Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor and I’m thrilled because one of my present commitments is working again with UNFPA, with the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (fascinating region), facilitating their first Developmental Evaluation (and mine!), and I am fascinated by how this approach I’ve heard and …
Hi there, we are Kimberly Leonard and Kimberlee Salmond. We are pleased to kick off a week of AEA365 posts from Oregon evaluators. We are both Senior Research Officers at Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). The OCF research team plays a variety of roles to support research, evaluation and learning at the foundation, including evaluating our …
My name is Lauren Bloem, Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation for AchieveMpls. We provide comprehensive services for Minneapolis youth focused on career and college readiness, in partnership with the Minneapolis Public School District and the City of Minneapolis. Framing internal evaluation as a learning opportunity and not only an accountability task can be a challenge. …
IE TIG Week: The case for Developmental Evaluation Frameworks by Lauren Bloem Read More »
Hi, I’m Patricia Moore Shaffer, Deputy Director, Research & Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts and Board Member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society. The National Endowment for the Arts is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their …
EERS Week: Evaluating in the Midst of Complexity by Patricia Moore Shaffer Read More »
Hi, I’m Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy support and conduct evaluations with social justice funders, NGOs, networks and leadership training institutions in South Africa and internationally. This blog is about the value of establishing an Evaluation Advisory Group when your task requires more skills that you have! I’m currently the ‘learning and assessment partner’ of …
Hi, I’m Chad Green, program analyst at Loudoun County Public Schools in northern Virginia. Over the past year I’ve been seeking developmental evaluation (DE) practitioners in school districts throughout the U.S. and abroad. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Keiko Kuji-Shikatani (C.E.) who is an educator and internal evaluator with the Ontario Ministry of …
Hi there fellow evaluators. We’re Peter Rudiak-Gould and Rochelle Zorzi, evaluation consultants (and obsessive seekers of better ways to do things) at Cathexis Consulting in Toronto, Canada. We’d like to share a simple trick that makes Developmental Evaluation much easier and more productive. Developmental Evaluation sounds easy. Traditional evaluation is an exhaustively rehearsed dance routine, …
Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative. I fell in love with the approach when I first practiced it in 2012 as a mother first, and then as an evaluator. In “Principles-Focused Evaluation: The Guide”, I share what it was like to make sense of life after my four-year-old son died. Reflecting on my parenting, …
Hello! I’m Dani de García, Director of Performance Evaluation, Innovation, and Learning for Social Impact, an international development management consulting firm. We’re working to innovate within the international evaluation space, especially with evaluation approaches. One of our contracts pilots Developmental Evaluation (DE) at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). We’re trying to see if, …
ICCE TIG Week: Challenges to Adopting Innovation in MERL by Dani de Garcia Read More »
Hi there, I’m Erin Bock, Director of Research and Evaluation for The Sherwood Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska. I am writing to honor Nora Murphy as a leader in “Next Generation” evaluation. Why I chose to honor this evaluator: I met Nora while an evaluation newbie. I was struck by her “special sauce” of authenticity, passionate …
Labor Day Week: Erin Bock on Honoring Nora Murphy Read More »
