Dr. Michael Midling Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Direct contract for USDOL CEO/Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy (OASP).

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Chief of Party and Principal Investigator for USAID/Ethiopia on program for: 1) improved management and performance of health systems; 2) increased sustainable quality of service delivery across the continuum of care for maternal, neonatal, child health and family planning (MNCH/FP); 3) improved household and community health practices and health-seeking behavior; and 4) enhanced program learning, and impact policy and programming related to preventing child and maternal deaths. The Transform Program was a $300 million five-year program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for maternal, neonatal, child health and family planning. The program was designed to support a transformation in reducing women's mortality and medical complications related to childbirth and ensuring child survival in Ethiopia. As chief of party (COP) and Principal Investigator for Transform MELA, Dr. Midling led all research related to assessing the impact of this program, including supervising a team of international medical doctors, biostaticians, nurses, and other highly qualified medical professionals. Dr. Midling was principal investigator for five comprehensive reports for USAID/Ethiopia, including an impact assessment of all related US government assisted health funding , case studies on comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care; maternal mortality tracking, twinning and mentorship between localities and health care facilities; evaluations and assessments, one on health in developing regions (HDR), one on primary health Care (PHC); an impact evaluation of the Transform portfolio, and an assessment of local capacity of health monitoring.

Mexico

In the context of legislation implementing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the passage of landmark legislative reforms of the Mexican labor justice system in 2019, Partners of the Americas is working to strengthen workers’ ability to exercise their labor rights by increasing workers’ effective use of labor rights provisions, building the capacity of worker organizations in priority sectors, and strengthening dialogue among relevant stakeholders to improve implementation of labor law reforms. The primary goal of our work is to increase awareness of the Mexican labor reform among workers, employers and union leaders through targeted, innovative campaigns, materials, and tools. We are also working to improve the ability of federal and state government agencies to conduct outreach regarding labor rights and implementation of the labor reforms among target audiences. Our projects are also intended to strengthen capacity in Mexico to effectively implement labor reforms and support compliance with labor provisions of USMCA and national legislation. We support the Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social, STPS) , conciliation bodies and the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration to advance productive labor relations and union democracy and to promote women’s economic empowerment and decent conditions of work for vulnerable workers.

Cambodia, Thailand, (Republic Of) Georgia, Ukraine, Mexico, South Africa, Tunisia, Morocco

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Principal Investigator: Final Evaluation USAID/Egypt's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning platform

Kenya

Lead evaluator for USAID/Kenya's Integrated Environment and Climate Change Project (IECC), conducted in nine Wildlife Conservancies throughout Kenya with an emphasis on understanding resiliency of people and wildlife ecosystems and how the country and its development partners can further contribute a resilient green growth economy.

Zug, Switzerland

Recently completed evaluations: Promoting Sustainable Organic Cotton in China; UK-based "Cotton 2040" Initiative

Nigeria

The four year, $24 million Learning Program provides continuous, on- the-ground, on-demand and systematic support to all USAID/Nigeria’s teams, sectors, and implementing partners on performance monitoring, data quality assessment, impact and performance evaluations, and activity monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) Plans, organizational learning, capacity building and knowledge management.

Dominican Republic

Led task order to provide monitoring, evaluation, and learning services for USAID/Dominican Republic providing evaluation, knowledge sharing, and adaptive management support to USAID’s portfolio including education, at-risk youth, citizen security, and climate change objectives. Engagement and capacity building of local partners and consultants was a key task order objective.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided technical leadership for the nine-country youth employment study in Latin America for the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF--FOMIN in Spanish), which expands access to finance, basic services, markets and capabilities, and fulfils a key social role as a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, the leading provider of technical assistance for the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. FOMIN is also one of the region’s biggest investors in microfinance and venture capital funds for small businesses. Projects to be financed should increase access to finance, markets and capabilities and basic services.FOMIM works with local, mostly private partners, to help fund and execute projects. It provides grants, loans, guarantees, equity and quasi-equity as well as advisory services to business associations, non-governmental organizations, foundations, public sector agencies and financial institutions and, in some cases, private sector firms to support projects that benefit the poor - their businesses, their farms, and their households - throughout the 26 Latin American and Caribbean borrowing member countries of the IDB Group. Financing and/or technical cooperation is also provided through its Social Entrepreneurship Program, which focuses on pilot initiatives with a business approach to increase financing and market access to marginalized rural communities and improve access to basic services.Most of FOMIN financing takes the form of grants, which can reach up to $2 million per project. The MIF also offers long-term loans of up to $1 million and equity investments that can reach up to $5 million.

Washington Dc

Led research for USAID in science, technology, innovations, and partnerships.

