Gov Eval TIG Week: Welcome to Government Eval TIG Week by Steven Lize, Paul Lagunes, and Kelly Zimmerman

Date: Sunday, December 22, 2024

Hello everyone! We are Steven Lize, Paul Lagunes, and Kelly Zimmerman and we’re excited to kick off Government Eval TIG Week, featuring blog contributions from our members working for federal government agencies and organizations consulting in the public sphere. This week’s posts showcase diverse experiences and approaches to evaluating publicly funded programs, aligning with the Evaluation 2024 conference theme, “Amplifying and Empowering Voices in Evaluation.”

Our contributors, including early career evaluators, share fresh insights into creative approaches to centering stakeholders and evaluation participants. Their stories highlight noteworthy learning tools for our evaluation community.

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Dive into Our Blog Posts!

Dec. 23: “Puzzle Piece Approach to Showing Impact of ‘Essential Public Health Services'” by Sara Wolicki, Allison Gately and Angie Deokar
Dec. 24: “Data Management in the Age of the Evidence Act” by Stacey Merola and Fouad Pervez
Dec. 25: “Making Useful Logic Models by Incorporating the Evaluation Standards” by Bilquis Khan, Omoshalewa Bamkole and Erin Black
Dec. 26: “Recommendations Without Co-Creation Is a Wreck Waiting to Happen!” by Cara McFadden and Lindsay Scanlon
Dec. 27: “Financial Empowerment Initiatives Within the Fabric of Local Government” by Ulrike Nischan
Dec. 28: “Small but Mighty: Creatively Navigating Evaluation Constraints to Build Trust and Amplify Authentic Voices” by Amanda West, Caitlin McColloch, Sabrina Nabinger, Evangelia Theodorou, Gary Brunette and Robert Kirkcaldy
Dec. 29: “Leveraging Complexity-Aware Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (CAMEL) in Conflict Zones” by Kyle Beaulieu

Rad Resources

Explore these new resources:

Measuring Federal Evaluation Capacity: 2024 Survey of Federal Evaluation Officials, Data Foundation: A study assessing the growth of evaluation capacity and practice in federal agencies, reporting on five years of implementing the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.
Upward Mobility Data Dashboard, Urban Institute: A dashboard providing Mobility Metrics data for 24 predictors strongly associated with upward socio-economic mobility.

The American Evaluation Association is hosting Gov Eval TIG Week with our colleagues in the Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group. The contributions all this week to AEA365 come from our Gov Eval TIG members. Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or content to extend this AEA365 contribution? Please add them in the comments section for this post on the AEA365 webpage so that we may enrich our community of practice. Would you like to submit an AEA365 Tip? Please send a note of interest to AEA365@eval.org. AEA365 is sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and provides a Tip-a-Day by and for evaluators. The views and opinions expressed on the AEA365 blog are solely those of the original authors and other contributors. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of the American Evaluation Association, and/or any/all contributors to this site.