There are numbers to which we assign significance, signposts in a lifetime of progress. Kindergarteners count the first 100 days of school, young adults celebrate the transition from 20 to 21, we look back and forward when turning 40 or 50 or 60. Today, we’re celebrating a major milestone in the life of this blog. …
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I am Alice Hausman, a professor of Public Health at Temple University. I have been working as a community based participatory research (CBPR) evaluator of youth violence prevention initiatives in urban environments for many years. Lesson Learned: Involve the Community in Identifying Measures and Data. As part of the participatory evaluation planning process, I always …
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Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. I will be posting several monthly articles to assist you with employment in the evaluation field. As a new-ish evaluator and part-time graduate student myself, I receive a lot of questions about networking. My advice is to take an evaluator to lunch every week. You’ll …
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Greetings from Music City! I am Kathryn Bowen, Vice President for Research & Evaluation at Centerstone Research Institute. I am involved with the planning, implementation, and reporting of multiple program evaluations. Universal professional values like honesty, integrity, accountability, tolerance, and respect for people influence all my work. My feminist values are aligned with fairness, social …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We’ve been writing a lot lately about AEA’s upcoming conference, Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to provide an update on our fourth quarter eStudy workshops – three foundational offerings for filling your evaluation toolbox, even if you can’t …
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Hi, I’m Katherine Hay. I’ve spent the last 15 years in India working on development, research, and evaluation. Lessons Learned: A mantra I use all the time is: ‘there is no gender neutral policy, program, or evaluation.’ If I hear one of these things described as ‘gender neutral’ I start to probe. Usually when an …
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My name is Elizabeth (AKA: Bessa) Whitmore. Now a retired Professor from the School of Social Work, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, I have been a member of the Feminist TIG since its inception. The following entry draws on a chapter I am writing entitled “Researcher/evaluator roles and social justice” in a forthcoming Handbook on Feminist …
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Greetings, I am Denise Seigart, Associate Dean for Nursing at Stvenson University. Like a great novel, a great feminist evaluation creates the conditions for learning and change, particularly for the benefit of women. In 2008-2009 I implemented a feminist evaluation to study school-based health care in the United States (U.S.), Canada, and Australia. In the …
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Hello! I am Alessandra Galiè, a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. From 2006 to 2011 I collaborated with a Participatory Plant Breeding programme coordinated at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to assess the impact of the programme on the empowerment of the newly involved women farmers …
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Hello, I am Donna Podems, founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa. We work with a wide range of international and local donors who fund a wide variety of technical interventions in areas such as environment, education, health, community development and human rights. …
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