Lotus Evaluation
A highly experienced boutique consultancy delivering evaluation and research expertise in international development, health and in culturally responsive evaluation
About Us
Lotus Evaluation is a consultancy specialising in monitoring, evaluation, research and learning for the international development and health sectors. Our extensive theoretical and practical experience, with a focus on the Asia Pacific, enables us to:
- Work on complex, multi-country evaluations
- Apply diverse evaluation methods and approaches
- Provide thoughtful, evidence-driven, fit-for-purpose design and advice
- Collaborate closely with clients throughout an evaluation
- Practice culturally responsive evaluation
- Work with donors and other governments, international and local NGOs, the United Nations, foundations and multilateral donors.
Our Services
Monitoring, evaluation and continuous learning
Lotus Evaluation has substantial experience in evaluation design and implementation – including formative and summative evaluations, mid-term reviews, providing ongoing MEL advisory services and embedding processes of continuous improvement and learning. Our MEL services include:
- MEL design – developing program logics, monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks and evaluation plans
- Implementing evaluations – developing and using data collection plans, frameworks and tools
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- Writing reports and developing other tools to disseminate findings
- Facilitating workshops
- Training and other capacity strengthening in evaluation
- Quality assurance of evaluation products
- Advising in culturally responsive evaluation approaches and methods.
We draw upon our extensive knowledge of evaluation theory and methods for our customised work. Our specialties include evaluation of health security and health systems strengthening, advocacy to policy change and culturally responsive evaluation.
Health
We have worked in monitoring, evaluation and learning in diverse areas of health including:
- The COVID-19 vaccine response from product development to administration of vaccines
- Health security
- Health systems strengthening
- Product development and regulation
- Policy advocacy
- Quality use of and access to medicines
- Indigenous eye health
- Health professional development and scholarship programs
- Health research to policy change and research translation to clinical practice
- Mental health
- Infectious and non-communicable diseases – including Covid-19, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and eye health
- Health and wellbeing programs.
We also have experience beyond health in emergency management, governance and the media, the livelihood impacts of infrastructure programs and in the volunteering sector.
Research, design and appraisal
We have expertise in a variety of research processes, including conducting literature reviews and submitting ethics applications. We have written peer-reviewed journal articles and presented research at international conferences.
We have participated in the design of multi-million dollar international development programs and conducted formal appraisals of designs and proposals.
Our most recent publications are listed below:
Dinh, K, Worth, H, Haire, B & Hong, KH 2019, ‘Confucian evaluation: reframing contribution analysis using a Confucian lens’, American Journal of Evaluation, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 562–574.
Dinh, K, Worth, H, & Haire, B 2019, ‘Buddhist evaluation: applying a Buddhist world view to the Most Significant Change technique’, Evaluation, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 477–495.
Dinh, K, Hong, KT, Haire, B & Worth, H 2020, ‘Historic and contemporary influences on HIV advocacy in Vietnam’, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Non-profit Organisations, doi: 10.1007/s11266-020-00220-x.
Our experience
Director: Dr Kathryn Dinh
Lotus Evaluation’s Director Dr Kathryn Dinh has more than 23 years of experience in international and community development, including monitoring, evaluation and learning both internationally (specialising in Asia and the Pacific) and in Australia. She has led the design and implementation of complex, multi-country evaluations of multi-million dollar international development programs and provided ongoing evaluation advice and capacity strengthening support to governments, consortiums NGOs and academic institutions. She has completed a PhD in evaluation at the School of Population Health, University of New South Wales.
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