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Oregon Evaluators Week: Evaluation in Rural and Frontier Settings: What Us Urbanites Should Keep in Mind by Corey Newhouse

I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit, a consultancy that helps mission driven organizations use data to make great decisions and improve the quality of their work. I’m also an avowed urbanite, more comfortable muscling my way through rush hour crowds than on an empty forest path. Since Oregon is a predominately rural …

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AKEN Week: kas aruskevich on Strengthening Itinerant Evaluations in Rural Alaska

Greetings! My name is kas aruskevich and I am principal of Evaluation Research Associates LLC. I live in Fairbanks and work primarily in rural Alaska. Alaska is known for its great natural beauty, extreme temperatures, and unique context of diverse and far-flung communities assessable only by air. Alaska is the largest state in the U.S. …

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Vanessa Jackson on Using Qualitative Methods for Small Business Development and Sustainability

Greetings from Kentucky, the land of national basketball championships.  My name is Vanessa Prier Jackson and I a professor of retailing in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the department of Merchandising Apparel and Textiles at the University of Kentucky. For the last three years I have become very interested in qualitative research in …

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Silvia Salinas-Mulder and Fabiola Amariles on Gender, Rights and Cultural Awareness in Development Evaluation

We are Silvia Salinas-Mulder, Bolivian anthropologist, feminist activist and independent consultant, and Fabiola Amariles, Colombian economist, founder and director of Learning for Impact. We have worked for several years as external evaluators for development programs in Latin America. The following ideas may help to operationalize the principles of gender- and human rights (HR)-responsive evaluation in …

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