evaluation capacity building

Clara Hagens, Marianna Hensley and Guy Sharrock on Building MEAL Competencies

Greetings! We’re Clara Hagens, Marianna Hensley and Guy Sharrock, Advisors in the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Building on our previous blog dated October 20, Embracing an Organizational Approach to ECB, we’d like to describe the next step in our ongoing MEAL capacity building journey: the development of …

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Clara Hagens, Kelly Scott and Guy Sharrock on Embracing an Organizational Approach to ECB

Greetings! We’re Clara Hagens, Kelly Scott and Guy Sharrock, Advisors in the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Baltimore. We’d like to offer another perspective on Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB), namely, creating and institutionally embedding a suite of MEAL Policies and Procedures (MPP) that ensures a systematic and …

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OL-ECB Week: Natalie Cook and Tom Archibald on ICYMI*: Roundup of Recent Evaluation Capacity Building Research

(*ICYMI (“in case you missed it”) we present a few summaries of recent ECB literature to help you stay up-to-date on this quickly evolving aspect of evaluation. Hi, we are Natalie Cook (Graduate Research Assistant) and Tom Archibald (Assistant Professor) from the Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education department at Virginia Tech. We both practice and …

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OL-ECB Week: Tom Archibald on Rad Resources for the Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) Commons

I’m Tom Archibald, Assistant Professor in the Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education department at Virginia Tech and Chief of Party of the USAID/Education and Research in Agriculture project in Senegal. I’m also Program Co-Chair for the OL-ECB TIG; as Sally Bond mentioned here on aea365 yesterday, as a TIG we are excited to develop an …

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Scott Chaplowe on Rad Resources for M&E Training & Capacity Building

Hello AEA365ers! My name is Scott Chaplowe, and I have been working in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for over a decade, (currently with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC). My work involves not only doing M&E myself, but helping others to understand and support it. Whether with communities, project teams, …

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Sharon Wasco on Evaluation Capacity Building: Saving the Blue Marble One Garden At A Time

My name is Sharon Wasco and I am a community psychologist and an independent consultant. I work with mission-based organizations to generate practice-based evidence to sustain prevention innovation. To me, the most provocative session at this year’s annual conference in Chicago was Thursday’s plenary on Exemplary Evaluation in the International Year of the Evaluation. I …

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CASNET Week: Jean King, Frances Lawrenz, and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann on Taking Advantage of Insider/Outsider Perspectives in Evaluation Research

We’re Jean King and Frances Lawrenz (University of Minnesota) and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann (Museum of Science, Boston), members of a research team studying the use of concepts from complexity theory to understand evaluation capacity building (ECB) in networks. We purposefully designed the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) case study research …

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CASNET Week: Scott Pattison, Melanie Francisco, and Juli Goss on Enhancing ECB within a System

Greetings! This is Scott Pattison and Melanie Francisco from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and Juli Goss from the Museum of Science, Boston. We are part of the research team for the NSF-funded Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) project. Today we’re focusing on how project leaders and senior …

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CASNET Week: Sarah Cohn and Scott Pattison on Team-Based Inquiry

Sarah Cohn, Science Museum of Minnesota, and Scott Pattison, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, here, members of the CASNET research team. Together we led NISE Net’s evaluation capacity building (ECB) initiative, Team-Based Inquiry (TBI), “. . . a practical approach to empowering education professionals to get the data they need, when they need it, …

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CASNET Week: Jean King and Gayra Ostegaard Eliou on Applying Systems Thinking to Evaluation Capacity Building

This is Jean King and Gayra Ostegaard Eliou, from the University of Minnesota, members of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research team. NSF funded CASNET to provide insights on (1) the implications of complexity theory for designing evaluation systems that “promote widespread and systemic use of evaluation within a …

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