How do I know effective weaving when I see it? Causal mechanisms help, especially at portfolio-level Here I explain why & discuss "routing" - a mechanism that seems to be everywhere - and yet I am unsure whether it's been named medium.com/@florcig/inv...

Este miercoles Taller Caminos Causales en la conferencia Relac pueden pre registrarse en el lobby de zoom bit.ly/relac2025

In the push to find ways to overcome the current crisis, we may be missing what’s already quietly working where continuity & change meet. Invisible weavers don’t demand a new orchestra — they are the rhythm section. And we need them now more than ever 💡 for supporting them & make efforts go further

With civic infrastructure and NGOs facing threats around the world, Florencia Guerzovich writes that the vital people who make grant money go further are often hidden in plain sight. Florencia Guerzovich(@guerzovich.bsky.social‬) Reports: tinyurl.com/y7v8zzb5 #GrantsForResilience

🇧🇷 internet is meeting 🇺🇸 #administrative law's #engagement tools & its tech infrastructure via USTR 👀 #opengov #participation #notice&comment #innovation

"nunca subestime o passado meu filho, ele está sempre querendo voltar" - Odete Roitman #ValeTudo

🌍 How can #portfolio evaluation keep up with the complexity of today’s global challenges? In my new piece, I share insights from a practical, sharp #glocal25 conversation 📖 Read here 👉 medium.com/@florcig/bey... #Evaluation #SystemsChange #AdaptiveLearning #GlobalDev #Portfolio

The use of political economy analysis in monitoring and evaluation: report of a workshop twpcommunity.org/wp-content/u... @‪guerzovich.bsky.social‬

The Future of Evaluation: Portfolio Approaches to Global Challenges Expect sharp insights! **Register here**: [https://lnkd.in/de9KU8kq) Let’s shape the future of evaluation, together. #Evaluation #gLOCAL2025 #GlobalHealth #Innovation #Learning #EvaluationWeek #portfolio

💬The Interview Paradox: It’s Time We Talk About This Critical Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Tool! medium.com/p/the-interv...

Block-Bridge-Build is a framework rooted in theory & practice of conflict transformation, civil resistance, & democratic renewal & aims to resist harm (block), facilitate dialogue across divides (bridge), & construct more inclusive, resilient futures (build) nonprofitquarterly.org/block-bridge...

⏰Gestão Adaptativa ao Longo dos Ciclos de Projetos: Um Olhar sobre a Coerência no Tempo medium.com/@florcig/ges...

⏰Gestión Adaptativa a traves de los Ciclos de Proyecto: Una Mirada sobre la #Coherencia en el Tiempo medium.com/@florcig/ges...

3️⃣ Lecciones Prácticas sobre el Ajuste Adecuado del monitoreo, evaluación y aprendizaje para Efectos Multiplicativos medium.com/@florcig/3%E...

3️⃣Lições Práticas sobre o Ajuste Adequado do monitoramento, avaliação e aprendizagem para Efeitos Multiplicativos medium.com/@florcig/3%E...

📌 ¿Es el todo mayor que la suma de sus partes? medium.com/@florcig/es-... 🌱 Traducciones de reflexiones sobre #Monitoreo y #Evaluación, #coherencia #complejidad y #aprendizaje

A busca por um impacto maior que a soma das partes é fundamental para a mudança social. Mas como fazer isso na prática? #coerência e os desafios de #avaliar #efeitosmultiplicativos Vale a pena ler! 👇 medium.com/@florcig/o-t...

Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

🌱 Começando a escrever em português: traduções de reflexões sobre Monitoramento e Avaliação Complexa #sistemas #portfolios medium.com/p/come%C3%A7...

🌱 Empezando a escribir en español: traducciones de reflexiones sobre Monitoreo y Evaluación en contextos complejos medium.com/p/empezando-...

Discouraging and devaluing faculty participation in service undermine the public impact of universities, I argue in my @insidehighered.com article. 🧵(1/5) #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Last night I listened to Caetano & Bethânia sing Iza live at Arena Gremio wow Faith for those who are badass Faith for those who don't lose focus Faith to face these motherfuckers official video in BH www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

🔎 Tom Aston & I convened conversation on #Monitoring & #Evaluation in Thinking & Working #Politically @twpcommunity.org 👀 You can read our takeaways lnkd.in/eHxEHDQd, incl reflections on key practical building blocks of M&E such as learning cadences ▶️ Watch the webinar here: lnkd.in/eyYq7X2z

January - February Newsletter now out. Read the newsletter here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/twpcop/p...

