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New York City Metropolitan Area

Case studies on shock responsive social protection in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania and Somalia

South Tarawa, Kiribati

Working together with the P4SP programme providing support to the Government of Kiribati on expanding their monitoring and evaluation of their social protection programme.

Uganda

Team Leader of the strategic review of the Expanding Social Protection 2 programme of the Government of Uganda supported by UK's FCDO and the Embassy of Ireland.

London, England, United Kingdom

As part of a wider package of support delivered by the Humanitarian Development Partnership supported the LUMOS team at their HQ in London and in Ukraine to put in place a monitoring system as they embarked on their emergency response for displaced children formerly living in state care facilities.

New York, United States

Review of UNICEF's support for the National COVID lockdown response. The focus of the response included interventions in Child Protection including for migrant children especially from Brazil and education sectors and innovative use of media. Review based on in-depth and group interviews, and reviews of programme documents and wider review of response.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Part of the team revamping UNICEF’s global approach to tracking results at output and outcome level including training at country level for the purpose of clearer global level reporting. Coordination of the development of the UNICEF global social welfare workforce strategy. Coordination of the development of the Generation Unlimited strategy, a $300.

Nairobi

I worked on the followingOxford Policy Management (UK); team leader on the evaluation of the DfID Hunger and safety-net programme.Kimetrica (Kenya); review of log frame and indicators for PRIME, a USAID funded programme focussing on job creation for pastoralists in Ethiopia.The Economic Policy Research Institute (South Africa); a) fiscal space analysis for.

Ethiopia

Working closely with the UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia I coordinate UNICEF Ethiopa's research, evaluation, social policy and development outcome monitoring agendas for our team of 400 plus staff collectively managing $US150 million per year. Actions include facilitating a) the dialogue around research questions and design options; b) ensuring the best.

Kenya

Reporting to the UNICEF representative I helped build back UNICEF Kenya’s credibility following many years of unimaginative programming following a hard hitting audit in the early 1990s that had led to a ten year decline in the size and influence of UNICEF Kenya. This involved management of approximately 150 staff and the revitalization of the programme.

Nepal

I was part of the organizing team for high level South Asia summits on children’s rights, aimed at forging stronger partnerships between civil society, the private sector and governments. This included preparing the first ever Atlas of South Asian Children and the follow-up Atlas of South Asian Youth. www.devinfo.info/galleries/southasiayouthatlas. A.

New York

Management of global level evaluations commissioned by the Executive Director notably evaluations of country EPI programmes, the global evaluation of growth monitoring and the evaluation of UNICEFs emergency response function. I was part of the core team facilitating in-house capacity building in monitoring and evaluation together with regional offices.

Washington DC

Technical support for survey’s in the field including survey design, training, supervision in the field, data entry, report writing and dissemination in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago and Uganda. Overall coordinator of nutrition analysis and data quality for the project.

Sudan

Carried out economic research focused on trends in market prices across northern Sudan which led into working as an evaluation consultant to UNICEF on the famine relief operation in Sudan 1984-86 resulting in the publication, Lessons Learned from famine in Sudan. Consultant to NGO’s on emergency programme design and evaluation, Sudan.

Somalia And Uganda

In Uganda: a) Project administrator, Luwero Triangle emergency relief project looking after displaced people in the concentration camps in the civil war zone where 100,000 to 200,000 people had recently been massacred. b) Seconded as a project officer to World Food Programme area-based programme in Karamoja region also with project officer responsibilities.

Kings Road

I was the sole employee of a popular fine wine shop on theKings Road, London,responsible for the entire running of the shop for the owners, an entity ultimately owed by the Regional Basque Bank of Spain. During my tenure sales went up by 200 per cent.

M.Sc., Medical Demography

Masters Degree in Medical Demography

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Nutrition Sciences

Bachelors of Science in Nutrition

Secondary School, Physics, Chemisty, Biology, English

Secondary school