Valerie Gordon

CEI

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Regular VOPE Membership
Acronym of VOPE
CEI
Primary Contact's Full Name
Valerie Gordon
1. Full name of VOPE
Caribbean Evaluators International
2. Acronym of VOPE
CEI
3. Primary contact's name
Valerie Gordon
4. Primary contact's email
gordon.valerie@gmail.com
5. 2nd contact's name
Susan Branker Greene
6. 2nd contact's email
smbranker@gmail.com
7. 3rd contact's name
Curline Beckford
8. 3rd contact's email
cbeckjm@yahoo.com
 

Organizational Identification

10. Website
https://caribeval.org
11. Address of organization (VOPE)
P.O Box 2273, Kingston 8
Jamaica
12. Year organization (VOPE) founded
2014
13. Current status
2. Formal association/society (charter and bylaws adopted)
14. VOPE legally recognized by government?
3. Yes
15. Geographic scope
Regional (multi-national)
16. If Regional VOPE, name of region
CARIFORUM Caribbean and its Diaspora
 

Membership

20. Number of dues-paying official membership
55
21. Non dues-paying membership
70
22. Total current number of members
125
23. Total on mailing list
353
24. What is the criteria for an individual or entity to join your VOPE?
Open membership
30. Number of VOPE membership that are women
98
 

Leadership

32. Name of president/chairperson
Valerie Gordon
33. Members in active leadership positions
13
34. How active would judge your VOPE's leadership to be?
4. Quite active - meet monthly
35. Paid secretariat staff
No
36. Means of communication
  • 1. email listserv
  • 2. social media
  • 3. newsletter
  • 4. website
  • 6. annual report
37. Number of newsletters
1
38. When was the last annual report sent to members?
27 Mar 2020
39. VOPE Institutional Capacity Toolkit
2. Yes, but only a little
 

VOPE Activities and Affiliations

40. Purpose and mission
Mission
- We support our members to share and develop their knowledge and experiences around Caribbean M&E through capacity building events, sharing resources, linking peers and offering mentorship.
- We strengthen understanding of monitoring and evaluation of Caribbean interventions by stakeholders through partnership and collaboration, networking, online and face to face knowledge sharing and skill building through a database of regional M&E experts.
- We create materials, participate in regional and international development discourse and build our membership base in order to strengthen our effective involvement in M&E.
41. Recent Activities
Webinars, lectures/presentations, meetings for building alliances and partnerships, supporting National VOPEs
42. Standards / guidelines
3. Yes
43. If so, where are they accessible?
https://caribeval.org
44. Methods for strenghening skills of members
  • 2. organizing webinars with international speakers
  • 3. designing and developing e-learning programs
  • 4. administering mentoring programs
 

VOPE Affiliations

45. VOPE membership in regional or international network
Yes
46. Network name(s)
IOCE, IDEAS
47. 47.Has your VOPE participated in a P2P or Innovation Challenge grant-supported project?
1. No
 

Evaluation Advocacy

50. Has your VOPE influenced government policies & systems?
No, but we're working on it
51. Does your government have a National Evaluation Policy?
No
52. Has your VOPE partnered with Parliamentarians?
  • No (at least not yet).
53. Have you used the EvalPartners Advocacy Toolkit?
  • Yes, but in a minor way.