After extensively studying the strategies implemented by Bolsonaro's government to undermine public administration, I can confidently assert that these tactics follow a tested playbook. This approach has been employed by various governments globally and is now being adopted by the Trump admin. +

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I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

USAID's foreign aid dashboard with data on all foreign assistance is down now. I downloaded all data last night after USAID's other database, the DEC, was removed. If you know others archiving government data, please share. In the meantime, contact me if you need the files.

Stay strong everyone in the #foreignaid world. We carried out some #data collection on the #SWO for #aid. More than 50% orgs reporting (profit and non-profit) won't make it until May. Pls share. #usaid #intdev #development

Many scholars of democratic innovations focus on the best design, and once in the field, they complain because the reality doesn't fit. It would be much more productive to start from the context and see what is feasible instead of planning the impossible.

I see this as a common problem in #evaluation too - premature focus on statistical significance of differences in means without checking distributions (bi-modal? skewed?) or bivariate or multivariate patterns. Something I used to emphasise when teaching statistics to students.

"Ready to test?... “jumping straight to the hypothesis test, psychologists too often neglect the groundwork that is necessary to ensure a sound link between test & tested theory” The same goes for the social sciences" @GerardoMunck #evaluation too Read + journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Thank you @guerzovich.bsky.social for this great bringing together of #rubrics and #theoryofchange with an important addition - #typologies! It all makes such sense now - and shows the value of simple cataloguing as an initial task in #qualitativedatanalysis. #evaluation #impactevaluation

🤔 Are you using a screwdriver to evaluate your portfolio when a Swiss army knife is needed? 🛠️ Ideas on mixing and matching rubrics, typologies, & theories of change to tailor assessment for decision-making. 🛑 Some thoughts on MEL of "holding the line" in some places medium.com/@florcig/nav...

Calling all #anticorruption nerds based in the Global South! There is still time to apply for these great new fellowships. Please share widely!

the 1st webinar (14/1) of the "Crime and Money Laundering" series: 📌 The evolving regulatory landscape 📌 The role of FATF standards and banks 📌 Technology for detecting or facilitating ML w/@ElisadeAnda (@FATFNews) & @rodemichele61 (@el_BID). RSVP: ow.ly/jgYt50UBWPH via @Transcrime & @GAI

🔔In case you missed it: Our event on Monitoring and Evaluation in Thinking and Working Politically 🔎How can we tell if efforts to promote change through politically informed approaches are working? with Flor Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social and Tom Aston Watch the recording 👉 youtu.be/Szy0Nfj5oOQ

Join us today at 3 pm GMT!

📣Kickback Global Anticorruption Podcast episode asks Does the corruption field have a learning problem?🧐 ⁦ @guerzovich.bsky.social Tom Shippley Robert Barrington ⁩ discuss the role of ‘Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning’ in building effective #anticorruption strategies 👂https://shorturl.at/ztlL6

1 Week to go! 📣 Register for our upcoming event on Monitoring and Evaluation in TWP 📅 11 December 🕒 3pm GMT 💬 A fishbowl discussion facilitated by Flor Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social and Tom Aston 👉 bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

💬 Last October, Sheryl Stumbras Rachel Gondo, David Jacobstein & I chatted about 🔗 Links Between #Democracy, #Rights #Governance & #Local #Capacity Strengthening at @USAID's Local Capacity Forum 2024 ▶️ video now available with captions www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyS...

Sigue a nuestras colegas en esta red social! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Welcome! The TWP CoP works to promote politically aware approaches to development, encourage their adaptation, translate findings & implications emerging from PEAs into operationally relevant guidance, provide evidence-based insights for innovation, sharing and learning. 👉https://twpcommunity.org/

💥 New KB episode asks: Does the corruption field have a learning problem? 🧐 ⁦⁦@shipley_tom1 an I ⁩ discuss the role of ‘MEL’ in building effective #anticorruption strategies. w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=...

#socialaccountability in open, opening, closing & closed spaces in Latin America today from education to security to water and health people & relationships to solve problems & work for democracies

From Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 reflecting & celebrating with govt & civil society: organized #civilsociety & #democracy Very exciting 🤩 group of colleagues from across the region, especially the many young women who build & adapt resilient #civicspace & #socialcontracts day in & out #MEPYD #CASFL

Part 2 with concrete recommendations for donors interested in investing a global evidence architecture that responds better to users' needs thomasmtaston.medium.com/how-to-think...

Nos vemos en el Congreso Internacional de Sociedad Civil, 19-20 noviembre en Santo Domingo. Participan más de 10 países para fortalecer la #democracia. 🌍🏛️ forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon...