EnCompass is excited to announce that USAID has selected our team to implement the Innovation Design, Execution, and Acceleration Support (IDEAS) Activity. Through this project, our team will support the USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub’s…
Please join us in congratulating our Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Beeta Tahmassebi, who is beginning her term as President of Washington Evaluators. Ms. Tahmassebi previously served on the Washington […]
This post was originally published on the AEA365 blog in January 2020. Hi! We’re Ghazia Aslam and Sarah Lunsford of EnCompass LLC, with some tips on the “virtues” of virtual data collection. Virtual data collection has many […]
EnCompass wishes our partners, clients, and friends a peaceful and joyous 2021. In the video at the bottom of this post, we selected ten stories and resources that we are […]
In 2020, EnCompass has been honored to provide scholarships enabling Ana Erika Lareza and other EvalYouth members to attend courses at the EnCompass Learning Center (ELC). This partnership with EvalYouth […]
Global problems such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 require partnerships, knowledge exchange, and culturally appropriate evidence to build resilience and impact in health workforces, health systems, and communities. Today, on World […]
EnCompass congratulates Vice President Lynne Franco and colleagues on their peer-reviewed article, Operationalising health systems thinking: a pathway to high effective coverage, published November 3 in Health Research Policy and […]
In case you missed it, we have just posted a recording from the recent Eval4Action Europe regional consultation, facilitated by our CEO/CFO, Tessie Catsambas. This virtual discussion featured priorities for […]
Tessie Catsambas, EnCompass’ CEO/CFO, will speak at the next Eval4Action regional consultation for Europe on Wednesday, October 21. This regional consultation is a virtual discussion on the priorities for Europe […]
As agencies, organizations, and professionals continue to adapt to working through the COVID-19 pandemic, EnCompass remains ready to help. With our years of expertise in virtual collaboration, we have been […]
EnCompass is excited to announce its award as a holder of the USAID EVAL ME II IDIQ. This umbrella contract for monitoring and evaluation services allows us to continue our […]
EnCompass is proud to be an institutional partner for UNFPA’s Eval4Action campaign, contributing to global evaluation capacity and evaluation’s role in sustainable development. Tessie Catsambas, our CEO/CFO, has been instrumental in helping to shape the campaign.
Today, we’re excited to share a new resource from our evaluation team—An Evaluator’s Guide to COVID-19: Using Evaluative Thinking to Learn and Adapt Programs. This guide describes important ways evaluation […]
EnCompass is delighted to share a new brief about The Virtues of Virtual Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL). A decade before COVID-19, EnCompass was already integrating virtual approaches in its […]
Ghazia Aslam and Sarah Smith Lunsford co-authored this post. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all aspects of life—for everyone. Strategic and programmatic decisions are occurring, but often with incomplete, evolving, […]
EnCompass is pleased to share the final report from the Evaluation of PEPFAR’s Contribution (2012-2017) to Rwanda’s Human Resources for Health Program. In this evaluation, EnCompass assisted a National Academies of Sciences …
EnCompass is glad to announce that another member of our team, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Kimberly Norris, has taken a leadership role with an American Evaluation Association (AEA) Topical […]
EnCompass is proud to have Senior Capacity Building Advisor Gisèle Dunia on our team supporting USAID at the Demographic and Healthy Surveys (DHS) program. She was featured in this profile posted on the DHS Program blog on February 25, 2020. What is your role at The DHS Program? As the Senior Advisor for Capacity Strengthening …
UPDATE: Unfortunately, Michelle and other panelists have had to cancel travel plans to Frankfurt. But stay tuned for a story about lessons from our work with USAID as a growing women-owned […]
EnCompass is delighted to announce that Evaluation Specialist Kirsten Zeiter has been selected to chair the Feminist Issues in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) for the American Evaluation Association. Kirsten […]
Evaluations are more useful, accurate, and powerful when they are designed and implemented in collaboration with the intended audience. A recent EnCompass-led evaluation of more than 60 rule of law […]
We’re excited to introduce this new series profiling team members from around the company. This month, we feature Senior Evaluation Specialist Sarah Smith Lunsford, who also chairs EnCompass’ Institutional Review […]
This post kicks off a brief blog series on evaluation at EnCompass. We begin with an excerpt from our new paper, Mapping Outcomes: Embedding evaluation in the life of an […]
We are pleased to announce the release of a new white paper called “Mapping Outcomes: Embedding evaluation in the life of an organization for improved social change programming” by Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas and Lynne Miller Franco.
Fellow evaluators and evaluation supporters: This week, EnCompass team members are at the American Evaluation Association’s conference in Minneapolis. Follow us at @EnCompass_World or the conference hashtag #Eval19 for live […]
EnCompass’ own Beeta Tahmassebi has been chosen as Washington Evaluators’ 2020 President-Elect. Ms. Tahmassebi has served on the Washington Evaluators board for the past year as treasurer. And, as Director […]
Members of EnCompass’ evaluation team are gearing up for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Evaluation 2019 conference, occurring November 11–16. This year’s conference holds special significance for us, as our […]
This article was originally posted on the Small Business Association for International Companies (SBAIC) website and disseminated in the August 2019 Newsletter. Trafficking in persons is a form of modern […]
The first quarter of 2019 was busy for EnCompass CEO/CFO Tessie Catsambas. She is serving as the American Evaluation Association (AEA) President for the duration of the year, participating in conversations about the future of evaluation with constituencies around the United States and the world.
On January 1, EnCompass CEO/CFO Tessie Catsambas began her tenure as president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), an organization of 8,000 members from around the world seeking to improve […]