6 Years of Convening Environmental

Evaluators:Who are we today?

Where should we head?

Christina KakoyannisEvaluation OfficerNational Fish & Wildlife Foundation

6th annual EEN forumWashington, DCJune 23-24, 2011

Organizational Affiliation

53%

16%

13%

11%

5% 1%

Federal gov't

NGOs

Consultants

Academia

Other

State/local gov't

Where We Live

6 4 12%75%

Int’l 3%

Educational Background

Discipline:

Environmental & Life Sciences: ~50%

Public Policy & Admin: ~25%

Social Sciences: ~20%

High

scho

ol

Vocat

iona

l

Colle

ge

Mas

ters

Ph.D

.J.D

.0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Years of Evaluation Experience

48%

26%

13%

5%8%

0-5 yrs

6-10 yrs

11-15 yrs

16-20 yrs

>20 yrs

Job Time Spent on Evaluation

0-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-100%0

10

20

30

40

50

Pe

rce

nt

of

Re

spo

nd

en

ts

Experience with Methods & Evaluation Approaches

Cluster evaluationAuditing

Mgmt info systemsExperimental designs

Cost effectiveness/Benefit Multi-site

Impact analysesParticipatory evaluation

Process evaluationCase study design

Needs assessmentsSurvey research methods

Performance measurementInterviews and focus groups

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

Future Priorities for the Field

Evaluating effectiveness, impact (22%)

Performance measurement (19%)

Rigor of evaluation design & methods (14%)

Capacity-building (8%)

Communication/dissemination (8%)

Collaboration (8%)

Preference for Staying Connected

Fark, StumbleUpon, or PropellerDigg, Mixx, or Reddit

EEN websiteDelicious

Email/listservTwitter

FacebookLinkedIn

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%