Digital and social media strategies (D/SM) are increasingly being used by organizations in the social sector as a way to advance advocacy and policy change goals. As a field, we continue to explore how to measure the impact of D/SM strategies on longer-term goals such as shifts in the public...
AEA2014_Evaluating Digital and Social Media Strategies to Advance Policy and Systems Change_Public.pdf
POSTER: The Advocacy for Better Health Project is a five-year initiative (June 2014–May 2019) funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with an estimated budget of US$20 million. The project’s goal is to improve the quality, accessibility, and availability of health and...
Designing evaluation indicators to assess the impact of policy.pdf
Projects implement physical activity and healthy eating components, including a policy/advocacy component. This paper discusses the application of PolicyLift, a comprehensive, evidence-based tool designed to assess the strength and comprehensiveness of obesity prevention policy language
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In this think tank session, we will lay a framework for discussion based on evaluations of several foundation initiatives focusing on infrastructure building, community organizing, and policy advocacy. These initiatives include the work of The California Endowment, Ford Foundation, 21st Century Foundation, and NoVo Foundation
Masters Movement Building AEA 2011.pptx
Abstract: Evaluators are increasingly being asked to examine complex and dynamic social and environmental change initiatives that call for equally dynamic approaches to evaluation. Developmental evaluation offers new ways to think about and approach evaluation to support and accommodate emergent...
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Because funders are increasingly interested in how their efforts impact specific policy actions or influence the policy panorama in general, they are turning to evaluators to conduct policy evaluation projects. While well-established methods are available to inform this work, evaluators often...
AEA 2013 - Engaging the Right People at the Right Time.pdf
Oxfam's Aid Effectiveness Initiative is developing with positivie results a MEL system which tracks how concepts of country ownership of US foreign aid are entering the discourse of USG policy makers and influentials in the international development community; and how their positions shift over...
Ortez_AEA_2010_MEL_System_for_Policy_Reform_on_Ownership_of_US_Aid[1].ppt
Have you been hoping to add media tracking to your evaluation toolkit? Have you wondered how it can fit into policy and advocacy evaluation? This demonstration session will showcase how media tracking was used in a developmental policy evaluation that examines the placement of early childhood...
AEA 2014 - Media Tracking_FINAL.pdf
John Mayne's introduction of contribution analysis (CA) has attracted widespread attention within the global evaluation community. Yet, despite this vivid attention, as Mayne himself notes (2011), there haven't been a lot of published studies that involve the systematic application of...
Making Contribution Analysis Work.pdf
These are short briefs on the Annie E. Casey Foundation Making Connections initiative in San Antonio, Denver, and Providence. #community #Evaluation2009 #2009Conference #Cluster,Multi-SiteandMulti-LevelEval #Change #comprehensive #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation
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