The EnCompass Learning Center (ELC) is committed to strengthening communities and organizations through the use of evidence, learning, and leadership development. Our partnership with EvalYouth to provide scholarships for young and emerging evaluators is an important...

When USAID’s Center for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene began planning its session for Stockholm World Water Week, it engaged the Global Waters CKM II team at EnCompass to help it design and deliver a session on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic response. The normally...

This blog series, inspired by our P2P+ employer spotlight session, began with tips for choosing the right opportunities at EnCompass and how to put your best foot forward, and then talked about how to look at the broader market and begin building your network. This...

This is the second of three blogs in a series inspired by the P2P+ employer spotlight session. The first blog shared tips for how to choose the right opportunities at EnCompass and how to put your best foot forward. This blog will take a step back and look at tactics...

EnCompass is proud to serve as a regional partner in the P2P+ effort. P2P+, founded by the World Bank Group, UNFPA, GEI, and others, seeks to address the technical and career advisory needs of young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) through a network of peer support. For...

The EnCompass Learning Center (ELC) is committed to strengthening communities and organizations through the use of evidence, learning, and leadership development. Our partnership with EvalYouth to provide scholarships for young and emerging evaluators is an important...

Over the years, EnCompass has been a strong supporter of the American Evaluation Association Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program, regularly hosting roundtable events and networking discussions for the cohorts. As such, in 2020, we were thrilled to...

In many parts of the world, LGBTIQ+ populations are unable to fully participate in society because of discrimination, structural violence, and lack of equal employment and education opportunities. These structural issues are also reflected in agriculture and market...

When you think about utilization-focused evaluation, what do you focus on? Participatory design is one key element—building shared understanding of why we’re evaluating a program, ensuring we’re asking the right questions based on the target audiences’ needs, and...

Until recently, nearly every professional training session ended with a post-session evaluation that invited participants to provide their immediate reactions to classic questions: Were the objectives clear? Were the trainers knowledgeable? Were the activities engaging?

After almost 60 years of cooperation with USAID, Peru’s development is at a transformative stage. The shift is partly one of funding; as the country nears OECD accession, official development assistance accounts for a smaller slice of the public sector. This evolving...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the need for strong health systems and the consequences for our global community when these systems are strained. Rarely have inequities in quality of healthcare, access to resources, and distribution of support been as...

Over the past year, EnCompass has been honored to host and support the global launch and all seven regional consultations of the Eval4Action Campaign. The campaign engaged those who lead, implement, fund, and use evaluation in consultations on global and regional...