RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints

About J. Michael BambergerLinda S. Mabry

Michael Bamberger has been involved in development evaluation for fifty years. Beginning in Latin America where he worked in urban community development and evaluation for over a decade he became interested in the coping strategies of low-income communities how they were affected by and how they influenced development efforts. Most evaluation research fails to capture these survival strategies frequently underestimating the resilience of these communities particularly women and female-headed households. During 20 years with the World Bank he worked as monitoring and evaluation advisor for the Urban Development Department evaluation training coordinator with the Economic Development Department and Senior Sociologist in the Gender and Development Department. After retiring from the Bank in 2001 he has worked as a development evaluation consultant with more than 10 UN agencies as well as development banks bilateral development agencies NGOs and foundations. Since 2001 he has been on the faculty of the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET). Recent publications include: (with Jim Rugh and Linda Mabry) RealWorld Evaluation: Working under budget time data and political constraints (2012 second edition); (with Marco Segone) How to design and manage equity focused evaluations (2011); Engendering Monitoring and Evaluation ( 2013 ); (with Linda Raftree) Emerging opportunities: Monitoring and evaluation in a tech-enabled world (2014); (with Marco Segone and Shravanti Reddy) How to integrate gender equality and social equity in national evaluation policies and systems (2014). Linda Mabry is a faculty member at Washington State University specializing in program evaluation student assessment and research and evaluation methodology. She currently serves as president of the Oregon Program Evaluation Network and on the editorial board for Studies in Educational Evaluation. She has served in a variety of leadership positions for the American Evaluation Association including the Board of Directors chair of the Task Force on Educational Accountability and chair of the Theories of Evaluation topical interest group. She has also served n the Board of Trustees for the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessments and on the Performance Assessment Review Board of New York. She has conducted evaluations for the U.S. Department of Education National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Arts the Jacob Javits Foundation Hewlett-Packard Corporation Ameritech Corporation ATT-Comcast Corporation the New York City Fund for Public Education the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education the Chicago Teachers Academy of Mathematics and Science and a variety of university state and school agencies. She has published in a number of scholarly journals and written several books including Evaluation and the Postmodern Dilemma (1997) and Portfolios Plus: A Critical Guide to Performance Assessment (1999).