Roberto La Rovere Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Va, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Heading and building PAHO’s Evaluation Unit; fostering PAHO’s evolving evaluation culture, through implementing PAHO’s new evaluation policy, at the Planning, Budget and Evaluation Department (PBE). Coordinating and leading the development of the new evaluation webpage and platform, the evaluation handbook and tools and enhancing the pool of evaluation firms, consultants and public health experts.Managing and coordinating the corporate Evaluations of the Response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Americas; of Non-Communicable Diseases Technical Cooperation (TC); of Human Resources for Health TC, launching the Evaluation of Results-Based Management in PAHO; providing support to World Health Organization (WHO) evaluations; and backstopping and advising PAHO’s decentralized evaluations. Enhancing resource mobilization for evaluation, communication, and visibility of PAHO evaluation and fostering the liaisons with evaluation associations in the Americas and beyond and with the UNEG.

Songdo, Incheon, South Korea

Task managed and delivered to the IEU of the GCF the first Forward-Looking Performance Review (FPR) of the GCF, the FPR countries studies in 12 countries: Mongolia, Solomon Isl., Guatemala, Ecuador, Senegal, Mauritius Islands, Egypt, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Namibia, Georgia, Grenada, and the final draft of the first GCF evaluation policy in June 2019. Also contributed to the Readiness and the Environmental and Social Safeguards evaluations, which were also completed in 2019. The GCF is a multilateral fund created to contribute to global efforts to combat climate change and to achieve the aims of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Paris Agreement.As Advisor for Corporate and Thematic Evaluations, led and managed the evaluation work stream of the Independent Evaluation Unit, contributing to strategic evaluations of the GCF, managing teams of staff and external experts, engaging with a diversity of stakeholders at regional, country and local level in developing, planning, conceiving, implementing and delivering evaluations, generating lessons and identifying areas of improvement and making recommendations, internally and externally to the GCF secretariat and programme/project/activities to improve designs, projects and portfolios.

Greater New York City Area

Led design, plan, implementation and reform of Independent Country Programme evaluations (ICPE, formerly: Assessment of Development Results), managed: Niger, Djibouti, Cote d’Ivoire, Algeria, Gabon, Uruguay, Republica Dominicana / Haiti, Kenya (and Ethiopia), in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Mexico, Chile, Congo); knowledge sharing and developing partnerships; global outreach (conferences, briefs, publications); fostering National Evaluation Capacities development; editor of 2011 and 2013 NEC proceedings, editor of IEO Evaluation Occasional Papers; systematic reviews. Contributed to other evaluations on aspects of aspects of Human Rights, Governance, Post crisis/conflict countries, MDGs, Gender, Environment and Poverty and emergency countries on humanitarian work (Syria, East Africa, Dominican Rep./Haiti).Partnerships management, knowledge sharing, contribution to UNEG, NONIE evaluation networks, EES (European), AfrEA (African network), FIFE (Francophone network), RELAC (Latina American network), etc.Managed: planning, quality assurance, corporate support to management; panel on MDG-Fund global evaluation, strategic studies, GEF/ REDD+ evaluations and reviews. Regional Evaluation Coordinator for Arab States region. Collaboration with Every Drop Matters initiative and Coca Cola to design M&E and ESIA systems of UNDP community based water management, governance, sanitation and stewardship.Environment, climate change resilience, energy, disaster risk reduction themes in evaluations I managed: human rights, energy portfolio, social policies, risk reduction, permits, laws and regulatory frameworks. Wind and solar energy; mining; energy sovereignty, waste management and sanitation, exposure to toxic wastes at sites at risk of contamination, environmental permitting, biodiversity, protected areas, water resource management, gender, forestry, fisheries, impacts on indigenous people and rights, green economy, impacts on multidimensional poverty.

