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

Transformative Shifts: From Capacity to Movement Power
Byrhonda schlangen April 30, 2023June 15, 2026

PUBLICATION | April 2023 Transformative Shifts: From Capacity to Movement Power American Jewish World Service By Rhonda Schlangen, Irit Houvras, Dorothee Molders, Joanine Nanyange, Emily Rugama, Laura Timme, and Rama Vedula From 2017-2024 I partnered with American Jewish World Services to review and reframe its approach to supporting leaders and organizations in the Global South….

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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 | Movements & Civil Society

Pushing for Change: Lessons for Supporting and Conducting Highly Sensitive Advocacy
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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…

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Ecosystem & Systems Change | Funder & Philanthropy Practice | Learning & Evaluation | Movements & Civil Society

Power Sharing and “Capacity Development”: Lessons from the Hewlett Foundation’s Strategy to Support Local Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Byrhonda schlangen October 27, 2021June 15, 2026

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…

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