I’ve attended the American Evaluation Association (AEA) annual conference for the past nine years. During this time, the conference schedule has increasingly featured presentations on collaborative and participatory measurement and learning (MLE) for nonprofit social change programs.
Continuing that trend, evaluators at AEA 2023 presented on MLE projects where they are serving as facilitators and coaches of data gathering and analysis by and for people who implement social change programs (rather than undertaking all data gathering and analysis themselves, either as “external” evaluators or as a designated in-house evaluation team).
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