Kerry Albright

Guided by the Compass: Navigating Impact through Evaluation at UNICEF How evaluation serves as UNICEF’s compass—shaping decisions, fostering accountability, and driving impact through lessons from the 2022–2025 Strategic Plan.

🧭Guided by the compass: #Evaluation keeps #UNICEF on course—driving impact, organizational learning & accountability for children. Insights from the Evaluation of the #UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 show the power of evidence & youth voices as we look to 2026–2029.
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“In the marketplace of evidence synthesis there’s a lot of quick & dirty. . . . Commitment to those principles [of research integrity] is unevenly distributed.”

Prof Julian Elliot of the Future Evidence Foundation on AI use in ES.

#EIS2025 #ISHCA @eisummit.org

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5 ways to shift the system: flexible cross-system funding, implementing what works, de-implementing what doesn't work, driving person-centred innovation, embedding outcome measurement.

📢 #UNICEF #Evaluation seeking 2 individual consultants for an Evaluability Assessment & Formative Evaluation on UN Child Rights Mainstreaming Roles:

🔹 Senior Evaluation Lead 👉 bit.ly/4nQNmkT

🔹 Child Rights Expert 👉 bit.ly/486TAbz

🌍 Remote | Dec 2025–May 2026 | Apply by Nov 17

Government of Brazil and UNICEF launch Executive Course for Evaluation Leaders

🎓Over 40 leaders from #Brazil’s federal government joined #UNICEF & ENAP for the first national Executive Course for #Evaluation Leaders. The programme builds champions for evidence-based policies benefiting children & families. 🎯Learn more: www.unicef.org/lac/en/press... 👈 #ExCEL #EvaluationLeaders

🚀One year on from the landmark Wellcome Trust & UK Research & Innovation investments, the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative is moving from ambition to action.
📺Watch live! Sun. 21 Sep, UN Web TV: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k18...
🔗Details: tinyurl.com/UNGA-event
#UNGA #BeHope #GoalsLounge

The EIS Virtual webinar recording from this month is now available. Watch now: www.eisummit.org/events

"The role of evidence intermediaries in bridging the evidence–implementation gap" #EIS2025 #ImpSci #EvidenceSynthesis @kerryalbright.bsky.social @cei-global.bsky.social @ishca-25.bsky.social

What a treat it was to discuss all things #evidence and #intermediaries with these two wonderful ladies. Sign up for #EIS2025 to hear more conversations like this.

What an hour of power! 🤯

@kerryalbright.bsky.social on the need to be led by users' evidence needs...

“Very often still we [in academia] fall into the trap of having our thing. . . we are pushing rather than pulling.”

...& focus on the relationship:

"Legitimacy is earned not granted "

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@kerryalbright.bsky.social also spoke about the need to shift to a mindset of "capacity sharing" rather "capacity building" when working with evidence generators and users.

Both Kerry & Isabella spoke about the need to understand the evidence user & get creative in how evidence is shared.

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“We ought to be able to shop around to find the best evidence to support our everyday lives & decisions,” says @kerryalbright.bsky.social. To take findings & share them in much more accessible ways (incl soap opera, dance, song) that resonate with audiences, while not losing research integrity.

Showing the value of this work, and building legitimacy for it is an ongoing challenge, says @kerryalbright.bsky.social.

What tools & skills do intermediaries need? "You have to be a connector across different sectors & interests" says @kerryalbright.bsky.social. Be a social listener, be able to see the bigger picture, be able to understand emerging trends & concerns.

The next #EIS2025 webinar 6 Aug w/ @kerryalbright.bsky.social & Isabella Luksic, explores the critical role of evidence intermediaries in closing the persistent gap between what we know and what we do

Register now: www.eisummit.org/events

#ImpSci #EvidenceSynthesis #Policy #Practice #Research

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Register now for a webinar series hosted by ESIC for citizen-serving and citizen-led NGOs and for citizen leaders to share insights in how we can better learn from others around the world surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/i...

📣 Calling citizens involved in citizen-serving or citizen-led NGOs. Help develop citizen engagement in the plans of the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative (ESIC) and how evidence is co-created and used. More information on the ESIC webinars below. surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/i...

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

"The answer to science’s influence problem is not trust building but rather aiding better-placed confidence and communicating the truth in a more compelling way, one that does not assume a lack of competing sources or that everyone is playing by the same rules of evidence."

One year ago, on April 16, 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was launched.

In this blogpost, we highlight some of the developments during this past year:

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Thanks Richard! Slowly but surely rebuilding my network! Hope you are well.

UK child poverty numbers reach a record high About 31% of children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, government figures show.

BBC News - UK child poverty numbers reach a record high
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A globe with networks of light and data points surrounding it. Text reads: Upcoming event - artificial intelligence and knowledge management evaluation synthesis: increasing impact and sustainability

How can we harness the power of knowledge management and AI to make evaluation evidence more accessible and usable?

🗓️ Our upcoming dialogue will explore how these tools can enhance evaluation evidence synthesis.

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🌍 High quality evidence is crucial to informing decision-making in development and foreign policy contexts.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our dialogue this week on advancing the use of AI and knowledge management for global evidence synthesis. 🙏

#artificialintelligence #ai

#UNICEF has achieved gender parity, creating a better workplace for women by addressing imbalances & promoting gender champions. Happy Women’s Day! 🙌
Read the #Evaluation of UNICEF's Gender Policy & Gender Action Plans: uni.cf/3DjmKYs 👈 #GenderEquality #IWD2025 #ForAllWomenAndGirls

🙌Celebrate International Women’s Day with #UNICEF Papua New Guinea's #evaluation of the “Improving Access to Justice for Children and #Women” project. This initiative enhances justice and protection services: 🔗https://uni.cf/4i66bhN 👈 @unicef.org #JusticeForAll

#UNICEF’s #evaluations in #Benin tinyurl.com/4ck42tx7 👈 & #Nigeria tinyurl.com/bdds52sc 👈 show how strategic interventions, financial support, and community-driven initiatives are transforming girls’ education. Investing in girls has impacts far beyond the classroom!

‘This will cost lives’: cuts to UK aid budget condemned as ‘betrayal’ by international development groups Widespread alarm at Keir Starmer’s decision to slash funds, amid warnings of dire consequences for world’s poorest

‘This will cost lives’: cuts to UK aid budget condemned as ‘betrayal’ by international development groups.
“A true measure of our international standing is how we choose to treat those who are most vulnerable, exposed, and in danger."
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A massive shift in the #UNCRC Committee today with the departure of several members, including the wonderful Ann Skelton and Mikiko Otani who have both led it so brilliantly at different points during the last 8 years. Chapeau and gratitude to them both for all they have done for #childrights!

Green image with bank notes in the background. White text reads, "We could raise 24 billion pounds a year by taxing the super rich. So why cut aid to people facing poverty?"

📢 The UK Government plans to make deep cuts to the aid budget, claiming it’s a choice between defence spending or humanitarian aid. Yet a small tax on the super rich would raise £24 billion a year.
Tell your MP to speak up ➡️ bit.ly/4i0SgK6

Takers not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism | Oxfam International

Last year, there was one trillionaire! Now, Oxfam projects that if current trends continue, there will be 5 trillionaires within a decade.

Meanwhile, 3.6B people still live below the $6.85 poverty line!

Read @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's #TakersNotMakers report: www.oxfam.org/en/research/...