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Funder & Philanthropy Practice | Learning & Evaluation | Movements & Civil Society | Mutual Accountabilities

Beyond the False Choice: Integrating Rigor and Values in Evaluation
Byrhonda schlangen November 17, 2025June 18, 2026

American Evaluation Association AEA365: Tip-A-Day for Evaluators | November 2025 Beyond the False Choice: Integrating Rigor and Values in Evaluation By Rhonda Schlangen and Melanie Kawano-Chiu Evaluators are often pressed to choose between technical rigor and values like accessibility, safety, and inclusion, as if the two were opposing goals. In this post, Melanie Kawano-Chiu of…

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Futures & Foresight | Learning & Evaluation

Evaluate Your Way into the Future with Foresight Thinking and Tools
Byrhonda schlangen February 16, 2025June 18, 2026

American Evaluation Association AEA365: Tip-A-Day for Evaluators | February 2025 Evaluate Your Way into the Future with Foresight Thinking and Tools By By Annette Gardner and Rhonda Schlangen How can change makers plan for a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous future? In this post, futurist and evaluation consultant Annette Gardner and I make the case…

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Ecosystem & Systems Change | Funder & Philanthropy Practice | Learning & Evaluation

Global Reproductive Equity Strategy Learning Review
Byrhonda schlangen January 31, 2024June 18, 2026

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…

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Ecosystem & Systems Change | Funder & Philanthropy Practice | Learning & Evaluation

Evaluation of the Hewlett Foundation’s Sub-Strategy to Support Local Family Planning and Reproductive Health Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Byrhonda schlangen January 30, 2024June 18, 2026

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…

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Funder & Philanthropy Practice | Learning & Evaluation | Mutual Accountabilities

Interrogating Assumptions About Power
Byrhonda schlangen April 6, 2022June 15, 2026

PUBLICATION | MARCH 2022 Interrogating Assumptions About Power By David Devlin-Foltz, Susanna Dilliplane, Rhonda Schlangen, Julie Tumbo, and Coumba Touré This brief is derived from a five-year developmental evaluation of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s efforts to shift power in its grantmaking ecosystem. It focuses on the Foundation’s key assumptions about power, examining the…

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Ecosystem & Systems Change | Learning & Evaluation

Radical Rerouting: New Roads for Advocacy Evaluation
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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…

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Learning & Evaluation | Movements & Civil Society

Pushing Boundaries: Advocacy Evaluation and Real-Time Learning in an HIV Prevention Research Advocacy Coalition in sub-Saharan Africa
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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…

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Advocacy & Campaigning | Ecosystem & Systems Change | Learning & Evaluation

No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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,…

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Advocacy & Campaigning | Learning & Evaluation

The Value Iceberg: Weighing the Benefits of Advocacy and Campaigning
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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…

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Advocacy & Campaigning | Learning & Evaluation

Looking through the Right End of the Telescope
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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…

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