Assistant professor receives $1.7 million award from U.S. Department of State
Giovanni Dazzo, an assistant professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, received a $1.7 million grant award from the United States Department of State for his research project, “Promoting Rights-Based Evaluation (PRE).”
For this project, Dazzo and co-principal investigator Robin Lin, a professor at Michigan State University, will form a cohort of international co-researchers to examine how funding agencies can implement funding decisions using a locally led and community-informed approach.
“This project builds on my previous work as it provides an opportunity to continue conducting participatory research and evaluation with human rights activists and communities who have experienced rights violations,” Dazzo said. “It’s an opportunity for funders to take a more culturally responsive and decolonizing approach to evaluate their programs and to then use this evidence to further ground their funding decisions through community values.”