Panama's Tocumen Airport
I start work (unpaid) with CEDESOL on Monday. Hopefully, I’ll come away with many transferable skills. Evaluations fit into many different areas: democracy building, poverty alleviation, gender empowerment, public health, etc.
I want to learn the skills that evaluators learn – surveying, interviewing, observing, typing these things, locating persons on a map, discussing who to target, considering gender/social groups, quantifying and making meaning out of the numbers, etc.
Also I have two side projects in mind that I would like to build on for my resume:
Side Project 1: Identifying CEDESOL’s priorities and expectations regarding gender analysis (since it will pertain to the organization itself it is considered to be "formative")
-Have they developed and implemented an action plan to integrate gender?
-Have they identified issues and developed solutions regarding gender participation?
-If so, what have they proposed as mechanisms to institutionalize gender analysis?
In addition, I'd like to use "summative" examination and incorporate gender (the outcomes of solar stoves). If you're not so sure what the impact of solar stoves would be beyond decreasing dependence on trees for firewood and improving one's lungs, you should consider TIME. Time makes you choose and make trade-offs.
"Comfort goods like washing machines and dishwashers free up valuable time and attention. Think of all the things the wealthy do to spend more time focusing on what’s important. They can pay bills automatically, they can hire babysitters and have food delivered, they can have their homes and clothes cleaned for them. But, in the developing world, cost-effective time savers have come much more slowly to those who most need them. Five-dollar, energy-efficient stoves can cut firewood usage, improving children’s health and halving the amount of time it takes to gather enough firewood to cook. Small solar panels systems, too, as The New York Times recently reported, can play “an epic, transformative role” in homes off the electrical grid, saving families time and money on kerosene. Broadly distributed, such simple innovations would allow the poor to avoid difficult tradeoff decisions about how they spend their time or even their money." - from here
And here is a good TED lecture with Hans Rosling on magic washing machines.
Side Project 2: Improve my media portfolio (and possibly the organization’s)
-Interviews
-Photographs
What are your thoughts?
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