AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC

Strategic learning, research and evaluation (slre): the strategic learning, research and evaluation division is responsible for yielding new insights that can be used to strategically improve ajws's work to advance human rights. Slre guides ongoing strategy management and investigates key questions about ajws's strategies including how we create sustained human rights change and what impact we have had. In addition to designing research and evaluation that answer these questions, slre also helps ajws's programmatic staff seek and apply lessons learned and create innovative, evidence-based initiatives. (see sch. O)in fy2025, slre furthered its work in the following areas of reporting, monitoring, evaluation, learning and research: - slre continued to ensure timely outcome monitoring, data analysis and dissemination, and support for reflection spaces for learning and action. Slre engaged organizational leadership and board in the understanding of ajws's programmatic work by sharing data from our measurement systems.-slre reviewed and refined all monitoring and data collection tools to support ongoing improvements to learning systems. Slre streamlined data collection to ensure clarity of purpose and scope.- slre continued its partnership with institutional giving and programs teams to fulfill reporting requirements for institutional grants and to seek additional funds to support our work in priority countries. Our support included preparing quarterly monitoring reports for existing grants and facilitating project design conversations for new proposals.- slre advanced the work to further our understanding of our grants multiplier model. In fy2025, slre reviewed data from a pilot tool and created a summary of how we work to support partners through accompaniment. Slre made recommendations for metrics to support tracking and evaluating our grants multiplier model.-slre has deeply prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion. Slre staff were instrumental leaders in designing and producing an internal training video on bias and microaggressions for all staff that will be launched in fy2026. Slre continued its partnership with the vice president of diversity, equity, inclusion and racial justice to support developing organizational learning around specific initiatives and progress towards our diversity, equity, and inclusion roadmap. -slre has represented ajws's work in external spaces focused on improving monitoring and evaluation. Staff presented in a webinar on equity in evaluation contracting and organized a panel on feminist systems evaluation at the american evaluation association.