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APC Week: Colleen Duggan and Kenneth Bush on Evaluation in Settings Affected by Violent Conflict: What Difference Does Context Make?

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 8, 2013

We are Colleen Duggan, Senior Evaluation Specialist, International Development Research Centre (Canada) and Kenneth Bush, Director of Research, International Conflict Research (Northern Ireland).  For the past three years, we have been collaborating on a joint exploratory research project called Evaluation in Extremis:  The Politics and Impact of Research in Violently Divided Societies, bringing together researchers, …

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APC Week: Claire Hutchings and Kimberly Bowman on Advocacy Impact Evaluation

2 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 7, 2013

Hello – we’re Claire Hutchings and Kimberly Bowman, working with Oxfam Great Britain (GB) on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Advocacy and Campaigns. We’re writing today to share with you Oxfam GB’s efforts to adopt a rigorous approach to advocacy impact evaluation and to ask you to help us strengthen our approach. Rad Resources Resources: …

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APC Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Joint Evaluation Strategies for Advocacy and Services

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 6, 2013

My name is Rhonda Schlangen, and I’m an independent evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and campaign evaluation. Non-governmental service delivery organizations use advocacy as a lever for greater impact.  They often have a tough time finding useful internal evaluation systems to assess their combined service delivery and advocacy work.  Many service providers try to fall …

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APC Week: Edmina Bradshaw on Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts of Non-Profits – After the Fact….

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 5, 2013

My name is Dr. Edmina Bradshaw, Principal Consultant of Edmina Bradshaw LLC.  I work with a small group of professionals on program planning and evaluation for national and local nonprofit organizations, mostly in the aging field.  I also support organizations in implementing self-directed volunteer teams(sdvnetwork.com) across the country. I find that while the need for …

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APC Week: Carlisle Levine on Useful Tools for Assessing Advocacy Progress

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 4, 2013

Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in organizational and advocacy evaluation. I have led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. As an internal and independent evaluator, I have learned important lessons about advocacy evaluation. Lessons Learned: Influencing policy change is a lengthy, convoluted process involving many actors, actions …

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APC Week: David Devlin-Foltz on Advocacy and Policy Change Week

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 3, 2013

Welcome to Advocacy and Policy Change TIG week on AEA365!  I’m David Devlin-Foltz and I co-chair our TIG when I’m not directing the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at The Aspen Institute or, well, doing other things.  My team and I work principally with foundations and nonprofits to assess efforts to advocate for policy change …

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Susan Kistler on the Top 10 aea365 Articles of 2012

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 2, 2013

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. Last year, about this time we looked back on the top aea365 posts of 2011, a year where the most read list reflected a number of tech tools. I ended the list with “I can’t wait to see what 2012 brings!” …

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Ann Emery, James Coyle, and Kylie Hutchinson, on Top Things You DID Learn in School

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 11, 2013

Greetings! We’re Ann Emery, James Coyle, and Kylie Hutchinson. Every few weeks, James and Kylie chat about topics, trends, and tips in the field of program evaluation through the Adventures in Evaluation podcast series. James and Kylie recently invited Ann to join their discussion. We talked about Ann’s aea365 post on 10 Things You Didn’t …

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Linda Scheu and Angela Baldasare on Using Good Presentation Principles to Increase Potential Impact

3 Comments / Uncategorized / January 31, 2013

Good Day! We are Linda Scheu and Angela Baldasare, evaluation and assessment professionals working in higher education, at the University of Arizona. One of the things we have learned in our combined 20 years of experience in evaluation/assessment work is in the evaluation process planning, collecting, and analyzing the data are almost equally paramount. However, …

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Bonnie Stabile on Publishing Beyond the Evaluation Community

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / January 30, 2013

Hi – I’m Bonnie Stabile and I am Deputy Editor of the World Medical & Health Policy Journal. As an editor, I’d like to encourage evaluation practitioners and scholars to reach out beyond the evaluation community to share their findings and insights. Particularly in the areas of Health and Health Policy, I believe evaluators have much to …

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