AI and Evaluation in Complex Contexts: Climate Resilience, Disaster Response, and Humanitarian Action
Painel de Discussão | Online
Sobre o evento
Evaluating interventions related to climate resilience and disaster risk response presents significant methodological challenges. These contexts often involve complex systems, long time horizons, uncertain outcomes, and dynamic environments.
Artificial intelligence tools may offer new possibilities for analysing complex datasets, identifying patterns across systems, and supporting monitoring in disaster-prone environments. At the same time, these technologies raise important ethical and methodological questions about bias, contextual interpretation, and responsible data use.
This session will explore how AI tools may contribute to evaluating climate resilience and disaster risk initiatives in complex contexts.
Artificial intelligence tools may offer new possibilities for analysing complex datasets, identifying patterns across systems, and supporting monitoring in disaster-prone environments. At the same time, these technologies raise important ethical and methodological questions about bias, contextual interpretation, and responsible data use.
This session will explore how AI tools may contribute to evaluating climate resilience and disaster risk initiatives in complex contexts.
Orador/a
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Mae Albeinto | Research Officer, ALNAP | Mae is a Research Officer within ALNAP ’s research pool, a team of researchers working flexibly and dynamically across a wide range of work. Researchers within the research pool support the delivery of high quality and innovative research. Mae has more than a decade of experience in the humanitarian and development sector in the Philippines. Prior to joining ALNAP in 2022, she worked as an evaluation and research consultant for local and international NGOs focusing on child protection, gender and women empowerment, livelihoods, and disaster response and management. She has academic background in evaluation, public policy and management, development studies, and psychology. |
| Parris Lyew Ayee Jr. | Director, Spatial Innovision | Parris has wide ranging interests and activities in numerous fields, including natural hazards assessment and management, crime and national security (both analytical and operational), business development, real estate development, environment, history and archeology, and geomorphology. Author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, as well as technical reports and documents, on topics ranging from the geomorphology of the Cockpit Country, to Taino archeology, crime analytical techniques, Martian rock breakdown, site-suitability for business expansion and customer distributions, analyses of school service areas, ecology, natural hazards, and many other fields. |
| Andria Grosvenor | Alliance and Cooperation Services Manager (ag), Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency | Andria is a humanitarian with a passion for helping people manage disaster risks, to which she has devoted herself for more than twenty years. She has been involved in strategic and corporate planning, resource mobilization, monitoring and evaluation at CDEMA. Ms. Grosvenor is the focal point for reporting on the regional achievement of results within the Compre hensive Disaster Management (CDM) Strategy. She possesses a B.A. in Geography, a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), a Certificate in Business Continuity Planning and a Masters Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation. She has researched, written and contributed to several publications, documents and policy papers. |
Moderators
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Nadini Persaud | Senior lecturer, MSc in Project Management and Evaluation, UWI Cave Hill | Nadini Persaud, PhD, CPA, CGA, is a tenured Lecturer in Evaluation in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She teaches primarily at the graduate level and has served as Coordinator of the Master of Science Program in Project Management and Evaluation. The recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, Dr. Persaud is an Advisory Council member for the Barbados Chapter of Chartered Professional Accountants Canada and a board member of Caribbean Evaluators International and the Faster Forward Fund. She also serves on several committees of the American Evaluation Association. Her research focuses on blending the tools of project management and accounting to improve the practice of professional evaluation. Dr. Persaud has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as several books, and has presented over 20 conference papers on the importance of cost analysis in program evaluation. |