Hi all! My name is Michael Curtis (he/him), and I’m speaking (kind of) to you from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at Northwestern University. During 2020’s LGBT TIG week, my colleagues at EDIT wrote a piece focused on how important it was for evaluators to engage with the concept of intersectionality actively …
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Hey everybody! This is Dylan Felt (she/her) – I’m a research and evaluation Project Manager and Assistant Director of the EDIT Program at Northwestern University. I’m here today to talk about sex, baby! More specifically, I want to talk about how sex is a social category which is weaponized against transgender people, and how you …
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Warm greetings, evaluators! We are Nimisha Poudyal and Becky Findley. We are internal evaluators at Unbound, a humanitarian organization working in 19 countries through a cash transfer program with a sponsorship funding model. Traditional program implementation and funding structures in the nonprofit and development sector utilize evaluation to demonstrate effectiveness to management and donors. A …
Hi, I am Liudmila Mikhailova, an evaluation practitioner with 28 years of experience designing, managing, and evaluating U.S. government foreign assistance/diplomacy programs with fieldwork in 25 countries. I also teach two George Washington University’s International Education Program courses: International Program Evaluation and International Program Design. The last decade has witnessed a significant effort in the …
Welcome to sustainability! I’m Jindra Cekan/ova, 30+ years in global development, founder of Valuing Voices, Sustainable Solutions for Excellent Impact. There is a compelling need to prove international projects and programs are as sustainable and long-term as we promise. However, evaluators of foreign aid during project implementation have a very limited set of tools with …
ICCE TIG Week: Evaluating Sustainability: How Do We Measure Up? by Jindra Cekan/ova Read More »
Hi, I’m Lisa Frantzen, Senior Consultant, Evaluation and Learning at TCC Group. I work with foundations, NGOs, and companies to strengthen their practices to use evaluation with a learning mindset. Over the last few years, I’ve worked with more and more clients that are asking questions about how they can shift power and leadership of …
ICCE TIG Week: Localization: How Do We Do This Well? by Lisa Frantzen Read More »
Hello! I’m Dawn Pauls, a program evaluator living in Saint Paul, MN. This blog post is adapted from my final paper in a recent course in International Development Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota. Designing innovative evaluation methods for determining to what extent the world’s most vulnerable children are assured of their human rights could help …
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Hi! We are Amy Gray, Senior Program Officer For Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Ned Meerdink, Senior Programs Officer, and Simar Singh, Senior Programs Manager at RefugePoint, an international organization advancing lasting solutions for at-risk refugees, and supporting the humanitarian community to do the same. According to UNHCR’s 2022 Global Appeal, the number of forcibly …
Hi, we are Lisa Frantzen, Amy Jersild, and Scott Chaplowe, and we are members of AEA’s International Working Group (IWG). The IWG advises AEA’s Executive Director on international issues and policies that affect international members and conference participants. The IWG is comprised of evaluators who work and live in various parts of the globe, are involved …
I’m Ryan Watkins, Professor at George Washington University. Today’s article is a re-post, with updated links, of a 2012 AEA365 post. Lessons Learned: Get familiar with needs assessment literature. Even if you only occasionally conduct needs assessments, it is important to be aware of the research literature that supports your theories, processes, and tools. I’ve …
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