Pinaki Joddar Email & Phone Number

Development Sector Economist with 20+ years of experience in research, monitoring, evaluation and consultancy with international NGOs, multinational firms, think tanks, research organizations, governments, UN bodies, and other aid agencies# Technical expertise: Impact Evaluation (e.g. experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations); Process/ Program Evaluation (e.g. evaluations using OECD-DAC or Theory of Change or Logical Framework approaches); Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA); Results-based Monitoring; Qualitative Assessment (e.g. Contribution Analysis); Cost-effectiveness and Cost-benefit analysis; Public Financial Management (e.g. Public Expenditure Tracking, Service Delivery Survey, Medium-term Expenditure Frameworks, Outcome Budget, Public Expenditure Review, etc.); Consumption Expenditure & Poverty Analysis; Labour Market Analysis; Fiscal & Budgetary Analysis; Institutional Assessment; Value for Money; Stories of Change; Data Collection (e.g. Household Survey, Focused Group Discussion, In-depth Interview and Key Informant Interview, etc.)# Sector experience: Poverty; Labour Market; Public Health; Elementary Education especially Early Grade Literacy; Early Child Development; Nutrition; Child Rights; Disability; Life Skills for Adolescent Girls; Public Sector Reforms & Governance; Clean Energy for Poor; Unorganized Sector; Social Security; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH); Gender; Women Empowerment# Country experience: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Myanmar, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam, the Netherlands, and United States of America (USA)# 360 degree experience of consultancy: Literature Review; Advanced Data Analysis; Sampling; Quantitative & Qualitative Surveys; Report Writing; Presentation and Dissemination of Research Papers or Knowledge Products; Program Management; Client Engagement; Proposal Writing and Business Development# Trained in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India; Degrees – Master’s in Philosophy (MPhil) & Master of Arts (MA); awarded highest grade for the MPhil Dissertation# Well-versed in descriptive and econometric analyses of data using software (STATA and SPSS) # Co-authored and contributed to several project reports, published research papers in internationally acknowledged periodicals/ reports, and presented in several international and national seminars/workshops # Experienced in multicultural, multidisciplinary, and multi-country work environment

Listed skills include International Development, Economics, Econometrics, Qualitative Research, and 39 others.