Exploring the Challenges Implementers Face
GeoField 2023 Convening Video Playlist (Youtube)
The GeoField 2023 Convening, held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, brought together 100 experts in impact evaluation, Earth Observation (the use of technologies and techniques to monitor planet Earth remotely, often from space), and development program implementation.
Exploring the Challenges Implementers Face
Speakers/Panelist
Moderator: Hanna Camp (Mercy Corps),Brad Sagara (Mercy Corps)
Session Description
This Implementer-focused session presents a facilitated discussion about the challenges we experience in planning for evaluations, with a focus on challenges with evaluations that utilize geospatial methods. The session provided an open space to share previous successes or lessons learned in program evaluation and talk about how organizational capacity, sector, and size have affected the evaluation outputs. The session closes with a discussion of how implementers interested in improving our evaluation planning and preparation can best coordinate and share knowledge moving forward.
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Speakers and Presenters in this Video
Brad Sagara is Mercy Corps’ Director for Research and Learning and lead on the USAID-funded Resilience, Evaluation, Analysis and Learning award (REAL) and oversees the agency’s global Resilience Research portfolio, where his team generates robust evidence that responds to major program and policy questions on resilience-related topics. This includes but is not limited to evaluating the effectiveness of resilience building investments, social and market systems dynamics in humanitarian and development response, resilience in fragile and conflict affected contexts, and return on investment of resilience building efforts.
Hanna Camp is a Director of MEL Technologies with Mercy Corps’ Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team. Since joining Mercy Corps in 2018, she created and now leads an initiative to improve the accessibility and utilization of MEL Technology across Mercy Corps programs. The MEL Tech initiative established common organizational data technologies and standards for MEL, conducts global data technology trainings, and delivers MEL Tech implementation support reaching Mercy Corps offices in more than 40 countries. Hanna works directly with Mercy Corps teams to implement more efficient analysis pipelines and data-driven processes based on MEL Tech. She also leads multiple grant-funded projects focused on developing resources for specific thematic areas such as reduced access MEL and context analysis.
Before joining Mercy Corps, Hanna worked as a data analyst and project manager for organizations focusing on agricultural climate analytics, smallholder farming services, and long-term international trends forecasting.