Rebecca Tiessen

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Rebecca Tiessen
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Rebecca Lee Tiessen

1970 (age 53–54)
Leamington, Ontario, Canada
OccupationAcademic

Rebecca Tiessen (b. 1970) is a Canadian academic whose work focuses on international development and gender. She assisted Global Affairs Canada in developing tools to measure the effectiveness of development projects. Her work typically evaluates whether development strategies utilized by bureaucracies can be transformational or whether change within systems is hampered and requires an outside structure to be effective. She served as chair of international development studies and director of the Centre for African Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia at Dalhousie University from 1999 until 2007. That year, she became an associate professor of sociology at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. She joined the faculty of the University of Ottawa in 2013 and is currently a full professor and director of their Gender, Peace, and Security Collaboratory.

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Early life and education

Rebecca Lee Tiessen was born in 1970 in Leamington, Ontario. [1] Tiessen was the daughter of Erika (née Penner) Tiessen, who had immigrated as an infant in the late 1940s from Peckelsheim  [ de ], Germany to Canada. Erika's parents, Helen and John Penner were Mennonites and farmed in what is now Point Pelee National Park. Erika married in 1964, divorced in 1981 and raised her daughter and two sons in Leamington. [2] Tiessen obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1993. [3] She completed her master's degree in 1995 with a thesis titled Treading Water: Survival Strategies by Smallscale Women Farmers in Zimbabwe from the University of Guelph. [4] Continuing her education, Tiessen completed her PhD at Guelph under the guidance of Belinda Leach in 1999 with a thesis Navigating Gender Terrain: Gender Inequality and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOS). [5] [6]

Career

After graduating, Tiessen was hired in 1999, as an assistant professor in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [7] [8] Her research focused on Canadian foreign aid policies, and specifically examined those policies dealing with gender mainstreaming and the HIV/AIDs crisis in Africa. She participated in field research in Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe examining the relationships between NGO partners and local populations, and evaluating youth work and study-abroad programs which attempt to promote global citizenship. [9] [10] In 2006, she was promoted to chair of the International Development Studies department and Director of the Centre for African Studies. [8] [9] Thiessen left Dalhousie and became the Canada Research Chair of Global Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada from 2007 to 2013. Her research focus remained as gender inequality and people's security in the Global South, global citizenship, and youth volunteer programs. She continued to conduct research abroad, focusing on countries in sub-Saharan Africa. [7]

Tiessen became an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa in 2013, working in global studies and international development. [7] By 2020, she was a full professor and the associate director of the School of International Development and Global Studies. [11] In addition to her work as a professor, Tiessen assisted Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian foreign affairs department, in designing tools which measure the impact of development funding and projects. The goal was to eliminate the practice of counting the only the number of participants and funding in empowerment and equality projects, and instead evaluate in a qualitative manner whether target goals were reached. For example, an audit looking at global aid funding in Canada from 2018 to 2021 revealed that funds targeted for development in Africa had been diverted for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War. The audit also found that poor tracking made it difficult to evaluate funds spent if recipients of aid met more than one development target. In other words, better accounting of funds was needed to see if goals had been reached if a recipient was both disabled and a child, or elderly and a woman, for example. [12] As of 2024, Tiessen was serving as director of the University of Ottawa's Gender, Peace, and Security Collaboratory. [13]

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Citations

  1. ↑ Tiessen & Huish 2013, p. iv.
  2. ↑ Laucius 2020.
  3. ↑ Tiessen & Lough 2019, p. 299.
  4. ↑ Masters Abstracts 1996, p. 1035.
  5. ↑ American Doctoral Dissertations 1999, p. 660.
  6. ↑ Tiessen 1999, p. Abstract.
  7. 1 2 3 Foster 2014, p. 75.
  8. 1 2 Tiessen 2015, p. 1.
  9. 1 2 MacLean, Black & Shaw 2006, p. x.
  10. ↑ Goldstein, Pevehouse & Whitworth 2008, p. 474.
  11. ↑ Otto & Paras 2020.
  12. ↑ Robertson 2023, p. A3.
  13. ↑ Aggestam & True 2024, p. ix.

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