Lillie Ris Email & Phone Number

• Lillie’s consulting practice spans from planning processes to evaluating impacts, with a focus on using data to inform decision-making throughout. Selected projects include: STRATEGIC PLANNER:
• Engage a broad range of stakeholders in participatory planning processes through facilitated meetings, one-on-one discussions, web-based mechanisms, and other forums, and prepare constituents to measure progress.
• Developed M&E strategy for UN Peacebuilding Fund's country program in The Gambia. Facilitated process of strengthening the quality and coherence of PBF The Gambia project results frameworks in collaboration with M&E.
• Led mid-term progress assessment of UNDP’s Preventing and Responding to Violent Extremism in Africa: A Development Approach. Subsequently led development of an overarching M&E framework for the project.
• Conducted end of project assessment of UNDP’s Capacity for Impact Measurement of PVE.
• Led evaluation of USAID-funded community stabilization programming in Lebanon.

Cambridge, MA

Cambridge Concord Associates (CCA) is a mission-driven consulting practice specializing in strategic planning, governance assessment and design, one-to-one leadership support and development, and evaluation. We work with for-profit organizations that are committed to increasing their social impact. We have a strong track record working with organizations.

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA) is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CDA improves the effectiveness of peacebuilding, development, humanitarian organizations and corporations working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.Through its unique collaborative learning approach, CDA combines rigorous.

Istanbul, Turkey

ARK is a research, conflict transformation and stabilisation consultancy that supports local communities in conflict and fragile areas. As M&E Lead, Lillie supported project effectiveness by managing evidence-based assessment, design, monitoring, evaluation and learning for programming in Syria and the MENA region.

Besa is a social enterprise committed to catalysing significant change on strategic issues in places experiencing conflict and structural or overt physical violence. Besa utilises a ‘whole of organisation’ approach to our work, which emphasises responses that balance process and results based on technical expertise and experience in the fields of.

Cambridge, MA, USA

Co-designed regional workforce development and civil society programming with the Tunisia country office.Collaborated with Director of Governance and Libya country team during the armed conflict to plan, research, and write a Libyan governance assessment that formed the basis for new programming.Conducted preliminary analysis and framing for new Middle.

Medford, MA

Designed and implemented program evaluation for youth civic engagement program.

Medford, MA, USA

Course work: Design, Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected and post-conflict settings.Human Security including Gender, Humanitarian Studies, Conflict Resolution and Human RightsMaster’s thesis on democracy promotion and civil society programs in the Middle East/North Africa.

Ein AL Basha & Amman, Jordan

Managed US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration-funded refugee livelihoods program as a sub-grantee to International Relief and Development; led team of four national staff, maintained budget, and ensured compliance. Monitored refugee and youth vocational training programs for USAID, BPRM, and UNIDO; developed survey tools.

Jordan

Trained field staff to monitor program outputs and outcomes in cooperation with beneficiaries.Produced program reports based on monitoring data collected from six rural and urban-based teams.

Amman, Jordan

Coordinated documentation for working group on Internally Displaced People.Produced map of NGO relief coverage.

Conducted independent sociological research on the formation of national identity in Jordan.Intensive Arabic language study.

As a sophomore in college I worked with three other students to found, incorporate and fund a national organization promoting student engagement with shareholder activism. Our aim was to provide training, mentoring and research empowering students to align university investments with university principles. As a board member I lead and participated in.

Mald, Human Security & Non-Profit Management

Ba, History

Study Abroad, Development And Social Change

Study Abroad Through Duke In Russia Program, Russian Language, History And Culture.

Education record