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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 elsewhere in South America.

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 million strategy for 50 plus private and public member organizations and their focus on promoting youth employment.

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 increased social protection in Tanzania; b) International benchmarking of progress with social protection in a range of countries for the Government of Morocco.FAO Rome. Coordinating and lead author on a chapter on Tigray, Ethiopia, for a forthcoming book on the influence of evaluation on policy for cash transfer evaluations Africa Child Policy Forum; preparation of background paper and key presentation at the sixth international conference on African Children on the subject of social protection for children. OAK Foundation; strategic review of possible entry points for OAK involvement in building social protection capacities in Africa.

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 fit governance structure for research to ensure end-use of results; b) amplifying the dialogue over potential actions via preparation and follow-through of management responses and production of advocacy materials including policy papers, radio and t.v. documentaries e.g. Investment in Boys and Girls in Ethiopia; past, present and future 2012 (www.unicef.org/ethiopia). Working with Goverment of Ethiopia to improve the quality of strategy notes decribing how results are going to be reached including clarity on the underlying knowldge base on which the strategies are based Pioneering government interest in a national social protection policy starting in 2008 leading to its adoption in 2013; this has been accomplished by; setting-up social cash transfer pilots with a case control evaluation design, commissioning policy papers, accompanying ministers on study tours, training senior civil servants and journalists, and working closely with partners on the strategy development and investment plan. I helped refocus the UN’s work in Ethiopia in the most remote regions leading to the creation of a multisectoral programme focused on improving local governance, social service quality and strengthening livelihoods which adds-up to an example of how the UN can help build resilience to shocks over the medium-term. I have supported Ethiopia's efforts to build their results-based management capacity aimed at measuring and reporting on progress holistically with a focus on budget allocation and linking inputs, to outputs and outcomes from district to national level.

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 portfolio and resulted in funding growing from $10 to $40 million at a time of donor budget contraction in Kenya. Highlights of my tenure included making a UNICEF Kenya a place where top profssionals in their field wanted again to go and work, developing the national social protection policy starting with an innovative public campaign tied to the 2002/03 elections resulting in what is now a nationwide cash transfer programme mainly paid for by Kenyan tax payers; developing the post free primary education declaration sector-wide approach; strengthening our emergency response preparedness; managing the creation of a child protection programme; focussing the WASH, health and nutrition programmes for pastoralists ensuring long-term non-humanitarian funding became the core of the funding for these programmes and strengthened the research output with the five year cash transfer programme evaluation the key stand-out.

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 spin-off of this work was the creation of Child Info now main streamed as a the UN’s Dev Info data management tool. I served as secretary to the South Asia UNICEF Sout Asia regional management team for part of my tenure. I facilitated the team's evaluation agenda including evaluations of polio eradication programmes, salt iodization. I was part of the team helping to formulate new country programmes for UNICEF Executive Board presentation and help manage regional office oversight of mid-term reviews. The job also involved working as part of the team managing high-level ministerial summits for South Asian governments deliberating on Children's issues.

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 including a focus on the measurement of programme impact, coverage and costs pioneering the role-out of sentinel community surveillance. Country level support for programme planning, evaluation and development outcome monitoring; In Asia: China, Indonesia, Thailand. In Africa: Algeria, Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. In Latin America: Peru. I helped create the first UNICEF evaluation database with the notion that HQ would review and give feedback on evaluation quality. I was part of the team that created and rolled-out the concept of the integrated monitoring, evaluation and research planning process.

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 for the UNICEF nutrition programme in Karamoja. In Somalia: project administrator, Darbi Xoore and Darme Ma’ane refugee camps and Boroma District Primary Health Care programme with responsibilities in situation assessment and analysis, EPI, watsan, therapeutic feeding centre management, district hospital rehabilitation and staff training and operations including salaries, infrastructure and vehicle maintenance.

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