Elsa Bardález Email & Phone Number

Peru

I have had a diversity of consulting assignments through the years, and I am now focusing in evaluation and research on development and public policy as a generalist, and as an expert on governance and democracy. My latest post was in a history project about Peru since independence. My previous posts were evaluation assignments with GRADE (Grupo de.

Peru

Provided advisory and research services for Prof. Sophus Reinert in connection with a political-economy case study on Peru for the Business Government and International Economy course. The case explores Peru’s policymaking challenges to advance sustainable and inclusive development and economic diversification in the face of a bleak public-management and.

Lima, Peru

Closely with EnCompass/MELS, I led, implemented and performed quality assurance in a qualitative assessment for stocktaking and learning, by USAID Peru and partners, to strengthen strategy and development interventions on citizen engagement.The review comprises mechanisms of citizen participation, mobilization/advocacy and oversight bent on state.

Lima, Peru

Research/advisory services for Dr. Richard Webb's project Historia Económica y Social del Perú 1821-2021.

Lima Province, Peru

Research on governance and democracy: Qualitative research section for ‘Democracy and local governments: effects of the gap between popular will and power allotment in municipal government’ (co-author M. Jaramillo).Evaluation in the development field; other consultant assignments.

Peru

Team Leader of decentralized, mixed-methods Process Evaluation of the Ministry’s novel training implemented through Peru's Civil Service Authority-SERVIR, for the first generation of UGEL/Local Education Management Offices’ heads selected by merit system. Provided policy input on the program and governance/coordination at all Ministry levels.

Lima, Peru

I oversaw the implementation of the three-year impact evaluation of USAID-sponsored Latin America Reads programs in Peru to improve interventions and teaching methodology for early literacy and reading skills (Save the Children/ NGO Kallpa in Apurímac; Ucayali and San Martín Regional Education authorities and Universidad Cayetano Heredia). I was in charge.

Lima, Peru

Policy Engagement and Advocacy Plan for the GRADE’s initiative with the International Development Research Centre, with strategy, guidance and tools to implement and monitor it in research projects and GRADE institutional action and relations.

Associated Researcher -- May 2011–May 2012. Research Fellow: June 2012-February 2016

Peru

As part of the Triodos Facet-Instituto Cuanto team, conducts the executive coordination and supervision of the independent impact evaluation 2012-2014 of Edyficar Project for rural microcredit, besides data collection and overall analysis. The project is part of the International Finance Corporation's Peru Rural Microfinance Program and its joint program.

Lima, Peru

I was director of the residential center for children at risk of the city of Lima's Sociedad de Beneficencia, in charge of issues both of technical care and administrative-organizational management.

Deputy to and advisor for the Secretary General of Peru’s leading democracy-strengthening nonprofit; has a supervisory and strategic-development role in organizational strengthening and program. Directed the public accountability and citizen participation/education areas. Main practical engagement focused on a 3.5-year project on anti-corruption.

Liaised with World Bank; led and co-supervised preparation of the Program for loan negotiations, and edited/wrote/consolidated the related documents.

Strategic/programmatic advisory role. Program management: areas of pro–child-rights democratic institution building, children in post/conflict situations, and internal and partners’ organizational development. Countries: Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.

Abd-Phd, Political Science

Licenciatura, Philosophy

Ba, Philosophy--Humanities