Event Date: 2024-07-26 TEI Deadline: 2024-07-23
Utilization-Focused Evaluation begins with the premise that evaluations should be judged by their utility and actual use; therefore, evaluators should facilitate the evaluation process and design any evaluation with careful consideration of how everything that is done, from beginning to end, will affect use. Use concerns how real people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experience the evaluation process. Therefore, the focus in utilization-focused evaluation is on the intended use by intended users.
Event Date: 2024-08-06 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2024-08-05
This course provides participants with the DAIS approach, a highly participatory, rigorous approach to integrating data, which evaluation teams can use to get from data collection and analysis to a coherent narrative arc and a roadmap for completing the evaluation product. Using this approach, the evaluation team can feel confident that their findings, conclusions, and recommendations represent the story the data tells.
Event Date: 2024-08-20 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2024-08-19
Are you an evaluator, researcher, or social scientist who is looking to learn more about the basics of quantitative methods? These methods are commonly used when quantitative data and information can be incorporated to answer various questions about a program’s impact and fidelity of implementation. In this introductory course, we will explore various quantitative methods including quasi-experimental and experimental designs, introduce some of the analytic techniques used in these designs, highlight issues related to the use of measurement (such as surveys) and databases, and present multiple examples of how this knowledge can be used in the real-world.
Event Date: 2024-09-03 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2024-09-02
Using a gender-transformative lens, this practical course follows a comprehensive approach to integrating gender into project design and evaluation, and into solicitations. Participants will conduct a “deep dive” into gender-transformative program design and evaluation in a range of issues, including women’s economic empowerment, education, political participation, combatting gender-based violence, and addressing intersectionality in gender issues. By the end of this course, participants will be able to articulate the case for gender integration, conduct gender analysis, and integrate gender into development programs and evaluations in ways that promote healthy gender norms, structures, and behaviors.
Event Date: 2024-09-16 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2024-09-15
Are you new to the field of evaluation? Are you wondering what it’s all about? Will you be commissioning an evaluation? This course will demystify the evaluation journey and explore the choices, roles and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Join us for a two module course designed to help explore the world of evaluation practice. Case studies, exercises and small group conversations will help participants learn how to clarify interventions, identify beneficiaries, gather data, discuss results, and develop recommendations, all the while fostering a reflective, ethical and culturally sensitive evaluation practice.