Our team
Alejandra Enciso Gijón
Katiana Malagón Esquivel
Alejandra is an internationalist with a Masters in International Cooperation, she has worked as an independent consultant in innovation projects for various sectors. She has advised and trained universities, local governments, industrial chambers, and international organizations for designing, implementing and preparing projects.
Also, she has organized evaluation processes for the calls of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). In addition to the follow-up, monitoring, and attention to auditing and supervisory bodies.
She has extensive experience in the educational field, where she has participated in developing didactic evaluation instruments and redesigning programs.
Katiana is an economist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has experience in Planning, Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Federal Programs. She worked in the Innovation Directorate of the National Council of Science and Technology, carrying out the Design Document of the Innovation Stimulus Program and its Results Matrix of Indicators. She has collaborated as an analyst in Technological Innovation and Social Development projects.
Rafael Godoy Mireles
Ricardo Zaragoza Castillo
Rafael is an accountant from Universidad La Salle, A.C. with extensive experience in conducting diagnoses, monitoring, and evaluation studies of social programs or actions. He has been immersed in the control and registration of the MIR indicators in the Federal Public Administration. In the same way, with the profile of a surveillance entity, he has participated in the conduction of Performance Audits and monitored compliance of Aspects Susceptible for Improvement.
Ricardo is an economist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a Masters in Energy and Environment from Duke University, United States. He has extensive experience in carrying out diagnoses of social programs and in the design and evaluation of public policies. He has coordinated surveys, the cleaning and consolidation of databases, the estimation of indicators, and the preparation of reports for evaluations.
Baseline: Survey collection (based on stratified sampling) in Chiapas and Oaxaca, consolidation of the database, estimation of indicators, and preparation of the report for the Project Accelerating Incomes through Diversification of Heifer Internacional México.
In Mexico, Accelerating incomes through diversification will strengthen agricultural producer organizations in the beef and milk value chains in Chiapas and Oaxaca. It is based on the Rural Entrepreneurs project supported by Walmart.org. The project works with agricultural producer organizations to strengthen businesses and the ability to move towards the aggregation of products to access formal markets. Through cost-benefit and ranch-level economics training, agricultural producer organizations transform their vision into business plans focused on professionalizing the supply chain, while diversifying their production offerings.
As smallholder organizations gain skills to explore and understand the quality requirements of markets, information systems, and how to dialogue with specialist buyers, they will also develop the confidence to negotiate. The project will support the development of entrepreneurial skills and better ways of working, allowing cooperatives and their members to increase their income.
http://heifer-mexico.org/acelerando-ingresos-a-traves-de-la-diversificacion/
Baseline: survey collection (based on stratified sampling) in Chiapas and Oaxaca, consolidation of the database, estimation of indicators, and preparation of the report for the Project Accelerating Incomes through Diversification of Heifer Internacional México.
In Mexico, Accelerating incomes through diversification will strengthen agricultural producer organizations in the beef and milk value chains in Chiapas and Oaxaca. It is based on the Rural Entrepreneurs project supported by Walmart.org. The project works with agricultural producer organizations to strengthen businesses and the ability to move towards the aggregation of products to access formal markets. Through cost-benefit and ranch-level economics training, agricultural producer organizations transform their vision into business plans focused on professionalizing the supply chain, while diversifying their production offerings.
As smallholder organizations gain skills to explore and understand the quality requirements of markets, information systems, and how to dialogue with specialist buyers, they will also develop the confidence to negotiate. The project will support the development of entrepreneurial skills and better ways of working, allowing cooperatives and their members to increase their income.
http://heifer-mexico.org/acelerando-ingresos-a-traves-de-la-diversificacion/
Baseline: support in the survey collection in Yucatán and Quintana Roo, consolidation of the database, estimation of indicators, and preparation of the report for the Project Women Entrepreneurs (Mujeres Emprendedoras) of Heifer Internacional México.
Mujeres Emprendedoras is an initiative funded by the WK Kellogg Foundation and Heifer International, whose objective is to contribute to the well-being of 230 families in the Yucatan peninsula by reducing the decent income gap by 50% through the development or strengthening of rural-led enterprises by women and youth.
To maximize impact, the Mujeres Emprendedoras project builds on the successful model and framework of Heifer's “Rural Entrepreneurs” project with a unique focus on women and youth. Using its rural business development model in stages, Heifer México:
- Will strengthen a network of 100 rural enterprises (developed through the “Rural Entrepreneurs” project) to scale their cage-free chicken egg production and increase their profitability;
- It will develop 130 new rural enterprises for the production of cage-free chicken eggs.
Projects Type
Diagnostics
An essential element for a robust design of policies, programs, and projects is the correct identification of the reality that is to be transformed. This requires the identification and characterization of the main actors, the dynamics between these actors, and the dynamics with their environment. At Regenergy we promote a systemic vision for the design of interventions, the generation of diagnoses, and the monitoring and evaluation of the achievement of its objectives.
We have extensive experience in the elaboration of diagnoses based on the Logical Framework Method (LFM) for the generation of problem trees, objective trees, and Indicators Matrix for Results (MIR); as well as, for the identification and characterization of potential and target populations using microdata from national surveys and/or databases generated with the gathering of information in the field.
Consistency and Results Evaluations
Consistency and results evaluations focus on analyzing the documentation of the logical structure of programs and projects to verify that their design, goods and services, operation, and results are correctly aligned to achieve the program or project goal.
Impact Evaluations
Impact evaluation assesses the changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention, such as a project, program, or policy.
To carry out impact evaluations, several methodologies are used, grouped into quantitative methods (experimental, quasi-experimental, and non-experimental), and qualitative methods. Selecting the most appropriate method requires detailed analysis before the intervention.
Baseline Evaluations
The baseline evaluation is applied research, carried out in order to describe the initial situation of the target population of a project, as well as the pertinent context, the effects that this information can be compared with subsequent measurements and in this way evaluate objectively the magnitude of the changes achieved by the implementation of the program or project.
Design evaluations
Design evaluations are focused on assessing the performance of programs or projects by verifying compliance with their goals and objectives based on strategic and management indicators.
These provide critical information on the relevance and results in the orientation of ongoing programs and projects. These evaluations make it possible to verify the hypotheses that guide the interventions. Said hypotheses must be properly documented and based on the diagnosis and the program's MIR.
Process evaluations
Process evaluations focus on improving the operational management of programs or projects. They are in charge of examining whether the procedures described in the normative documents correspond to reality to find bottlenecks in the operation of programs. Process evaluations examine whether how things are done leads to meeting the objectives of the program or project and the desired change in reality.
Federalized Spending Evaluation
Conditional transfers of federal resources to states, municipalities, and mayors are of strategic importance due to their relevance in local and federal government budgets. These resources go to education, health, infrastructure, basic services, public safety, etc. Thus, the evaluation and accountability of public spending, particularly federalized spending, is a strategic pillar to promote the adoption of Management for Results.
Socioeconomic Project Evaluations
Socioeconomic evaluations consist of identifying, quantifying, and assessing the costs and benefits attributable to the project that affect society as a whole. The objective of socioeconomic project evaluations is to improve the quality of public investment.