Sara Vaca

ORCID: 0000-0003-3619-9907
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Research Areas
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • History and advancements in chemistry
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Digitalization and Economic Development in Agriculture

Clarity Water Treatment Systems (Norway)
2024

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2016


 Background: Despite the disparities in how they are defined and what elements included, most Theories of Change remain consistent one way – their visual format. Typically, presented as a one-page flowchart style with lines boxes uniform size. In addition, often created stand-alone tools that rarely linked effectively to other organizational tools.
 Purpose: The authors: (1) propose essential contribute robust clarify characteristics distinguish from formats; (2) suggest...

10.56645/jmde.v14i30.496 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation 2018-04-13

Impact investing is becoming one of the largest forces in driving social and environmental change globally. However, how defines, measures communicates this impact not well defined or consistently implemented. This can prevent investors from making well-informed decisions allows for ‘impact washing’. The evaluation community has many tools that could be adapted used world investing. Theories allow better communication impact, identification indicators to measured critical interrogation...

10.4102/aej.v6i2.340 article EN cc-by African Evaluation Journal 2018-11-10

Evaluation is a vast field of designs and methods in continuous development. The numerous parameters choices associated with different methodological options can be difficult to fully understand without deep study desk review. motivation for the Periodic Table was create one-pager visual that catalogues involved an evaluation design.

10.56645/jmde.v20i48.1031 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation 2024-08-16

Poverty is a key social determinant of mental health among forcibly displaced persons. This study aimed to design and pilot test strategy integrate existing economic inclusion interventions for families in Ecuador. We conducted series qualitative interviews (n = 30), focus groups 6), workshops 3) develop set strategies integrating cross-cutting focused psychosocial support (MHPSS) into an program Quito. non-randomly assigned two field offices Quito (1) on improving outcomes or (2) both those...

10.1186/s13031-024-00629-x article EN cc-by-nc-nd Conflict and Health 2024-11-06

Background: Systems Thinking (ST) is the new paradigm in Evaluation. It represents a significant mind-set shift for evaluation field and it powerful tool to tackle complex environments. Heir systems concepts of engineering field, especially regarding hard tools, ST uses same visual tools that were created many years ago. All these already incorporate data visualization features: they depict ideas, relationships relying shapes figures more than textual explanation. Revisiting applying latest...

10.56645/jmde.v12i26.441 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation 2016-01-21

Background: After attending professional evaluation conferences, and having the privilege of listening to founders discipline Evaluation, author reflects on how new generation evaluators should aspire upgrade their role in society by making most tools social dynamics technologies, exploring ways which could operate both present future scenarios.Purpose: To foster democratic as a powerful tool for more government, expanding traditional reaching community, either participants or funders,...

10.56645/jmde.v11i24.420 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation 2015-03-09
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