Lena Taube
Lena Taube joined DEval as an evaluator in 2019. She previously worked at the Centre for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University. There, she supervised a research project on the institutionalization of evaluation worldwide. Lena Taube also worked as a lecturer in the Center’s German and English Master programs in evaluation and as a trainer as part of a university cooperation with Latin American universities.
Lena Taube studied sociology, political science and empirical social research at the universities of Aachen, Cologne and Buenos Aires. She focused on development cooperation with Latin America, quantitative research methods, and good governance. In her master thesis, she analyzed the populations' support for democracy in Latin American countries.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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democracy promotion,
civil society development,
gender,
human rights & human rights based approaches to development,
evaluation theory
- Methodological focus
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quantitative & qualitative methods and techniques of empirical social research
evaluation capacity development
- Regional focus
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Latin America
Evaluations and Projects
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Human Rights in German Development Policy
- Human Rights in German Development Policy. Part 1: The Human Rights Strategy and its Implementation
- Human Rights in German Development Policy. Part 2: Implementation and Effectiveness of the Human Rights-Based Approach in the Area of Action "Private Sector and Financial System Development"
Publications
- Human Rights in German Development Policy. Part 2: Implementation and Effectiveness of the Human Rights-Based Approach in the Area of Action "Private Sector and Financial System Development"
- Policy Brief: Human Rights in German Development Cooperation: Mainstreaming and Effectiveness in Private Sector and Financial System Development
- Policy Brief: Feminist Development Policy: Advice on Implementing Human Rights-Based and Gender-Transformative Development Cooperation
- Policy Brief: Menschenrechte in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Verankerung und Wirksamkeit in der Privatsektor- und Finanzsystementwicklung
- Menschenrechte in der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik. Teil 2: Umsetzung und Wirksamkeit des Menschenrechtsansatzes im Aktionsfeld „Privatsektor- und Finanzsystementwicklung“
- Policy Brief: Feministische Entwicklungspolitik: Umsetzungshinweise für eine menschenrechtsbasierte und gendertransformative Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Human Rights-Based Evaluation in German and International Development Cooperation: Literature Review
- Policy Brief: Human Rights in German Development Cooperation. Aspirations and Implementation
- Human Rights in German Development Policy. Part 1: The Human Rights Strategy and Its Implementation
- Policy Brief: Menschenrechte in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Menschenrechte in der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik. Teil 1: Das Menschenrechtskonzept und seine Umsetzung
- Menschenrechte in der Praxis der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik: Empirische Befunde und theoretische Einordnung
Selected publications
Simon, Benoit; Meyer, Wolfgang; D’Errico, Stefano; Schwandt, Thomas; Lucks, Dorothy; Zhaoying, Chen; El-Saddik, Kassem; Schneider, Elisabeth;Taube, Lena; Anderson, Simon; Ofir, Zenda (2017): Evaluation: a missed opportunity in the SDGs’ first set of Voluntary National Reviews, in: IIED-Briefing No. 6.
Stockmann, Reinhard; Meyer, Wolfgang; Taube, Lena (erscheint 2019): The Institutionalization of Evaluation in Europe, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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