance your needs assessment. Recently, my team worked with a state agency to help them identify potential sites for …

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