Joe Savage Email & Phone Number

Billund Municipality, Region Of Southern Denmark, Denmark

I’m proud to be part of the LEGO Foundation's leadership team, where we focus on creating real, lasting change for children around the world. My team is responsible for designing and managing a thoughtful and impact focused portfolio, understanding what’s working (and what’s not), and using what we learn to keep improving how we support children and their.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

As an Initiative Lead, I had the privilege of working with three teams that designed and delivered the LEGO Foundation's global teacher professional development initiatives alongside our partners. This supporting teachers in countries like Uganda, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh with high-quality training, helping refugee children and teachers integrate.

Billund, Denmark

I was part of the Evidence Team, where I worked to make sure we were learning and improving. This included supporting initiatives to build stronger evidence and learning approaches, weaving a learning mindset into the LEGO Foundation’s COVID-19 response, and exploring how we could make our work more flexible and responsive.

London, United Kingdom

I led Integrity's work across Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning and sat on the company's Executive Management Committee. This role involved working closely with Integrity's in-house MEL experts, key consultants and partners to grow Integrity's MEL offering. I led the technical design of Integrity's approach to the CSSF Global MEL programme, which.

London, United Kingdom

I provided technical support to the provision of Evidence and Learning Services to the FCO managed Prosperity Fund, focusing on the development of a Learning Strategy and Plan for this £1.2 billion global portfolio of projects. I also managed Integrity's monitoring and evaluation activities on the Deepening Democracy Programme in Kenya (DFID) was the.

London, United Kingdom

During this time I managed the evaluation of the Somalia Stability Fund (DFID) for Integrity and the mid-term review of the Joint Programme for Local Governance and Decentralised Services in Somalia (UNDP). I led the tecnical design of the second phase of the Somalia Monitoring Programme (now the Learning and Monitoring Programme - Somalia) and co-designed.

Bangladesh

This was was a follow-up to my previous role as Head of the Research, Evaluation and Learning Unit of the DFID funded Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction project (Jan 2013 - Sep 2014). I provided ongoing technical guidance to the Unit, which included quality assuring research, undertaking quantitative data analysis with SPSS, report writing, and.

UK And Kenya

I worked with Restless Development, the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and grantee organisations led by young people across Africa, Asia and Europe to develop a theory of change and MEL system for Restless Development's capacity building programme. This system was tailored to the capacity of the grantees and the resources of the programme. This combined.

Bangaldesh

I led the establishment of the Research, Evaluation and Learning Unit on the £67 million DFID funded Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction programme. This included managing the mid-stage design and delivery of a mixed-methods research programme and overseeing the roll-out of an enhanced communications and reporting strategy. Over this time, I supported.

Pakistan

Following on from my role guiding the roll-out of Results Based Management systems at Trócaire Pakistan, I led the design and delivery of an end-term process evaluation of Trócaire's Abolition of Bonded Labour programme which was funded by Irish Aid. This included field research in Sindh and Punjab and coordinating research teams in both locations.

Pakistan

I led the set-up of Trócaire's results based management system and managed its roll-out for the early recovery programme following the 2010 floods and in response to further floods in 2011. I worked with programme teams to adapt Sphere standards and Humanitarian Accountability Principles into Trócaire Pakistan's approach. Furthermore, I collaborated with.

Pakistan

I managed ACTED's M&E teams in Khyber Pakthunkwa, Punjab and Sindh during the response to the 2010 floods.There was a particular emphasis on completing rapid needs assessments; monitoring of both WASH and cash for work activities; and working as part of wider NGO networks including Alliance 2015. Key donors included DFID, ECHO and USAID.

UK

I worked on a number of theory driven programme evaluations and research studies, including the mixed method outcome evaluations of the Adults facing Chronic Exclusion and Challenge and Support programmes. This combined process evaluations with impact measurement and cost-benefit analysis.

Malawi

I worked on a number of studies, including qualitative research into the relationship between Malawi's emerging extractive industry, migration and HIV transmission, the status of Zimbabwean migrants in Malawi and a review of health rights.

Master'S Degree, Social Policy And Planning

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology And Social Policy