Over the past twelve years, I have worked with governments, bilateral and multilateral organizations, foundations, NGOs, and policy institutes as a senior monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) expert. I have led global and country-level assignments, with particular experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
My areas of expertise are education, civil society, adolescent education and health interventions, gender, and global governance of education, as well as the generation of evidence and facilitation of co-created learning for program adaptation. I have led and conducted assignments drawing on mixed-methods, longitudinal, and quasi-experimental designs; impact, program, and theory-based evaluations; political economy analyses; and qualitative and participatory methods. I also specialize in ethical and context-sensitive data collection with children, adolescents, and vulnerable groups.
I have conducted extensive in-person and remote data collection at the global level and country-level, including with stakeholders in countries including Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, DRC, Egypt, The Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Uganda, among others.
A sample of the organizations I have worked with as a MERL consultant is listed below. Example evaluation reports and products are available upon request.
- Global Partnership for Education – Education systems, program strategy and adaptation, portfolio evaluations. and reviews
- FCDO/DFID – Gender, adolescents, mixed-methods evaluation
- Oxfam Denmark: Education advocacy, civil society, policy reviews and evaluations
- Porticus Foundation — Education, MEL, organizational learning
- Aga Khan Foundation – Teacher training, gender-responsive pedagogy, action research
- UNGEI — Girls’ education, qualitative research, strategy design
- UNICEF — Adolescent health, education, and WASH services
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — Multilateral performance, strategy evaluation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Adolescent health, economic empowerment, advocacy evaluation
- Children’s Investment Fund Foundation – Maternal, sexual, and reproductive health of adolescents
- Dubai Cares Foundation — Girls’ education, portfolio evaluation
- World Food Programme — School feeding and country-level programs
- Girl Effect— Adolescent girls, gender clubs in schools
- Norwegian Refugee Council — Displacement, protection and humanitarian response
