AI and Evaluation in Complex Contexts: Climate Resilience, Disaster Response, and Humanitarian Action
Painel | Online
About the Event
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.
Speakers
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Cathy Richards | Data and Technology Lead, Open Environmental Data Project | Cathy is a technologist who helps activists, organizations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology in order to increase their impact. She previously worked at The Engine Room, taught Metrics & Data Visualization at SVA, co-founded Pueblo CoLab – a collaborative that creates tech and data processes for the social sector, and worked at GitLab and Keystone Accountability. |
| Tino Kreutzer, PhD | Chief Operating & Innovation Officer at Kobo | Tino leads Kobo's work on responsible AI for humanitarian data, including the speech-to-text pipelines for low-resource languages, and has published on the ethical implications of processing personal data with AI in crisis contexts. His has over 15 years of field experience across Africa and Asia on crisis response and humanitarian action. |
| Terence Jantzi, PhD | Senior Evaluation Specialist, The Konterra Group | Terence is a senior evaluation consultant with experiences as a practitioner, scholar or consultant in monitoring and evaluation, programming, and project design and administration for humanitarian and development programmes throughout Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Currently, he is an associate professor of practice in the Peacebuilding and Development program at Eastern Mennonite University, and Senior Evaluation Specialist for the Konterra Group. |
Moderators
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Mae Albiento | Reseaech 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. |