PAPERS
These are the papers I have writen (or co-writen) so far. I approach writing as another way of learning.
- Noel B. Verrinder, Kagiso Zwane, Debby Nixon, Sara Vaca (2018). “Evaluative tools in impact investing: Three case studies on the use of theories of change“. African Evaluation Journal | Vol 6, No 2 | a340.
- Dhillon, L., Vaca, S. (2018). “Refining Theories of Change”. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE), Vol 14, No 30 (2018).
- Vaca, S., Santos, R. (2016). “Can evaluation of Impact Investment and Development interventions learn from each other?”. Connections, European Evaluation Society’s newsletter (Special issue on “Impact Investment”, October 2016). Pages 3-6.
- Vaca, S., Santos, R. (2016). “Impact Investment – the excitement and dilemma of double-edged impact”. Connections, European Evaluation Society’s newsletter (Special issue on “Impact Investment”, October 2016). Pages 6-8.
- Vaca, S., Vidueira, P. (2016). “Improving Systems Thinking models with data visualization”. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE), Vol 12, No 26 (2016).
- Vaca, S. (2015). “How Data Visualization can help to do better evaluation”. Connections, European Evaluation Society’s newsletter (Special issue on “Emerging evaluators”, June 2015). Pages 3-7.
- Vaca, S. (2015). “Democratic evaluation and Crowdsourcing… It’s a match!”. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE), Vol 11, No 24 (2015).
- Vaca, S. (2014). “The Meta-evaluation dashboard”. Connections, European Evaluation Society’s newsletter (November 2014). Pages 8-11.
POSTS IN AEA365.org
I write often in AEA365, A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators, where I share my “all-over-the-place” thoughts about evaluation and other related things 🙂 :
- Realizing The Diversity Of My 2019 Evaluation-Related Assignments (December 2019) AEA365
- Conclusions On Evaluators’ Reading Speed (November 2019) AEA365
- Reading Speed And Evaluation (October 2019) AEA365
- The difference between “Magic” (I mean, Logic) Models and Theories of Change
- Making Bibliography Sections More User-Friendly (September 2019) AEA365
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My 8 Tips To Myself To Try To Make My Consultant Life (Physically and Mentally) Healthier (August 2019) AEA365
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My Favorite Features In Powerpoint And Illustrator for Creating Visuals (July 2019) AEA365
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What I Have Learned From Having A Website/Blog For 7 Years (June 2019) AEA365
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Why (Real) Participation Is A Still a Pipe-dream (So Far ) In My Evaluation Practice (May 2019) AEA365
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Lessons Learned from Applying for 100+ Evaluations (April 2019) AEA365
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My “Home-Made” Evaluation Tools to Avoid Gender (and Equity) Blindness (March 2019) AEA365
- About Evaluation Matrixes (February 2019) AEA365
- 7 Tips To Get Started with Data Visualization (January 2019) AEA365
- Sharing My Evaluation Doubts (II) (December 2018) AEA365
- Sharing My Top 10 Evaluation Doubts (November 2018) AEA365
- Things NOT To Do! (;-P) At The AEA Conference (November 2018) AEA365
- Promoting Critical Thinking with the Six Thinking Hats applied to Evaluation (October 2018) AEA365
- Conducting evaluations and writing reports: same object, two different realms (September, 2018) AEA365
- Facilitating the Use of Evaluations (June, 2018) AEA365
- Refining Theories of Change by Sara Vaca and Lovely Dhillon (May, 2018) AEA365
- Using Powerpoint To Do Evaluation Reports (March, 2018) AEA365
- 6 Tips for New Evaluators (March, 2018) AEA365
- 5 things that being in a consultants’ partnership and dating have in common (January, 2018) AEA365
- Sara Vaca and Pablo Vidueira on How Systems Thinking tools could be improved with better dataviz (August, 2015) AEA365
- Sara Vaca and Joseph Barnes on Using Data Visualization to celebrate EvalYear (June, 2015) AEA365
- Sara Vaca on Fostering Creativity in Evaluation (May, 2015) AEA365
- Malofiej from an evaluator’s point of view (April, 2015). Visualoop by Infogr.am
- Sara Vaca on My 3 most Remarkable Moments About Evaluation (April, 2015) AEA365
- Sara Vaca on Using Creativity to Design a Meta-evaluation Dashboard (March, 2015) AEA365
- Sara Vaca on Creativity and Evaluation Part II (February, 2015) AEA365
- Sara Vaca on Creativity and Evaluation Part I (January, 2015) AEA365
- Sara Vaca on 4 Easy Free Comic-generator Tools (June, 2013) AEA365
