Amy Jersild

Evaluation consultant and doctoral candidate
Western Michigan University, United States

Amy Jersild is an evaluation consultant working in international development, and a doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary evaluation studies at Western Michigan University. Her research interests include the globalization and professionalization of the evaluation field. Her international career includes 25 years in the development sector as an official with the UN’s International Organization for Migration, a senior program manager with international non-governmental organizations, and as faculty teaching evaluation courses in a MA degree program on sustainable development at School for International Training Graduate Institute in Washington, DC. As an independent evaluation consultant, she has worked with a wide range of donors and implementing agencies, including US Department of Labor, UN agencies, The Rockefeller Foundation, and FCDO designing evaluations, conducting evaluations, and advising on evaluation, as well as conducting syntheses and meta-evaluations. She previously worked on evaluability assessments with the Adaptation Fund in Washington DC, and is currently working on EAs with the Independent Advisory and Evaluation Services of CGIAR in Rome. She resided in the Global South for 20 years (Cambodia, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Thailand) and is currently based in the USA.

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Presentation(s):

• Findings from a systematic review of a half-century of transdisciplinary meta-evaluation practice: meta-evaluation and the general logic of evaluation

  Thursday, October 24, 2024
  4:00 PM - 4:15 PM PST

• 232 - CGIAR’s experience of using evaluability assessments as a means toward promoting evaluation readiness and inclusivity

  Thursday, October 24, 2024
  6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST