Fostering stronger partnerships between funders and community-based evaluators
SECPI creates space for funders, ‘typically lead’ evaluation firms, and small community-based firms to explore and build truer partnerships.
LEARN ABOUT SECPIOur work helps funders, evaluation commissioners, and ‘typically lead’ evaluation firms adjust their selection and contracting practices to better welcome small community-based firms and their unique expertise.
Small community-based evaluation firms’ deep knowledge of context, culture, and community contributes to
better understanding of problems and how to address them.
ABOUT US
Our team believes that when smaller community-based firms have opportunities to share their unique understandings of context, community, and culture, the funders who invest in their communities can respond more effectively to the needs of those they serve.
WHAT WE DO
Through webinars, publications, presentations, working groups, and one-on-one conversations, we are contributing to a movement that seeks to center small and solo community-based evaluation firms.
JOIN US
We welcome funders, evaluation firms of all sizes, evaluators, and others interested in centering small and solo community-based evaluation firms and their unique knowledge grounded in context, community, and culture.
“The SECPI initiative is stewarding an important conversation about the necessary role that local, proximate evaluation consultants play in the social sector and for local communities across the globe. We appreciate Carlisle and Hippolyt’s leadership and efforts in bringing attention to this crucial topic and creating space for diverse perspectives through the webinar series and other efforts which are invaluable to the progress and inclusivity of the sector.”
Pam Nippolt, Manager, Evaluation & Organizational Learning, and Elizabeth Kruger, Director, Evaluation & Organizational Learning,
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
We believe that stronger partnerships between funders and small and solo community-based evaluation firms can lift up the voices of people at the center of change processes to provide grounded insights that contribute to lasting, positive change.
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