The Accord Research Alliance Podcast

Lincoln Lau, Director of Research at International Care Ministries (ICM), talks about how he reluctantly became a researcher, how he got connected to ICM, and why ICM is serious about gathering good evidence through RCTs. Bonus: he also goes into why researchers need to be thinking about epistemology. Email us your feedback at ara@accordnetwork.org Links: ICM: https://www.caremin.com/ Lincoln's faculty page: http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/lau-lincoln/ Books: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett Social Network Analysis by John Scott

Chad Hayward, Executive Director of the Accord Network, talks with us about the annual One Accord Forum and the role of research and evaluation in "measuring all that matters" to support the work of member organizations. Learn more at www.accordnetwork.org.

Today on the podcast Moriah and Kristen are LIVE from the One Accord Forum in Ridgecrest, NC. Moriah walks us through what it was like conducting Feed My Starving Children's first large-scale longitudinal study as a one-person M&E team, and some useful lessons learned along the way. Reach out to Moriah to learn more at: www.fmsc.org / motto@fmsc.org.

Kate Williams, Quantitative Research Manager for Compassion International, shares about the reasons why rigor is important for measuring what matters.

Nathan Mallonee talks with Kristen Check, program evaluation coordinator at Water Mission and one of the co-hosts of this podcast. Find out more about a major evaluation project Water Mission has been working on over the past year and what Kristen's experience has been as anthropologist working for a water engineering organization. To find out more about Water Mission, visit http://watermission.org/. To learn about the RANAS model Kristen mentions, visit: https://www.ranasmosler.com/ And here is the website for Metrix Research Group, which partnered with Water Mission for the evaluation project: https://www.metrixresearch.org/

In this episode of the Accord Research Alliance Podcast, we speak with Dr. Stephen Offutt, Associate Professor of Development Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, about development studies at Asbury, how faith intersects with both poverty and development and what existing poverty indices have failed to consider, and touch on the Accord Research Project, an exciting new study Dr. Offutt conducted on assessing the research practices and needs of Accord member organizations. Relevant publications by Dr. Offutt: 1) Advocating for Justice http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/advocating-for-justice/351700 2) New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/new-centers-global-evangelicalism-latin-america-and-africa?format=PB#dZCBGeUDljAEjXbZ.97

This is the first podcast from the Accord Research Alliance. Nathan Mallonee, Kristen Check, and Rodney Green discuss what the Accord Network is, what the Accord Research Alliance does, and why we started this podcast. Email us at ara@accordnetwork.org with your ideas for future podcasts. "Cheery Monday" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/