PUBLICATION | DECEMBER 2020 Pushing for Change: Lessons for Supporting and Conducting Highly Sensitive Advocacy By Marie-Hélène Adrien, Håvard Bergo, Rhonda Schlangen Advocacy is about change, and change is inevitably contested. But how should advocates and funders approach advocacy when the change being proposed is particularly sensitive? This paper shares learning from evaluation and research…
PUBLICATION | MARCH 2019 No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation The Center for Evaluation Innovation By Jim Coe and Rhonda Schlangen Complex change rarely unfolds in a straight line. It’s shaped by forces no single actor controls, so the work of trying to influence it can’t follow a tidy,…
PUBLICATION | 2014 The Value Iceberg: Weighing the Benefits of Advocacy and Campaigning Better Evaluation By Rhonda Schlangen and Jim Coe In this paper, Jim Coe and I discuss how, in value terms, advocacy is an iceberg. The most significant benefits are often submerged: difficult to measure, to monetize, and sometimes even to see. Efforts…
PUBLICATION | 2011 Looking through the Right End of the Telescope Center for Evaluation Innovation By Jim Coe and Rhonda Schlangen An evolving dialogue has emerged among advocates, evaluation professionals, and funders concerned with evaluating advocacy. An earlier focus on questions regarding whether it is possible to evaluate advocacy has led to a proliferation of…
PUBLICATION | November 2018 The Advocacy Capacity Review Guide: A Facilitated Process for Assessing Organizational Capacities to Advocate for Family Planning and Reproductive Health By Rhonda Schlangen and the Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program The Advocacy Capacity Review (ACR) is a facilitated process to help civil society organizations explore advocacy as a strategy to advance…
PUBLICATION | 2017 Shifting the Balance of Power: Evaluating a Foundation’s Effort to Build Local Advocacy Capacity in sub-Saharan Africa American Evaluation Association Organized by Rhonda Schlangen and David Devlin-Foltz Foundations that are supporting local ownership of international development solutions need to learn about structures and practices that will drive sustainable action. In this session…