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AEA356 DRG Blog Posts

AEA365 is AEA’s sponsored blogsite. Every year, the AEA DRG TIG solicits blog submissions from our community to be featured in celebration of the International Day of Democracy (September 15th). 

In 2025, the DRG TIG curated the following blogs.

• 9/20 - DRG TIG Week: Communities at the Centre of Service Delivery: Social Audits Empowering Citizens for Better Governance in Kenya by Awuor Ponge
• 9/19 - DRG TIG Week: West Meets East in INCE Dialogue Between AfrEA’s AGDEN and ReLAC by Celeste Ghiano and Florence Etta
• 9/18 - DRG TIG Week: Bang the Drum! For Monitoring and Evaluation in Africa by Mark Abrahams
• 9/17 - DRG TIG Week: The Evidence Enabling System for Government through Evaluation: Lessons from the AfrEA@25 Anniversary Celebrations 2025 by Awuor Ponge
• 9/16 - DRG TIG Week: Stimulating Citizen Reliance on Justice Mechanisms as an imperative to Achieving Global Access to Justice by Jerim Obure
• 9/15 - DRG TIG Week: Using Data and Evaluation to Support Civil Society Resilience after Funding Loss by Courtney Geary and Jessie Tannenbaum
• 9/14 - DRG TIG Week: Emergent Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Global & Domestic U.S. DRG Communities of Practices by Denise L. Baer

In 2024, the DRG TIG curated the following blogs.

• 9/21 - DRG TIG Week: Using Ripple Effects Mapping and Most Significant Change to capture nuanced results and contributing factors in DG Programs by Karen Chen, Dylan Diggs, and Pragati Godbole
• 9/20 - DRG TIG Week: Evaluation-informed Adaptation: Navigating Tradeoffs by Bret Barrowman
• 9/19 - DRG TIG Week: The evolving landscape of global governance: Use of evaluation in addressing inequities and power imbalances by Amy Jersild and Michael Harnar
• 9/18 - DRG TIG Week: Improving Governance and Service Delivery: Empowering Sub-National Governments for Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness in Nigeria by Awuor Ponge and Irene Karimi
• 9/17 - DRG TIG Week: Promoting Social Inclusion and Gender Equity in DRG Programming through Monitoring and Evaluation by Yana Yoparieva, Marian Ware, Ramsey Rodriguez, Marcia Mundt, and Alyson Kozma
• 9/16 - DRG TIG Week: Designing and Evaluating Rapid Responses to Democratic Erosion by Linda Stern
• 9/15 - DRG TIG Week: Principles that Make Evaluations Democratic by Jeanette Asencio Tocol

In 2023, the DRG TIG curated the following blogs.

• 9/16 - DRG TIG Week: Will Our DRG Capacity Building Efforts Lead to Policy Changes? by Jeanette (Jay) Tocol
• 9/15 - DRG TIG Week: Made in Africa Evaluation: Applying Tanzanian Indigenous Knowledge Systems by Francis Mwaijande
• 9/14 - DRG TIG Week: Development of the African Evaluation Principles (AEP) as a Consultative, Inclusive Process by Rosetti Nabbumba Nayenga
• 9/13 - DRG TIG Week: Learning How to Evaluate Meaningful Outcomes in Collaborative Human Rights Digital Security Programs by Deanna Kolberg-Shah, Leah Squires, and Megan Guidrey
• 9/12 - DRG TIG Week: From Evidence Review to Practicing with Tools: Insights on Evidence-Informed Dialogues from USIP’s Learning Agenda by David Connolly and Jill Baggerman
• 9/11 - DRG TIG Week: Using a Learning Agenda to Test a Theory of Change by Marcia Mundt, Linda Stern, Natalie Trisilla, and Rakesh Sharma
• 9/10 - DRG TIG Week: Democracy, Rights & Governance (DRG) Approaches to Learning Agendas by Laura Adams

In 2022, the DRG TIG curated the following blogs and served as the Guest Editor of AEA365. 

• 09/10 - DRG TIG Week: Creative Visualization of Qualitative Outcome Harvesting Data by Lauren Serpe​
• 09/09 - DRG TIG Week: DRG Evidence and MEL Insights into Academic and Practitioner Efforts to Improve Solutions for Women and Girls by Tanyel Taysi and Salome Tsereteli-Stephens​
• 09/08 - DRG TIG Week: Thinking and Working Politically in the Evidence Movement: Lessons from the DRG Sector by Denise Baer​
• 09/07 - DRG TIG Week: Are We Learning? Shifting Paradigms in Evaluating Democracy, Rights and Governance Interventions by Jerim Obure​
• 09/06 - DRG TIG Week: Strengthening Citizen-Centered Governance through Opinion Polls: Takeaways for Evaluation and Program Design by Prakhar Sharma and Keith Proctor​
• 09/05 - DRG TIG Week: Process Tracing and Wicked Problems by Laura Adams and Sarya Sok​
• 09/04 - DRG TIG Week: Nimbly Adapting Democracy, Rights and Governance Programs during Global Democratic Decline by Lauren Serpe

Stay tuned for our solicitation this year! Please contact our Communication Chair or Co-Chair for more details.

See historical posts at https://aea365.org/blog/archive/.

Check Out the AEA DRG TIG Issues in New Directions in Evaluation

Winter 2022

This special issue edited by DRG TIG members and former Board members Alysson Akiko Oakley and Kate Krueger discusses the history and methods used to evaluate and assess complexity and change in democracy support.  Contributions from Ophelia Delali A. Akoto, Amelia Ayoob, Sîm-Yassah Awilêlo Badjo, Emily Bango, Kate Byom, Giovanni Dazzo, Georges Fauriol, Megan Guidrey, Mason Ingram, David Jacobstein, Roland Kovats, Kate Krueger, Rodrigo Santos Legaspi, Donna Mertens, Alysson Akiko Oakley, Claudia Olavarria, Olena Rybiy, Lauren Serpe, Sarah Swift, Rebekah Usatin,  Alejandra Garcia Diaz Villamil, &  Molly Wright

Upcoming

The AEA DRG TIG is currently working on a new issue proposal, "Evaluator Identity and Resilience in a Time of Retrenchment." Contact our Chair for more information.