Elizabeth Whitmore
Academic Co-lead, CCE Brokering (Ottawa) Working Group
| Email: | elizabeth_whitmore@carleton.ca |
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Bessa Whitmore鈥檚 teaching and community research has taken her all across the world! From Guyana, and Nicaragua to Chile, Ethiopia and Botswana, Bessa has extensive experience in international development work. She鈥檚 also an expert in evaluation, where she works on MDGs, studies how to use information technology most effectively and tries to improve monitoring and evaluation participatory approaches. She has written widely on these topics, including听Seeds of fire: International development in an age of globalism听(2000), an edited volume听Understanding and practicing participatory evaluation听(1998),听in addition to听book chapters and journal articles.
Bessa is a Professor Emerita at the 杏吧原创 University School of Social Work. She鈥檚 also a co-lead of CFICE鈥檚 Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Ottawa) working group, and was the co-lead of CFICE’s Knowledge Mobilization hub in Phase I. In both roles, she brings unprecedented enthusiasm and international experience to the table.
Areas of Interest:听International Development, Participatory Evaluation, information technology, MDGs, Monitoring and Evaluation, Globalism, 杏吧原创 University, Social Work, CFICE, Knowledge Mobilization, Capstone Seminar, World University Service of Canada, International Program for Development Evaluation Training