David Fleming Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Partner at Itad leading our work on monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) in fragile and conflict-affected environments.Currently Team Leader for the UK Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Africa MERL Partner, providing monitoring, evaluation, research and learning support to CSSF teams across East and West Africa. I am also Project Director.

Associate Partner at Itad leading our work on monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) in fragile and conflict-affected environments. Currently Project Director for two MEL Units for the UK Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF), providing MEL support to programme and portfolio teams across 10 countries in Eastern Africa and 5 countries in North.

Lead Itad's work on MEL in fragile and conflict-affected environments, specialising in designing, managing and delivering MEL work in the fields of conflict prevention, peacebuilding, stabilisation, disaster response and humanitarian assistance. Lead an M&E Unit for the UK Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) in Eastern Africa, covering 12.

• Responsible for leading Itad's work on monitoring and evaluation in conflict and post-conflict settings, and managing and conducting a range of evaluations and monitoring assignments in the fields of peacebuilding.
• M&E for the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in East Africa – M&E Director
• M&E of DFID’s Global Mine Action Programme – M&E Director
• Evaluation of DFID's Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme – Core Team Member leading case studies on capacity building and risk modelling for disaster risk management in Pakistan
• Evaluation of DFID's Building Capacity for Use of Research Evidence Programme – Core Team Member leading a case study on improving the use of evidence in Cabinet decision-making in Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Liberia
• Evaluation of Denmark's humanitarian strategy – led the Afghanistan desk study, conducted fieldwork in South Sudan, and co-authored the synthesis report

Responsible for: - Managing the business development team and the cycle of upstream identification of bidding opportunites, bid writing, submission and quality assurance; - Contributing to developing the technical approach, workplan and budget on key proposals; - Conducting regular consultancy inputs on programme and thematic evaluations and M&E system.

Responsible for: - Leading the Business Development team; - Managing bid writing teams and contributing technical and financial inputs in the preparation of key proposals; - Conducting regular desk-based consultancy work for programme and thematic evaluations; - Co-managing the Fragile States and Aid Effectiveness Theme Group; - Regular attendance at.

Led the preparation and submission of key EOIs and proposals and provided research and consultancy support to DFID thematic and country programme evaluations.

Copy-edited and translated for a number of academic publications (books, monographs and journal articles) on topics such as language and social exclusion in Europe and transnational migration in Southern Africa.

Austria

Ma (Distinction), Transnational Studies, Overall Grade: 80%

Dissertation: Giving voice to South Africa's marginalised urban poor: issues of nation building, Ubuntu and multiple identities in South.

Ba (First Class), German Studies, Overall Grade 78%; Distinction In Spoken German

Dissertations included: Identity and otherness in representations of Africa on the German screen; Negotiating multiple identities in.