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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: 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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ACA Week: Rob Horowitz on Resolving Dissonance in the Improvisatory Rhythm of School Collaborations

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / October 25, 2013

Hi, I’m Rob Horowitz. I do research, evaluation and consulting, primarily in arts education. Maybe it’s because I’m a musician, but I often think of dissonance and consonance in my work. You can hear the beats of dissonance, if you carefully listen to the overtones of any group of tones. Dissonance in music provides tension …

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Samuel Otoo on an Integrated Approach to Results Management in a Knowledge Organization

Leave a Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 9, 2013

Hello, I am Samuel Otoo, manager of the Capacity Development and Results unit at the World Bank Institute (WBI). Since 2009, our team has been developing a body of knowledge around the results of capacity development initiatives. This work is built around the Capacity Development Results Framework (CDRF), and focuses on capacity development as a …

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Susan Lowes on Pile Sorts

1 Comment / Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / October 6, 2013

Hello colleagues. My name is Susan Lowes and I am currently Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. One of my challenges is to make the evaluation process interesting to those being evaluated so I am always searching for assessments that go beyond surveys and interviews. …

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MNEA Week: Danielle Hegseth on A New Kind of Education at the AEA Conference

1 Comment / Uncategorized / October 4, 2013

Hi my name is Danielle Hegseth from the Improve Group. In the fall of 2012 I was fresh out of grad school and still green in my role as a research analyst. During my short time in the field I had quickly gained experience with the ups and downs of meeting the needs of clients …

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BLP TIG Week: Nichole Stewart and Laura Pryor On Connecting Performance Management to Program Evaluation

1 Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 4, 2013

We are Nichole Stewart and Laura Pryor and we’d like to share a preview of our presentation at the upcoming AEA 2013 conference. Our session, Performance Management to Program Evaluation: Creating a Complimentary Connection, will use a case study of a Los Angeles-based juvenile offender reentry program to demonstrate how “information and knowledge production” can …

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CP TIG Week: Nidal Karim on Innovating for Gender Transformative M&E

1 Comment / Community Psychology / August 29, 2013

Greetings! I am Nidal Karim, Gender and Empowerment Impact Measurement Sr. Advisor at CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. The promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment defines CARE’s programs worldwide. This means, on a daily basis, I have to think about how to pursue meaning and justice in monitoring & evaluation (M&E) …

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Donna Fujimoto-Saka on Evaluation Capacity Building: Top Five Lessons Learned From Technical Assistance Efforts

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 16, 2013

My name is Donna Fujimoto-Saka, an evaluation specialist with the System Planning and Improvement Section (SPIS) within the Hawaii State Department of Education since 2007. In 2011, the internal evaluators were asked to support the evaluation needs of the Hawaii’s Race to the Top (RTTT) grant.  This post summarizes some of the lessons that I …

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