Oakland, Ca

Recent projects include the six-year national evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act for the Department of Labor (DOL) as part of an experimental impact study involving approximately 70,000 participants and a multi-year impact evaluation of the Second Chance Act (SCA) demonstration project for the Department of Justice (DOJ), which examines the impact of comprehensive services provided to incarcerated individuals participating in anti-recidivism programs. I have authored or co-authored evaluation reports for twelve other large-scale national evaluation research projects including the Implementation of the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Demonstration project, Technology-Based Learning, Youth Opportunities Demonstration Project, Bureau of Apprenticeship Training in National Quality Child Care Initiative, Washington State School-to-Work, and Job Corps Vocational Model Center Demonstration for Out-of-School Youth.

Iraq

Unemployment, underemployment and a lack of lower and middle class economic opportunity threatens Iraqi security and stability over the medium term. Depending upon the source consulted, estimates for the level of national unemployment in Iraq range between 15-20 percent. Underemployment further exacerbates this problem. The problem of under and unemployment in Iraq is directly tied to the country’s over-reliance upon public sector employment and a disconnect between the needs of the employer and the capabilities of the labor force employers have available to draw upon. The low rate of new market entrants, illiteracy, and socio-cultural restrictions further impede the efficiency of the labor market by restricting the mobility of labor and the degree to which women participate in the labor market. Our evaluation of the Foras program used a survey of beneficiaries contacted via Facebook and email announcements, by phone, and in-person to collect quantitative data on use of the Foras web portal and mobile application from various stakeholders, and semi-structured interviews with key informants, other stakeholders with a sub-group of beneficiaries who completed the quantitative survey.

Latin America And Caribbean (Lac) Region / Eastern Africa (Ea) Region

1) Youth workforce development specialist for mid-term evaluation of USAID's youth workforce development program, which was designed to improve the accesibility of El Salvador’s youth labor market through basic and occupational skills training and certification; youth-friendly labor market information (LMI), career counseling, and job placement.2) Senior Evaluator. Economic Development and Municipal Competitiveness in El Salvador, a project designed to improve the economic competitiveness of Salvadoran municipalities through public-private sector dialogue. Key issues involved crime prevention, citizen security and peace-building financed by the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI). 3) Principal investigator (PI)/Project Director (PD) for a five-month complex research project in Northern Uganda in charge of a team of 53 Ugandan nationals (16 qualitative researchers, 34 enumerators/household surveyors and GIS specialists, and 3 videographers). This evaluation documented USAID's $750 million portfolio investment between 2006-11, intended to stabilize Northern Uganda after a fierce and debilitating twenty-two year conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Acholi (Luo) sub-region, which resulted in the internal displacement and forced encampment of 1.8 million IDPs. The evaluation was highlighted by USAID at the American Evaluation Association AEA annual conference as one of two complex evaluations which it funded in recent years.4) Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to USAID/Somalia.

Jamaica

USAID’s Jamaica Education Transformation Project supports the Government of Jamaica’s education transformation efforts to increase access to economic opportunities for Jamaican children, through an improvement in the delivery system for educational services. This mid-term evaluation assesses the project’s contribution to improving early grade (1-3) reading instruction and reading delivery systems as well as promoting greater engagement, accountability, and transparency in the educational system as a whole.

Geneva Area, Switzerland; Beijing, China

International Labor Organization. Global Evaluation Portfolio, International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor. 2006-2008. The ILO manages multiple complex global and regional evaluations including global, regional, and country-level throughout the world and conducts technical assistance and best practice workshops. Senior Program Officer for Evaluation: Responsible for developing a series of guidelines and other training materials for internal and external use, which are designed to enhance the capacity programs to evaluate the impact and sustainability of interventions, as well as managing many evaluations of child labor projects, including large scale impact evaluations, throughout the world.Managed a global portfolio of evaluation on the worst forms of child labor. Special Officer with Power, Forced labour: Developed technical assistance against forced labor worldwide, especially in China.

Beijing City, China

As director and chief of mission for the first joint official US-China social sector project, and in cooperation with staff from the Asia Foundation and the National Committee for US-China Relations, I oversaw all liaisons with Chinese government and implementation activities with partnering organizations. As part of this US $5 m. official US technical assistance project, I established and directed a Beijing office, developed and monitored indicators and performance measures; and implemented a series of education, training and technical assistance activities designed to: 1) strengthen the Chinese government’s capacity to develop laws and regulations to implement internationally recognized workers rights; 2) promote greater awareness of labor law among Chinese workers and employers; 3) strengthen capacity in arbitration and labor relations; and 4) improve legal aid services to the most vulnerable groups, especially girls and young women and migrant workers.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), International Development Education; Administration And Policy Analysis

Activities and Societies: National Academy of Education Fellow, 1995. American Council of Learned Societies, Foreign Language and Area.

M.A; M.U.R.P., Asian Studies/ Urban And Regional Planning

Japan, Ministry of Education, Visiting Scholar, Tokyo University, 1987-1988. Japan, Ministry of Education, Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi.

B.A., Social Sciences / African Studies

Activities and Societies: University of California, President’s Special Undergraduate Scholar, 1977-1978 France: University of Paris.

High School Diploma, Intercultural/Multicultural And Diversity Studies

Study Spanish language and culutre

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Social Sciences