Continued Education

I hold post-graduate certificates in project management and evaluation, issued by institutions of Higher-Education.

• • • Certificate in Evaluation for Social Change and Transformational Learning (Simon Fraser University, Continued Studies. June 2020).
    • Certificate in Applied Project Management (Langara College, 2005. Registered with the Project management Institute, ® PMI).
    • Certificate in Program Evaluation Specialized at Crime Prevention (Instituto de Políticas Públicas, Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana (CESC) at Universidad de Chile. 2008).

As part of my commitment to continued education in professional project management and evaluation, every year I participate at various courses (PDUs). I entirely recommend the 2-week intensive course Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, delivered by Mosaic International, which I completed in July 2010. Previously, during April-August 2013, I completed two (40-Hrs each) courses from UNICEF & Claremont Graduate University: Emerging Practices in Development Evaluations, and Equality Issues in Development Evaluations.

I am an active member of the following professional associations: Project Management Institute, PMI (member No. 1611673), the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES), and the American Evaluation Association (AES).

Appreciative Inquiry (AI):

Since 2009 I have been a learner of AI and am interested at integrating it into my practice of project management and evaluation in non-profit sectors.

AI was developed in the mid 1980s primarily by students and faculty of the Department of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. Appreciative Inquiry attempts to use ways of asking questions and envisioning the future in-order to foster positive relationships and build on the present potential of a given person, organisation or situation. The most common Appreciative Inquiry model I practice utilizes a cycle of 4 processes (4Ds), which focuses on what it calls:

• • • • Discover: The identification of organizational processes that work well.
      • Dream: The envisioning of processes that would work well in the future.
      • Design: Planning and prioritizing processes that would work well.
      • Destiny (or Deploy): The implementation (execution) of the proposed design.

The aim is to build – or rebuild – organizations around what works, rather than trying to fix what doesn’t. My role as AI practitioner is to try to convey this approach as the opposite of the traditional problem-solving.

My AI practice profile can be viewed online at the Appreciative Inquiry Commons by Case Western Reserve University.

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