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Riding the Tiger: Advice for Novice Evaluation Managers in the Field
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| Alice Willard,
Independent Consultant,
willardbaker@verizon.net
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There are many guides, courses, and events for people to learn about monitoring and evaluation (M&E), in terms of technical skills and business practices. What is less common is the ‘how to’ for a staff member in an organization to manage the evaluators conducting an evaluation. This presentation, captures the key elements of a module developed expressly to fill this gap, derived from a module produced by two private voluntary organizations (PVOs). While both employ full-time M&E staff who provide basic M&E training to agency staff, many field staff have never managed consultants, nor have they participated in evaluations. This ‘field-friendly’ module explores four major ‘black holes’ for the novice or infrequent evaluation manager: 1) Evaluation issues (rigor, bias, validity, communication, utilization, etc.), 2) Management tasks (personnel, finance, logistics, etc.), 3) Coping mechanisms for the unexpected (politics, weather, global economy, health, etc.), and 4) Basic management skills (organization, etc.).
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Use of Detective Stories in Teaching Evaluation in International Settings
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| Alexey Kuzmin,
Process Consulting Company,
alexey@processconsulting.ru
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Training content must be presented in a lively and interesting manner in whatever context. One of the particular challenges in teaching evaluation internationally is related to developing training methods that are relevant in diverse settings and effective for trainees from different educational and cultural backgrounds.
Finding training methodologies that meet all of these requirements is especially difficult when introducing fundamental theoretical concepts and principles. An example of a potentially difficult concept is the evaluation data analysis chain: describing the findings (facts, evidence), interpreting the findings, drawing conclusions (judgments), and making recommendations.
This paper presents an approach that introduces data analysis principles using Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The approach has proven to be both relevant and effective in a dozen countries from Russia to Thailand.
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Implementation of a Institute of Evaluation in Ethiopia
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| Carla Decotelli,
Tulane University,
carladecotelli@gmail.com
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| Wuleta Lemma,
Tulane University,
lemmaw@gmail.com
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| Kifle Woldemichael,
Jimma University,
betty.kifle@yahoo.com
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| Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos,
FIOCRUZ,
bmoreira@ensp.fiocruz.br
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Building Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity that can influence the programs is a challenge. There are several constraints identified globally such as: non unified approach, inadequate support from governmental institutions, confusion about methods and long term committed. In Ethiopia, Jimma University (JU) and Ethiopia FMOH with the support of Tulane University and in partnership with ENSP/FIOCRUZ are changing this scenario. In order to respond to this need they implemented The Institute of Evaluation, that brings practitioners and theorists to provide unique M&E modules, innovative adult training methods and provide a platform for experience exchange in the area, creating a tradition, and a center of excellence in evaluation in JU.
Through the establishment of this institute a pool of M&E experts, with strong skills in HIV/AIDS program evaluation will be created to support the quality of academic research and training in M&E field.
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