Ramya Vivekanandan Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Established and managed the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP), a regional network on learning assessment with 47 members across 26 countries, focused on research, knowledge sharing.
• Led the regional programme and team (4-5 programme staff) on Quality of Education.
• Mobilized and provided technical assistance on learning assessment (through NEQMAP) to selected Asia-Pacific Member-States upon request, including diagnostic support, technical workshops and facilitating access to.
• Coordinated analytical work (primarily multi-country studies) on a range of themes relating to Quality of Education, including learning assessment (through NEQMAP), learning to live together, gender and STEM and.
• Managed communication, advocacy and knowledge sharing of all work in this area, including through web articles, biannual newsletter, webinars, blog posts, infographics, videos, innovative launch events, exhibitions.
• Generated and cultivated excellent relationships with a wide range of stakeholders interested in educational quality (and learning assessment in particular), including GPE, UNESCO UIS, OECD, IEA, Brookings Institution.

Paris Area, France

• Contributed to the development and implementation of the Global Initiative on Education and HIV & AIDS (EDUCAIDS), a UNAIDS initiative for which UNESCO is the coordinating agency.
• Supported Member-States in developing and implementing policies and programmes in the area of HIV and AIDS in the education sector.
• Coordinated Section activities in the area of school health through the FRESH partnership, an inter-agency initiative on school health, and contributed to the development of a generic monitoring and evaluation.
• Led on the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned from EDUCAIDS and other work on HIV and AIDS organized by UNESCO through the development of country snapshots, good practice documents, guidelines and.

Paris Area, France

• Played a leading role in the conceptualization, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of UNESCO’s Teacher Training Initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa (TTISSA).
• Co-authored and led the development of the Methodological Guide for the Analysis of Teacher Issues, including incorporation of technical inputs, field testing and political validation.
• Served as focal point for Section’s work in relation to teacher policy development, gender, HIV and AIDS and teacher issues in conflict and post-conflict settings.
• Promoted and represented UNESCO’s work in teacher education and TTISSA via presentations (in English, French and Portuguese) and in building partnerships with various stakeholders (e.g. World Bank, African Development.
• Led on the establishment and initial round of the UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Served as the primary backstop and provided managerial and financial oversight to education, health and agriculture projects in eight Southern African countries.
• Wrote proposal and secured funding (100,000 USD) for the successful establishment of the Viana Women’s Vocational Training Center in Angola, funded by Exxon Mobil Angola.
• Developed collaborative relationships with UN agencies (UNHCR, WFP, FAO, UNAIDS), bilateral partners (USAID, CDC, PEPFAR, MCC), foundations and private sector partners working on development initiatives in the Southern.

Conakry, Republic Of Guinea

• Provided training to Committee and other organizations working in the field of girls’ and rural children’s education in research methods, strategic planning, resource mobilization, project management, monitoring &.
• Supported the development of a national policy on girls’ education through partnership building.
• Documented experiences and lessons learned regarding girls’ and rural children’s education.
• Monitored and evaluated Committee’s decentralization effort through regular field visits and technical assistance to equity sub-committees, parent associations, and women’s groups in several prefectures.

Mangochi, Malawi

• Documented and disseminated of best practices of project, including teacher mentoring, continuous assessment and community participation.
• Designed modules for teacher and school committee training and participated as a trainer in training of trainers workshops, with emphasis on gender issues.
• Developed data collection instruments (surveys, teacher observation forms, interview protocol, student assessments) and trained data collectors for all project research studies.
• Collected and analyzed baseline and follow-up data for all project research studies.
• Conducted study on the relationship between community participation and children’s learning achievement.
• Provided planning and programmatic support, including development of technical and budget proposals and quarterly and annual reports for USAID reporting purposes.

Dakar, Senegal

• Conducted several school visits and community interviews to examine gender sensitivity of teachers and functioning of school supply banks.
• Analyzed gender sensitivity and presence of appropriate female role models in supplementary readers for primary students and made edits which were adopted by the Ministry of Education.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed, managed, and evaluated training seminars for lawyers, government officials, and NGO officers from developing countries in subjects such as dispute resolution, commercial law, anti-corruption and development.
• Supervised staff of 5 Program Administrators and managed overall program operations
• Prepared training and technical assistance proposals solicited by various organizations, including preparation of budgets
• Served as Focal Point for Institute’s African Centre for Legal Excellence in Kampala, Uganda and developed network of African legal professionals and resources through work at the Centre

B.A., International Affairs

Activities and Societies: Program Board (International Cultural Affairs Chair)

M.Ed, International Education Policy