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Frontiers, 2024

A principles-based community health center for addressing refugee health: the New Canadians Health Centre

November 2024

EvalByte: AEA 2024 Reflection

EvalByte: Cultivating Safe Spaces

What We Heard: Advancing Meaningful Evaluation in the Field of Early Childhood

Evaluation Capacity Network: Fall 2023 Partner Report

EvalByte: Journeys through Early Learning and Childcare: Experiences of Ethnocultural Families (Part 2)

EvalByte: Journeys through Early Learning and Childcare: The Experience of Cultural Minority Families

Evaluation Capacity Building Survey Results

Evaluating Ourselves: What We Learned

Evaluating Ourselves: A Summary of Findings from the Second Year of our Partnership Evaluation

EvalByte: Tackling Challenge Areas in Evaluation

EvalByte: The All in For Youth Initiative: Year 6 Evaluation

EvalByte: LaboEval

EvalByte: ECN Partnership Evaluation Year 2

EvalByte: Indigenous Evaluation Network (IEN) Summit 2024

EvalByte: Helping Nonprofits Navigate a Complex World Through Strategic Learning

EvalByte: Evaluating an Innovative Model of Experiential Co-Learning

EvalByte: Documenting the Development of the New Canadians Health Centre (part 2)

EvalByte: Documenting the Development of the New Canadians Health Centre

EvalByte: Building Evaluation Capacity with Diverse Needs in Alberta’s Mentoring Sector

EvalByte: Childhood Educator Wage Grid

EvalByte: Alberta Compensation Framework Project

EvalByte: Creating Workforce Stability in the Early Learning and Child Care Sector

EvalByte: Culturally Responsive & Decolonizing Evaluation: A Network Conversation

EvalByte: Weaving Indigenizing and Decolonizing Approaches Into Community-Based Evaluations

EvalByte: Bringing Awareness to Children, Youth, and Families’ Mental Health During the Pandemic

CUP Impacts 2022: Evaluation Capacity Network

Advancing Evaluation Practices in the Field of Early Childhood Development

Relieving the Data Burden

A new call to action addressing the issue of "data burden" faced by community organizations

Weaving Together Accountability and Learning in Complex Situations

Mark Cabaj, President of Here to There, shares his thoughts on evaluating complex issues - a "wicked challenge"

UEval: A New Model of Evaluative Learning

“Evaluation is key to unpacking what works, why it works and what is needed to establish long-lasting change”

UEval 2.0: Good News to Technophobes

Five key takeaways from our experience transitioning UEval online this year.

Terra Brentwood Project: Developing a Model of Supportive Housing for Teen Parents

The ECN, Terra Centre, and Brentwood Housing Society partner to address a complex social issue

What does Evaluation Mean to You?

A blog post from our trainees, sharing unique perspectives around what evaluation means to them

Promoting Evaluative Thinking in Everyday Practice: Eval Lab 2.0

An interview with Dr. Bethan Kingsley, an Eval Lab facilitator and former ECN postdoctoral fellow

Project Spotlight: The Manitoba Northern & Rural Institute in Evaluation

An Interview with ECN co-investigator Dr. Javier Mignone

It Takes a Village to Build Evaluation Capacity!

What actions can organizations take towards building evaluation capacity? Btissam El Hassar, ECN trainee, share her thoughts.

It's All About the Principles

Teresa Mejia, Project Manager for the All in for Youth evaluation, reflects on the principles-focused approach

ECN Member Spotlight: Susan Hopkins

Susan Hopkins, Executive Director of The MEHRIT Centre and ECN collaborator, talks about the value of the network

ECN Trainee Spotlight: Mischa Taylor

Mischa Taylor, ECN graduate trainee, reflects on her experiences with evaluation

Bringing Thinking & Learning into Strategy & Planning: Eval Lab 3.0

A sneak peek to Eval Lab 3.0 and five key attributes of strategic thinking.

Developmental Evaluation

What is developmental evaluation and why would I use it? Julia Roy, ECN trainee, shares her thoughts.

5 Insights from Taking a Principles-Based Approach to Measurement

Ryan Lacanilao from Alberta Health shares his reflections on principles-based evaluation

Co-Investigator Spotlight: Dr. Leslie Fierro

An interview with ECN co-investigator Dr. Leslie Fierro

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation | March 2021

UEval: Bringing Community-Based Experiential Learning to the Evaluation Classroom

Evaluation Journal of Australasia | March 2022

Evaluation in the Field of Early Childhood Development: A Scoping Review

American Journal of Evaluation | March 2024

Mapping Evaluation Use: A Scoping Review of Extant Literature (2005–2022)

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation | March 2022

Responding to the Evaluation Capacity Needs of the Early Childhood Field: Insights from a Mixed Methods Community-based Participatory Design

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation | March 2021

Competency-Based Evaluation Education: Four Essential Things to Know and Do

Engaged Scholar Journal | Fall 2017

Developing an Evaluation Capacity Building Network in theField of Early Childhood Development

CUP Annual Report | May 2019

Evaluation Capacity: A Critical Tool for Social Innovation