CO-CHAIRS, EVALINDIGENOUS
Serge Eric Yakeu Djiam |
Fiona Cram |
Credentialed Evaluator (CE), Serge Eric is the Co-Chair of EvalIndigenous, Vice-President of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), Co-Chair of the Coordination Committee of EvalPartners, Former President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), Executive Director of the Cameroonian Centre for Evaluation and Rural Development (CAED), Member of African Evidence Netowrk (AEN), Canadian Evaluation Association (CES), and Cameroon Development Evaluation Association (CaDEA). He has 20+ years’ of experience in research and evaluation with Universities (as Visiting Professor), government entities, community-based organizations, program staffs, donors/funders such as AfDB, WorldBank and EU, and UN agencies.
As International Evaluation Specialist, he led the design and implementation of over 150 country research and evaluation worldwide and within complex development and humanitarian environments. He worked in Africa; Europe; North, Central & Latin America; Middle-East; and Asia. He wrote two books and co-authored five books, training materials, +150 reports and articles. He chaired panels/sessions in monitoring and evaluation, agricultural research, research methodology, statistics, and related topics; provided workshops to various audiences worldwide such as Universities (University of Quebec in Montreal, University of Ottawa, Humboldt University in Berlin), Conferences/Webinars with various organisation (IDEAS, AfrEA, CaDEA, GEI, CES, EES, AEA, AEN, Mā Te Rae, GEF, EvalPartners). |
Fiona (Indigenous, Māori - Ngāti Pāhauwera, Aotearoa New Zealand) is the mother of one son and has a PhD from the University of Otago (Social and Developmental Psychology). She has over 30 years of Kaupapa Māori (by, with and for Māori) research and evaluation experience with Māori and Iwi/tribal organisations and communities, as well as with government agencies, district health boards, and philanthropic organisations. A large portion of this work involves the use of mixed methods in the pursuit of decolonisation, tribal sovereignty, and societal transformation. Fiona’s project work, publications and conference presentations on Kaupapa Māori have made significant contributions to indigenous research and evaluation both in Aotearoa New Zealand and within the international community. Her current work includes co-leading the Affordable Homes for Generations and the Poipoia te Kākano, Kia Puāwai research programmes funded by the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge.
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REGIONAL REPRESENTATION
Nicole “Nicky” Bowman, PhD
(Lunaape/Mohican)
carries out her work in service to others at the intersection of truth, spirituality, traditional knowledge, sovereignty, governance, and evaluation. Dr. Bowman is a traditional Lunaape/Mohican woman who has been an active Indigenous community member for 40 years and an Indigenous evaluator for nearly three decades. In 2018, she became the first Indigenous and youngest awardee of the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) Robert Ingle Service Award. She is the founder and president of Bowman Performance Consulting (BPC) and an Associate Scientist and Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Bowman supports a large portfolio of projects advancing radical Indigenous and community-led scholarship with Tribal and non-Tribal governments and philanthropic, non-profit, and private-sector organizations nationally and internationally. She is a member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), a Research Affiliate for the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA), an international board member of EvalIndigenous and the International Evaluation Academy, and has been in elected or appointed leadership for AEA, CREA, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, and EvalIndigenous. As a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society, she is co- editor and co-creator of a new permanent section for Indigenous scholarship called “Roots and Relations” in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation (CJPE). Dr. Bowman also recently co-edited a special global decolonization issue of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE) with Dr. Bagele Chilisa (Bantu Tribe of Africa),a post-colonial Botswanan scholar. Dr. Bowman has been or is a reviewer and/or journal board member for CJPE, New Directions in Evaluation, American Journal of Evaluation, and JMDE. She earned her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2015, a Master of Education degree from Lesley University in 1997, and a Bachelor of Arts in Education from St. Norbert College in 1993.
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