Mexico (Global) And Ethiopia (Regional)

Leading CIMMYT’s impact assessment (IA) and evaluation activities; developing approaches to analyze technology adoption, diffusion, and impacts on poverty and livelihoods. Priority setting to ensure that technology design, development and dissemination contribute effectively to CIMMYT’s mission; promoting an IA culture through the center and its main partners. - Organized workshops, training, teaching conferences for staff and partners; developed impact culture for CIMMYT and partners, and delivered teaching on IA and resource economics in seven countries- Publications and reviews in economics, evaluation, and IA topics- Developed guidelines for socio-economic and IA data management, and communication.- Develoed spatial metadata and knowledge system for poverty, livelihoods, economic data.- Fundraising, networking, project development; designing, and (co)leading multi-million $ projects.- Leading IA and M&E projects for international foundations, in Africa, the Middle East and Mexico.- Impact Assessment and targeting studies (ex-post, ex-ante, environmental & social/poverty impacts. - IA and M&E of Sasakawa/SG2000 activities in Africa (2006-10): with late Dr. Norman Borlaug http://sg2000ia.cimmyt.org ; http://blog.cimmyt.org/?p=2739 - IA and M&E of Climate / Drought Tolerant Maize (2007-11): 13 countries in East, Southern, West Africa- Supervision and mentoring of degree and non-degree students.Focal point for Performance Measurement System and impact culture & evaluation, for Institutional Learning and Change Initiative of the CGIAR (ILAC), to advance Evaluation practices for learning

Aleppo, Syria

Khanasser Valley Integrated Research Site, ‘An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Land Management in Dry Areas’. Integrated projects aimed at ex-ante of impact of agricultural technologies, targeting to beneficiaries, identifying sustainable solutions (policies, investments) for improved rural livelihoods in marginal dry areas of ICARDA region. Developing, up-/out-scaling integrated problem-solving approach (toolbox) to projects in dry areasDeveloping priority setting strategy to 2010 for ICARDAAdvising on poverty mapping study of ICARDA in SyriaDeveloping commissioned papers and vision for targeting research to poverty within ICARDA strategyLiasing with local NARS to enhance technology transfer, adoption, and impact; international research institutions on quali-quantitative analytical tools; and international organizations for project development2004 onwards: Challenge Program on Water and Food for the Karkheh River Basin in Iran

Wageningen, The Netherlands

Developed bio-economic method to forecast impacts of food shortages on different vulnerable groups depending on policies, technological change.Quantified contribution of livestock production in terms of efficiency, food security, ecological sustainability, and livelihoods of smallholders in semi-arid agro-ecosystemsAnalysed agro-ecological implications of livestock development, to monitor impacts of resource management options and policy decisionsDeveloped interfaces between mathematical models (in the GAMS language), explorative land use planning, and GIS, for scenario analysis.

Niamey, Niger

Research Fellow (Development Economist)Project on expected impacts of integrating livestock and crops as conditions to ensure food and economic security by intensification.Evaluated contribution of livestock under demographic pressure and intensification in terms of human welfare and agro-ecological sustainabilityEstablished an information resource based on ILRI data to produce a tool aimed at GIS-based (multicriteria, bio-economic) land use planning.Updated ecological & socio-economic information on livestock and resource management

Reposa Project, Guapiles, Costa Rica

Risk assessment‘REsearch Programme On Sustainability in Agriculture’, a co-operation between local, eco-regional, and international research organisations.Analysed and evaluated impacts of local agricultural risks on farm economic and natural resources, and on land use practices. Developed and carried out a land use planning study based on innovative PRA integrating workshop and questionnaires on farming objective risk and management tools and farmers’ subjective risk attitudes.Updated agro-socio-economic database in partnership with government and R&D institutions, analysing impacts of risk on incomes and livelihoods

Msc, Phd, Development Economics

Activities and Societies: I-SOW, KLV I-SOW (International Student Organization - Wageningen) founder and president

Volunteer, Nature Conservation, N.A.

Activities and Societies: Turtle Conservation, Guerrero State, Mexico, 2001 and 2006 (volunteer work), and Turkey 2004 Turtle.

Msc, Phd, Agricultural Sciences, Development Economics (With Wur)

High School Diploma Scientific Lyceum

Phd Natural Resource Economics And Systems, Agriculture, Environment, Economics

Natural Resource And Development Economics And Agricultural System, Environment, Economics, Agricultural Sciences And Environment

Erasmus Programme, Biology, Land Use Planning, Computing

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