AEA365, the Tip-a-Day from the American Evaluation Association

Hi there! I’m Taylor B. Anderson, a Senior Consultant at Public Profit. At AEA 2025, I co-facilitated a pre-conference workshop with Annette L. Gardner, Rhonda Schlangen, and Kathleen Sullivan on foresight methods for evaluators. Earlier that year, Annette and Rhonda wrote...

Hi! I’m Scott Chaplowe. For Earth Day I am providing a sneak peek of our forthcoming article, “Rethinking Evaluation Competencies for the Transformational Imperative,” co-authored with Candice Morkel, Thania de la Garza, Sam Buckton, Silva Ferretti, Rajib Nandi, and Sonal Zaveri. It will appear in a special issue of the

Hi! We are Emery Webster and Taylor Anderson, evaluators at Public Profit. We are noticing a pattern: the most interesting impacts of environmental initiatives often go uncounted. When we focus only on the most countable outcomes, we can miss how change sp...

Hello, I am Joy Mukoma, a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning specialist working across a range of programs including peace, conflict, gender and conservation. When working in these different spaces, I spend a lot of time thinking about how complexity shapes how we understand change. As we celebrate Earth Day, I want to share what that means for how we lo...

My name is Chris Allan, Executive Director of Ajabu Advisors, a group of international strategy and evaluation consultants.

Many years ago, I was traveling around West Africa, looking for leaders of social and environmental movements to join an advisory board making...