Evaluation Services
Design and Capacity Building in Monitoring and Evaluation:
I use a participatory approach that builds staff capacity while developing cost-effective and user-friendly systems for learning from experience and analyzing results.
Portfolio Evaluations for Foundations and Large Agency Programs:
These multi-site and multi-project evaluations use a systematic approach to analyze results across large and diverse grant portfolios. I have led multi-disciplinary and multi-regional teams to carry out these evaluations. I design evaluations that examine programming trends in the light of current evidence to inform future grant-making strategies.
Evaluability Assessments:
These assessments determine whether a program is ready to be evaluated, and which evaluation questions can be answered feasibly. The assessment analyzes the logic of the results framework (or Theory of Change) of the program, and examines the quality and scope of the data available and the level of progress in implementation. Mini-assessments are part of the design stage of program or portfolio evaluations, but an evaluability assessment can be a stand-alone exercise, and is particularly useful when a rigorous impact evaluation is being considered.
Evaluating Advocacy and Rights Promotion:
First as a grantmaker and then as a consultant, I have had extensive experience in advocacy evaluations, including issues faced by networks and coalitions, as well as evaluation of human rights and health promotion among women and adolescents. Evaluation of these programs demands qualitative methods to identify the program’s unique contribution to a complex and dynamic process of change, with many factors outside of the program’s control.
Program Case Studies:
I have carried out eight in-depth program case studies, six of which have been published either as book chapters or journal articles. I produced two additional case studies of child survival programs in Latin America for Plan International, and designed case studies of the Indian government's women's empowerment program -- Mahila Samakhya -- for the Best Practices Foundation. My case studies are multidisciplinary, taking into account political, economic, and cultural factors that affect health and rights promotion programs.
I use a participatory approach that builds staff capacity while developing cost-effective and user-friendly systems for learning from experience and analyzing results.
- Recent clients include Girls not Brides (U.K.), The Ford Foundation, the Boston Women’s Fund, The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), UNFPA, and Perkins International (the global program of Perkins School for the Blind).
Portfolio Evaluations for Foundations and Large Agency Programs:
These multi-site and multi-project evaluations use a systematic approach to analyze results across large and diverse grant portfolios. I have led multi-disciplinary and multi-regional teams to carry out these evaluations. I design evaluations that examine programming trends in the light of current evidence to inform future grant-making strategies.
- Recent clients include Wellspring Advisors’ Women’s Rights Program, UNFPA Global Programme, Best Practices Foundation (India), and the Ford Foundation.
Evaluability Assessments:
These assessments determine whether a program is ready to be evaluated, and which evaluation questions can be answered feasibly. The assessment analyzes the logic of the results framework (or Theory of Change) of the program, and examines the quality and scope of the data available and the level of progress in implementation. Mini-assessments are part of the design stage of program or portfolio evaluations, but an evaluability assessment can be a stand-alone exercise, and is particularly useful when a rigorous impact evaluation is being considered.
Evaluating Advocacy and Rights Promotion:
First as a grantmaker and then as a consultant, I have had extensive experience in advocacy evaluations, including issues faced by networks and coalitions, as well as evaluation of human rights and health promotion among women and adolescents. Evaluation of these programs demands qualitative methods to identify the program’s unique contribution to a complex and dynamic process of change, with many factors outside of the program’s control.
- In addition to the clients for portfolio evaluations, clients have included Boston Women's Fund, Ipas, International Women’s Health Coalition, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Mexico office), and the Abortion Access Project.
Program Case Studies:
I have carried out eight in-depth program case studies, six of which have been published either as book chapters or journal articles. I produced two additional case studies of child survival programs in Latin America for Plan International, and designed case studies of the Indian government's women's empowerment program -- Mahila Samakhya -- for the Best Practices Foundation. My case studies are multidisciplinary, taking into account political, economic, and cultural factors that affect health and rights promotion programs.