I joined Oxfam in Myanmar in 2017 as a research coordinator to lead overall project management and coordination between researchers in Myanmar and researchers in the UK for the innovative …
Counting care: Everything you need to know about the new Household Care Survey toolkit
Amber Parkes‘What doesn’t get measured doesn’t get seen’. I’ve heard this phrase so many times but never has it felt truer than when it comes to unpaid care and domestic work. …
Podcast: Coronavirus and Web Data Analysis
Alexia Pretari, Simone Lombardini and Nicole SchwitterSocial media has the potential to profoundly influence the way society works. Social media has been used for understanding crowd sizes from Instagram posts and to analyse hate speech and …
The journey and challenges in measuring sustainable water in Oxfam’s impact evaluations with the HWISE Network
Jola Miziniak, Jaynie Vonk and Sera Young“It’s easy to see that water is an issue the world over. Either too much, too little or unsafe” How can we effectively measure sustainable water? How can we understand …
Podcast: Highlights of Oxfam’s Impact Evaluation of Cash for Work activities in the Za’atari camp in Jordan
Simone Lombardini, Franziska Mager, Teshome Mekonnen and Nour AliFor people living in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan there are few legally accessible work opportunities in and outside the camp. The Cash for Work activities currently being carried …
Podcast: GDPR and the right to privacy in practice for impact evaluations
Jaynie Vonk and Simone LombardiniWhat is GDPR and Oxfam’s Responsible Data Policy? How does GDPR affect the way we collect data when carrying out monitoring and evaluations? Following the recent publication of the Going …
Podcast: How to measure resilience capacities – Experience from Oxfam’s impact evaluations
Alexia Pretari and Ania GabouneOxfam defines resilience as ‘the ability of women and men to realize their rights and improve their wellbeing despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty’ (The future is a choice, Jeans et …
The good and the ‘not so good’ of our experiences with SenseMaker
Franziska MagerWhen we purchased a license for the SenseMaker research method in early 2017 (a proprietary data collection and analysis software), the excitement in our more “geeky” teams was palpable. SenseMaker …
How we’ve put into practice GDPR and conducting impact evaluations
Jaynie VonkWe have been thinking a lot about the right to privacy lately, in relation to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and our role in Oxfam as impact evaluation advisers. …
Podcast: The challenges of measuring women’s empowerment
Marina Torre and Simone LombardiniIn this episode we share Oxfam’s journey in measuring women’s empowerment in our impact evaluations. Our Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead, Marina Torre, speaks to Simone Lombardini, Impact Evaluation Lead, …