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Change From The InsideMary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and current chair of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leaders Council for Reproductive...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Health
Teddy Bears, Dictators, and the Power of Ridicule Recently, the Swedish advertising agency Studio Total pulled a peculiar stunt: they flew a small plane into Belarus (Europe’s last dictatorship) and...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies
On Salience In a provocative op-ed for Al Jazeera, political scientist Tarak Barkawi explains how “9/11 stole my whiteness.” The politics of race in a post-9/11 world is, let’s just say, tricky—and...
Tags: global health, Reproductive Health, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies
City as Laboratory Living Labs Global, a non-profit based in Copenhagen that promotes innovative solutions to urban problems, recently announced the winners of their 2012 awards. Twenty-one cities...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies
Mass Advocacy and Controversy Invisible Children’s Kony2012—a 30-minute YouTube video—has gone famously “viral,” garnering more than 70 million views in a week, with numbers still growing. Yet,...
Tags: Foreign Aid, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies
From a No. 2 Pencil to an iPadWe think The New York Times' "Room for Debate" feature is pretty darn cool. This week, the topic is classroom technology and the Times has recruited an impressive list...
Tags: Education, Advocacy and Social Media, Evaluation Theory and Practice
Scorecards? Take a Number! The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s scorecards, which are used to evaluate a country’s eligibility for foreign assistance programs, have been recently updated with new...
Tags: Foreign Aid, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies
All About Measurement In last week’s New York Times Sunday Review section, Robert Crease wrote a thoughtful piece about the limitations of our thinking about measurement. The essay points out how our...
Tags: Reproductive Health, APEP News, Evaluation Theory and Practice

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