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GEDI Week: D. Pearl Barnett on Cultural Responsiveness in a Representative Bureaucracy

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 30, 2013

Greetings, I am D. Pearl Barnett, MPA, graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, and recent graduate of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program.  During my work at the Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City, we completed an evaluation of the agency’s Strategic Plan. Here, I present a few salient lessons about cultural responsiveness …

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GEDI Week: Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle on the GEDI Program

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 30, 2013

Hi, we are Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle, and we are the leaders and coordinators of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship program (GEDI).  November 24-29 is the GEDI sponsored week, and we thought it best to share some important resources about the GEDI program itself (www.eval.org/GEDI). Hot Tip: Program Overview. …

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Dan McDonnell on Twitter Etiquette and Data Archiving

6 Comments / Uncategorized / December 2, 2013

My name is Dan McDonnell, and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association.

If you couldn’t already tell, I am a huge fan of Twitter, both personally and professionally. Whether I’m analyzing the latest set of #eval tweets, seeking new craft beer releases, or making connections with new people who share my similar interests, I am logged into Twitter 365 days a year. I am constantly learning new, interesting ways to get great data out of Twitter, and to better engage with my fellow Tweeters. In this post, I’ll outline five short tips you can add to your bag of Twitter tricks, and help you on your road towards becoming a Twitter Power User.

ICT4D for MEAL Week: Suzanne Andrews and Shaun Ferris on Farmbook

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Greetings from Catholic Relief Services (CRS)! We, Suzanne Andrews and Shaun Ferris, from the Baltimore-based Agriculture and Livelihoods Program, presented at the American Evaluation Association’s Annual Conference in Washington DC on a Farmbook suite of on/off line tools to help us to better build capacity, gather data and develop business plans with smallholder farmers. Lesson …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Marianna Hensley on Beware the Lure of Real-time Data!

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Hi, my name is Marianna Hensley, Program Quality Manger for Health with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in India. I currently support the Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) project that CRS implements in partnership with Dimagi, Inc. and Vatsalya. The ReMiND project works with government community health workers (CHW) to improve the frequency and quality …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Shenkut Ayele on Early Warning and Response System Innovation through SMS in Ethiopia

2 Comments / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Hi, my name is Shenkut Ayele, Early Warning Assessment and Response Manager with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for the Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) in Ethiopia. JEOP is a USAID-funded emergency food assistance program that over two years is providing food aid to almost 1 million people. The program operates across Ethiopia and is a partnership …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Or Dashevsky on Sierra Leone Malaria Indicator Survey

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 19, 2013

Hi, my name is Or Dashevsky, Chief Solution Architect for Catholic Relief Services based in Baltimore. I’m responsible for providing technical leadership to a team who develop CRS’ enterprise architecture. Malaria is endemic in Sierra Leone, with stable and perennial transmission in all parts of the country. As such, the entire population is at risk …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Mike Matarasso on Some Lessons Learned While Building and Rolling Out a Global M&E/ICT Platform

4 Comments / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Hi! My name is Mike Matarasso and I’m responsible for leading the design, testing and global roll out of a Monitoring and Evaluation / Information Communication Technology (M&E/ICT) platform for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The platform will help us gather timely and high quality data to track performance across the agency, to inform change at …

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ICT4D for MEAL week: Guy Sharrock on Transforming the Way we Work

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Hi, my name is Guy Sharrock. I work in a small team of advisors working for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) responsible for improving the quality of the agency’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) activities. CRS is working to improve the lives of individuals in over 90 countries. CRS views the rapid expansion of cellular …

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Sheila B Robinson on Checking out Literature in AEA’s Public eLibrary

1 Comment / Uncategorized / November 17, 2013

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Today, I want to remind you about a fabulous resource for evaluation-related content – the AEA Public eLibrary. I’ve always been impressed with this organization’s generous offering of evaluation resources to members and non-members alike, and the Public eLibrary is one of my …

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