I’m Ryan Watkins and I am a professor at George Washington University Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment website www.needsassessment.org – which collects many needs assessment resources for you.
Hi, I’m Kim Norris, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for American Institutes for Research (AIR)’s International Development Division. Part of my role is to lead a MEL practice. As part of our initial strategy, our practice team determined to focus on localizing our work. For us this means we seek out ways to increase local partnering and leadership in and around MEL efforts – from business development to MEL direction and execution. This involves local team leadership, capacity strengthening and engagement on local terms.
Greetings! I’m Paula Richardson from Salanga, an organization dedicated to reimagining monitoring and evaluation practices for community ownership, gender equality, and transformative change. Through our work with 50+ communities worldwide, we have gained insights and identified key takeaways from implementing a Community-Led monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning approach (CoLMEAL).
We are Nicky Bowman, Ayesha Boyce, and Gregory Phillips II, the new co-editors for the Ethics, Values & Culture Section of AJE. We have lived experiences in an ever-changing and intersectional world that few academic publications address as a normal part of scholarship, governance, professionalization, and publication agreements. We bring our praxis and scholarship, which …
Happy New Year! We are Alysson Akiko Oakley, PhD (Vice President, Pact) and Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa, PhD (Associate Professor and Research Director, Wits School of Governance). We serve as the new co-editors of the International Developments in Evaluation section of the American Journal of Evaluation. We are evaluation educators and practitioners and are delighted to join the AJE team. We share a love of learning, of supporting research in evaluation, and of advancing diverse experiences and perspectives. We come to our role as editors with a desire to increase the dissemination of these experiences and perspectives, with the hope of improving the practice of evaluation.
To close out this week of AEA365 dedicated to the American Journal of Evaluation, we are introducing the journal’s Associate Editors! We are Stephanie A. Dopson, Melissa Rae Goodnight, Leanne Kallemeyn, John LaVelle, and Dana Linnell. Here we are going to each share our vision for the journal. Stephanie: I am thrilled to be part …
Hi Everyone, this is Tarek Azzam (director of the Center for Evaluation and Assessment at the University of California, Santa Barbara) and Ralph Renger (Just Evaluation Services, LLC, Vail, AZ). We are the co-editors of the Method Note Section of AJE, and we’d love to share our thoughts on the vision for this section. The …
Hello! My name is Carl Westine and I am an associate professor of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I’m also the new Section Editor for Experimental Methodology with the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). Today I want to call your attention to some scope refreshing regarding this section …
Hi, my name is Soledad Muniz. I am the Director of Programmes at InsightShare, a
not-for-profit based in the UK championing the use of Participatory Video combined
with the Most Significant Change technique (PV MSC) for participatory monitoring and
evaluation. In 23 years, we have worked in over 70 countries on more than 500 projects worldwide.
Greetings! We are Joyce Mukoma, a Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant with the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), and Scott Chaplowe, an evaluation and strategy specialist, AEA International Working Group member, Board member of the International Evaluation Academy, and longtime member of EvalSDGs. In this post, we draw upon our EvalSDGs Insights publication, …
