Gabriel Lawin, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Quebec City, Qc, Ca

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Work on a portfolio projet on Niger and Liberia:1) Niger Gender Note. Main task is to conduct data analysis and regularly communicating results to the research team including: ( i) prepare the datasets in a format suitable for analysis (ii) compute unconditional and conditional gender gaps across the three dimensions: human development and service delivery; women’s labor force participation and women’s agency, (iii) conduct a decomposition analysis to determine the drivers of these gaps and (iv) provide a write-up of the results along with an interpretation suitable for generating policy recommendations.2) conduct a study on the impact of 2015-16 West African Ebola outbreak on agricultural production and living standards in one of the most affected countries, Liberia. o Assist the principal investigator with the processing and analysis of the agricultural household data, including merging it with the disaggregated Ebola incidence data.o Assist in preparing GIS maps of the Ebola epidemic overlaid with maps of agricultural productivity. o Help write the report summarizing the results of the analyses.

Mali

Work on a portfolio projects including:(i) Sept 2017- Jan 2018: Baseline evaluation of the Lobby and Advocacy for Food Security project in Mali: o Establish the projects baseline values through a comprehensive desk review and field work in the project intervention area. o Conduct field data collection (qualitative and quantitative) to establish the projects baseline value for all results indicatorso Develop and finalize Baseline report(ii) Jan 2018-March 2018: Advanced study of the horticultural value chain in the district of Bamako, Mali:o Comprehensive desk review on horticulture value chain in Mali; o Conduct field data collection (qualitative and quantitative) o Develop and finalize value chain analysis report(iii) Feb 2018-May 2018: Baseline evaluation of Public-Private Partnership Development Project for the Vegetables Sector in the Sikasso and Mopti Regions in Mali.o Establish the projects baseline values through a comprehensive desk review and field work (qualitative and quantitative data collection) in the project intervention area. o Develop and finalize vegetables value chain analysis report(iv) July 2018-present: Lobby and advocacy modeling pilot project for local hunger eradication through participatory evidence-based research in Sikasso region, Mali:o Conduct a comprehensive desk review and field data collection (qualitative and quantitative) to map the food system and the status of food security and nutrition in the region. o Develop and finalize a research report on food security and nutrition highlighting the nutritional status of female in reproductive age and children under 5 years old o Train and mobilize local actors to set up the Common Platform for Zero Hunger; develop and jointly implement a lobbying and advocacy action plan on the platform towards managers, civil servants, local decision-makers and CBOs (agricultural producer groups, women's groups, groups of self-help, youth groups, etc.)

Quebec, Canada With Mission To Benin

Lead the the midterm evaluation of UNHCR livelihood program in Benin: o Evaluate the Relevance/Appropriateness, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact and Sustainability of the program o Develop a comprehensive inception report including qualitative and quantitative data collection tools o Programme the questionnaire in Survey Solution, recruit, train and supervise surveyor team as well as the data collection in Southern Benin o Analyse secondary data as well as primary data (qualitative and quantitative) to develop and finalize the midterm evaluation report

Québec, Canada With Missions To Burkina Faso

o Planned and led weekly review sessions; graded problem sets; administered exams; Provided one-on-one tutoring to fellow graduate studentso Co-Principal Investigator for the impact evaluation of the project entitle “financial services and deployment of agricultural innovations to smallholder farmers” in Burkina Faso. The project provide in kind input credit and extension services to smallholder farmers in two-value chains namely Maize and cowpea. My role in the rigorous impact evaluation includes but not limited to:o Participation in the design of the research proposalo Participation in the questionnaire design, including pre-testo Ensuring that the questionnaire is properly programmed in ODKo Field staff training (surveyors and field supervisors) and supervision the three round data collection in 300 communities (6000 smallholder farmers)o Develop and finalize baseline, mid-term and endline impact evaluation report

Quebec, Canada With Missions To Liberia

o Review and clean the crop cut surveys and agricultural recall survey, noting potential data quality issues and tabulating interviewer effects; o Compile key agricultural indicators including area under cultivation, crop mix, yields, sales, etc.; o Produce tables disaggregating the above indicators by geography, gender, well-being quintile, etc. for inclusion in a statistical abstract; o Provide training to LISGIS reviewing the cleaning and compilation code used throughout the process of transforming the raw data to the finished tables;o With input from World Bank economists and agricultural specialists, produce a peer-review quality report on rural livelihoods, drawing from both agricultural data and non-farm enterprise data.

Quebec, Canada

o Provide research assistantship for Côte d’Ivoire 2017 Economic update on gendero Analyse gender gap in agricultural productivity and non-farm enterprises in rural Côte d’Ivoireo Identify factors that explain productivity difference between men and women and propose policy responses to close the gender gap.

