PUBLICATION | January 2024 Global Reproductive Equity Strategy Learning Review William & Flora Hewlett Foundation By Susanna Dilliplane, Rhonda Schlangen, Julie Tumbo, and Coumba Touré I am part of a Learning & Evaluation consulting team supporting the Hewlett Foundation’s five year Global Reproductive Equity Strategy, part of its Gender Equity and Governance Program. As part…
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 | 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 | 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 | SEPTEMBER 2020 Power Sharing and “Capacity Development”: Lessons from the Hewlett Foundation’s Strategy to Support Local Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa By David Devlin-Foltz, Susanna Dilliplane, Rhonda Schlangen, Julie Tumbo, and Coumba Touré In 2016, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation articulated a bold goal for its international reproductive health strategy to support local…