Advocacy Evaluation

PUBLICATION | MARCH 2022 Evaluation of the Hewlett Foundation’s Sub-Strategy to Support Local Family Planning and Reproductive Health Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa By David Devlin-Foltz, Susanna Dilliplane, Rhonda Schlangen, Julie Tumbo, and Coumba Touré This is the final report of a five-year developmental evaluation of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s efforts to shift power…

PUBLICATION | 2022 Pulling up the Floorboards: Reshaping accountability and evaluation in an era of core costs grantmaking By Jim Coe and Rhonda Schlangen Holding resources has traditionally meant that funders also hold the levers of power – and the ability to direct others’ efforts in specific directions. In this thought paper, Jim Coe and…

PUBLICATION | SEPTEMBER 2021 Radical Rerouting: New Roads for Advocacy Evaluation New Directions in Evaluation By Rhonda Schlangen and Jim Coe This journal article discusses the evolution of the evaluation of advocacy and its alignment with different parties’ interests in rigor, participation, and usefulness. We suggest that a narrow conception of power is acting as…

PUBLICATION | SEPTEMBER 2021 Pushing Boundaries: Advocacy Evaluation and Real-Time Learning in an HIV Prevention Research Advocacy Coalition in sub-Saharan Africa New Directions in Evaluation By  Jules Dasmariñas and Rhonda Schlangen Evaluation processes that facilitate learning among advocates must be nimble, creative, and meaningful while transcending putative performance and accountability management. This article describes the…

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 As efforts at driving change become more diffuse, involve more actors, and have more transformational goals, we need a radically different approach to thinking about and assessing what…

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…