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Poster Reception #2

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

Session: Poster Reception #2

257 - Amplifying the voices of new Evaluation Capacity Builders: Lessons learned from transferring new skills and ideas into the workplace

Stream: Professional Development and Leadership

Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Abstract Information: Despite the consistent interest in evaluation capacity building (ECB) over the past several decades in evaluation scholarship and practice, few trainings on this topic exist. In 2023, we designed and delivered a two-day professional development workshop at the AEA 2023 conference to enhance evaluators’ knowledge and skills in ECB. In this panel, four workshop attendees will share lessons learned from their experiences implementing an ECB strategy they developed during the workshop session. Presenters represent the non-profit and public sectors, and engaged in ECB activities to ultimately affect change in a wide range of intended outcomes of ECB, including, but not necessarily limited to, mainstreaming/embedding evaluation in their organization, altering the frequency with which evaluations are performed, enhancing evaluative thinking, and shifting from doing evaluations to sharing insights from evaluations across the organization and effectively learning from them. Come hear directly from these new evaluation capacity builders about creating organizational environments that are supportive of high-quality evaluation practice.