Senior MEL Advisor / Agency Burden Reduction Program Manager USAID, Washington, United States
USAID staff are addressing evaluation usage through a behavioral change lens. How do you incentivize target evaluation users to engage in the evaluation process? How do you incentivize leadership and those managing programs to see evaluations with potentially negative findings as an opportunity for learning? How do you incentivize busy staff to read through reports perceived to be typically written in academic-ese? How does storytelling aid or inhibit this process?
We will share some of the tools we are using to address these issues, including actionable learning agendas, early utilization and dissemination plans, participatory evaluation design and implementation, co-creation workshops, and communication strategies and tactics.