Quebec, Canada With Missons To Côte D'Ivoire

- Prepare a plan for the analysis of the agricultural module of the 2013 employment survey in Cote d’Ivoire.- Propose a typology (or alternative typologies) of employment in the agricultural sector (including an approach to identify subsistence workers), and undertake analysis of the agricultural module of the 2013 employment survey- Analyze how household-level classification based on unit of production matches individual-level classification based on employment module.- Analyze determinants of occupational choice and productivity in agriculture based on the 2013 employment survey- Prepare a note on the profile of the employment sector in Cote d'Ivoire for the chapter on "productive employment in agriculture"- Undertake similar analysis using the 2015 LSMS to assess changes in agricultural employment between 2014 and 2015.- Provide technical assistance to the agricultural component of the national 2016 Labor Force Survey (including ground truthing of the survey instrument and training of the enumerators)

Québec, Canada

Provide training to project team members, loan officers and managers on the use of the credit management tool

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Of Congo

 Assisting with budget making, project design and planning, field staff management, and partner relationship management.  Assisting with designing and refining survey instruments; Ensure survey instrument is properly programmed in ODK Recruit, train surveyors and supervise the data collection; Manage survey data, including data cleaning and preliminary analysis;  Responsible for management of service providers and vendors, such as, Vodacom and Tigo. Attend regular meetings with local government officials, NGOs and academics  Disseminate results via local and international presentations, reports, and publications, to academic and non-academic audiences Liaise with US-based Principal Investigators

Tamale, Ghana

Lead the impact evaluation of DIRTS Project (Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders farmers in Northern Ghana). My responsibilities includes:• Assisting with budget making, project design and planning, field staff management, and partner relationship management, including with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) and with the Ghana Insurers Association. • Assisting with designing and refining survey instruments;• Ensure survey instrument is properly programmed in Blaise and weekly survey instrument in phone device• Recruit, train surveyors and supervise the data collection in 162 communities (3240 Households);• Manage survey data, including data cleaning and preliminary analysis; • Responsible for management of service providers and vendors, such as Fieldata, Vodaphone and MTN.• Initiate the development of new research proposals including the technical design as well as for funding support • Attend regular meetings with local government officials, NGOs and academics • Disseminate results via local and international presentations, reports, and publications, to academic and non-academic audiences• Liaise with US-based Principal Investigators, IPA Ghana staff and IPA headquarters

Bamako, Mali

Coordinate the impact evaluation of the Alatona Irrigation Project (Funded by MCC/MCA-Mali). This include:• Responsible of the project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation • Budget management, around $1,000,000• Developing survey questionnaires;• Assist with the preparation of a system for data collection and supervision;• Hiring surveyors; arrange and provide training to surveyors and data collection supervisors;• managing surveys teams (over than 60 people);• organization and supervision of four round of surveys (computer assisted interview with Blaise software) with households and rural communities (about 3,000 households and 145 villages) to provide a panel data sufficient for the impact evaluation: a census of households, a baseline survey, two follow-up surveys and a final survey with households affected by the project with their control group, two community surveys, a social networks survey and the dissemination of agricultural information survey; Participate in data cleaning and data analysis using Stata;  Coordinate the elaboration of the impact evaluation report.• Communication with Partners such as Millennium Challenge Corporation, Millennium Challenge Account-Mali and International Food Policy Research Institute.

Mali

Develop and finalize Post Distribution Monitoring report on various emergency projects in Gao and Kayes regions

Bamako, Mali

Coordinate field work for the evaluation of Piloting Effective Early Childhood Development Services Project in Mali”. This include but not limited to:• Developing the mother and child survey questionnaire.• Developing an enumerator’s manual• Supervising work to be undertaken by the survey firm, and review all the deliverables.• Designing a methodology for the qualitative assessment, including interview guides, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions in program villages, and qualitative data analysis.

Cotonou, Benin

Evaluating the Rural Land Administration Program in Benin, especially:- Contribute in data collection activities (e.g., finalize sampling design, oversee survey fieldwork, supervise data entry) and conduct statistical analysis of household and community datasets for a randomized impact evaluation of a rural land administration program in Benin. This impact evaluation study is founded by the World Bank and data was collected in a sample of approximately 3,500 households.

Cotonou, Benin

• Centralized and manage economic and social statistics.• Conducting studies to assess the impact of agricultural and educational policies on the macro-economic framework in Benin• Analysis of the economic and food security in Benin• Participation in macroeconomic forecasting and budgeting.• Develop terms of reference for missions, studies and tenders;• Member of the Public Procurement Directorate;• Participation of program budgeting in several ministries based on the approach of Results Based Management (RBM).• Participation in the development and monitoring and evaluation of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (CPRS)

Niamey, Niger

Coordinate field work for the Impact Evaluation of the Niger School Grant Project. In particular:•Provide in-country coordination to the AGEPA Niger project and impact evaluation• provide in-country technical and operational support to the national Niger impact evaluation team;• Assist with the preparation of a system for data collection and supervision, arrange and provide training to interviewers and data collection supervisors as needed• Coordinate the design of school questionnaires and all other questionnaires used in the evaluation and their implementation (printing, eventual translation, distribution) in a sample of approximately 1,000 schools;• Participate in data cleaning and data analysis; • Contribute in the organization of the Fourth AGEPA workshop in Niamey, Niger, February 16-20, 2009

Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.), Agricultural Economics

Master’S Degree, Public Economics And Applied Statistics

Public economics and Applied statistics

Master’S Degree, Agricultural Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics