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EVALUATOR PROFILES Independent Evaluation Office
United Nations Development Programme
IEO LEADERSHIP
INDRAN A. NAIDOO DIRECTOR
NATIONALITY: SOUTH AFRICAN
DEGREE: PH.D. EVALUATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4200
Language
English
WITH IEO SINCE JAN 2012
30 years’ experience in the education, development and evaluation sector,
22 of which have been at the evaluation leadership level, with teaching, management and conduct of evaluation experience
Deputy Director-General: M&E and Leadership and Management Practices, Public Service Commission of South Africa, serving also as its Chief Director, 2000-2012
Director: M&E Land Affairs, South Africa, 1995-2000
Educator; 1987-1995
BIO Indran has overseen a significant reform of the evaluation function at UNDP moving it towards full independence, enhanced credibility and an expansion in the scope and coverage of UNDP work. Through the professional model under his tenure, the unit has seen IEO take the lead and full responsibility for its work at the global and country level, with changes evident in the methodologies and approaches towards country-level and corporate assessments, quality assessment of decentralized evaluations and national evaluation capacity. The new policy established an Audit and Evaluation Advisory Committee (AEAC) and an International Evaluation Advisory Panel (IEAP) to enhance the credibility and utility of IEO work. He has substantial experience in evaluation thought leadership, has served as instructor (IPDET) and panellist globally on the subject, and sees evaluation as a key accountability tool for improving performance and governance at all levels, and advancing the development agenda. Active in the evaluation community, he has been a board member of the South African M&E Association, former board member of IDEAS, and led conferences at the IEO and elsewhere.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Evaluation for Agenda 2030. Providing Evidence on Progress and
Sustainability”, co-editor, UK: IDEAS Growth and Integration in the Evaluation Profession: Some
Perspectives for Consideration, AEA 2013 South Africa: The Use Question - Examples and Lessons from the Public
Service Commission, NEC 2011
ARILD HAUGE DEPUTY DIRECTOR
NATIONALITY: NORWAY
DEGREE: PH.D. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4215
LANGUAGE:
English
WITH IEO SINCE MAY 2015
20 years of evaluation experience
Former Chief of Section at the Inspection and Evaluation Division of the UN Secretariat’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)
BIO Arild Hauge is the Deputy Director of IEO. He also serves as the Executive Coordinator of the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG). Following an initial private sector career based in Norway, Arild Hauge joined the UN in 1990 as a JPO in Zimbabwe. Subsequently serving as Head of External Assistance Unit in Swaziland’s Ministry of Planning, he then joined the Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning at UNDP in New York as an Evaluation Advisor in 1996. Between 1999 and 2005 he was an independent M&E Advisor to various UN agencies and the World Bank. During this time, he did the initial development of UNDP’s Outcome Evaluation Guidelines. He was a partner co-recipient of the World Bank President’s 2002 Team Excellence award for his contribution as M&E Advisor to the Uganda Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit (PRSC) programme sponsored by the Operations Evaluation Department. For nearly 10 years before joining UNDP’s Independent Evaluation Office as Deputy Director in May 2015, Arild Hauge served as Chief of Section at the Inspection and Evaluation Division of the UN Secretariat’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), supervising a range of thematic and programme evaluations considered by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly and specialized oversight bodies.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Thematic evaluation of monitoring and evaluation of the MDGs:
lessons learned for the post-2015 era, UN General Assembly/ECOSOC report by OIOS, 2015
Review of results-based management at the United Nations, UN General Assembly/5th committee report by OIOS, 2008
A Guide for Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Capacity of Developing Member Countries to Manage for Results, Asian Development Bank, 2006
Accountability – to What End?, UNDP Development Policy Journal, 2002
CHIEFS OF SECTION
XIMENA RIOS CHIEF OF SECTION OPERATIONS SECTION
NATIONALITY: CHILE
DEGREE: MBA IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MASTER’S DEGREE IN COMPUTING SCIENCES
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4217
LANGUAGE:
English Spanish
WITH IEO SINCE AUGUST 2012
20 years of experience in multinational management, and 10 years serving UNDP
Former Operations Manager of UNDP Chile, 2007-2012
Former CRM Manager of Oracle in Chile
Former Technical Manager of Microsoft in Chile
BIO Ximena Rios is responsible for leading the Operations Section in order to support IEO’s evaluations and other initiatives, as instructed by the Deputy. She also serves as IEO’s Learning Manager. Prior to joining IEO, she served 5 years in UNDP Chile as Operations Manager, leading the County Office operations to be well known as one of the best offices in UNDP’s regional operations, and is a member of UNDP’s Candidate Pool for Deputy Resident Representatives (Program and Operations). She started her professional career in the founding team of Microsoft in Chile, and subsequently worked for Oracle and Ernst and Young where she developed strong managerial and project management skills. She is a certified Ontological Coach.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Management of finance and operations
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Contribution to IEO’s Charter Contribution to ADR Somalia Contribution to Joint Evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness
ALAN FOX CHIEF OF SECTION CORPORATE EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: USA
DEGREE: MASTER, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4220
LANGUAGE
English
WITH IEO SINCE 2009
18 years of evaluation experience
Vice President, Environmental
Consulting, Pöyry PLC, 1997-2004
Associate Assistant Administrator for Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989-1993
Executive Assistant to the Mayor, City of Cleveland, Ohio, 1985-1989)
BIO Alan Fox is Chief of Section for corporate evaluation at the Independent Evaluation Office. He came to UNDP in 2009 after 25 years of experience as a government official and consultant. He began his government career in 1984, serving as Executive Assistant to the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and then Associate Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to joining UNDP, Mr. Fox served as Vice President for Consulting, and Regional Director – Southern Africa, for the Infrastructure Division of the international engineering and consulting company Pöyry PLC (Finland). His portfolio of project management and evaluation assignments spans 50 countries.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Evaluation of Strategic Plan, Global and Regional Programme
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Evaluation of Disabilities-Inclusive Development at UNDP Evaluation of the Impact of UNDP Support to Countries on Mine
Action Impact of UNDP and GEF support to countries on protected areas
management Evaluation of UNDP Support to Conflict affected Countries in the
Context of UN Peace Operations Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Egypt, Zimbabwe
FUMIKA OUCHI CHIEF OF SECTION COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: JAPAN
DEGREE: M.A. DEMOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4208
LANGUAGE
English Japanese
WITH IEO SINCE JUNE 2010
19 years of evaluation experience
Evaluation Officer, OIOS/IAEA, Vienna, 2006-2010
Evaluation Specialist, UNODC, Vienna, 2004-2006
Evaluation Analyst, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 1998-2004
JPO, UNFPA, 1994-1996
BIO Fumika Ouchi is Chief of Section for independent country programme evaluations at the UNDP IEO. Prior to joining the UNDP, Fumika worked for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Bank, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Office of Internal Oversight Services at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Naturally curious about why things work (and don’t work), she has enjoyed evaluation work for the past 20 years. Particular milestones in her learning included, e.g. eradication of tsetse flies from the Sub-Saharan Africa, counter-narcotics efforts in Central Asia, global human trafficking issues, and mechanics of nuclear safeguards. At UNDP, Fumika is engaged in country-by-country reporting on why our work matters in the context of conflict and crisis, ensuring equity and dignity, and sustainable human development. Served as Executive Coordinator for the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) in 2015-2017.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Rwanda
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Kenya, Pakistan Evaluation of UNDP Regional Programme for Europe and CIS Annual Report on Evaluation 2014
HEATHER BRYANT CHIEF OF SECTION Capacity Development and Quality Assessment
NATIONALITY:SWITZERLAND/USA
DEGREE: LICENCE ES LETTRES (M.A. EQUIVALENT)
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4224
LANGUAGE
English French
WITH IEO SINCE JUNE 2012
19 years’ experience in the education, development and evaluation sectors, 13 of which have been focused on monitoring, evaluation and training.
UNDP Nepal, 2001-2012 University of Lausanne, 1998-2001
BIO Heather Bryant is Chief of Section for capacity development and quality assessment. Before joining the IEO in 2012, Heather worked for UNDP Nepal, heading the Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness Unit, where she was responsible for country programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, with a special emphasis on human rights, gender equality and social exclusion issues. She also facil itated the development by Nepal’s National Planning Commission of a Poverty Monitoring and Analysis System. She has designed and led many workshops and training courses on monitoring and evaluation for government officials, UN staff and partners. Prior to joining UNDP, Heather conducted research at the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Geography in Switzerland.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS 5th International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Comoros, Madagascar ,
Mali, Togo
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Cameroon, Morocco,
Mauritania Small Grants Programme Evaluation
TEAM MEMBERS
VIJAYALAKSHMI VADIVELU EVALUATION ADVISOR Corporate Evaluation
NATIONALITY: INDIA
DEGREE: PH.D. IN SOCIOLOGY
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4212
LANGUAGE
English Hindi Tamil Telugu Kannada
WITH IEO SINCE MARCH 2008
25 years of experience in international development policy, 20 of which in evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer,
United Nations team for recovery support, tsunami response
Monitoring and Evaluation coordinator, tsunami response, Oxfam International
Concurrent evaluation and policy support to poverty alleviation programme of government of India and the World Bank
BIO Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu is an Evaluation Advisor with the UNDP IEO. She has 25 years of experience in international development policy, evaluation, and research. She has led and managed evaluations of development and crisis related programmes at the global and country levels. She recently carried out an evaluation of contribution of global and regional human development reports to public policy process and UNDP’s contribution to anti-corruption and addressing drivers of corruption. She is a visiting professor at the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Prior to joining UNDP, she conducted research on decentralization issues and gender in development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Evaluation of LDC Poverty and Social Protection A guidance to enhance National Evaluation Systems for Sustainable
Development
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Evaluation of Strategic Plan, Global and Regional Programmes Anti-Corruption and Addressing Drivers of Corruption Human Development Report and Public Policy Process Global Programme Evaluation
ANA SOARES EVALUATION ADVISOR Country Programme Evaluation
NATIONALITY: BRAZIL
DEGREE: M.A. IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4206
LANGUAGE
English Portuguese Spanish
WITH IEO SINCE FEB 2010
18 years in International Development and Politics, 13 of which mainly dedicated to evaluation, with teaching and conduct of evaluation experience.
Manager of the International Evaluation Conferences on National Evaluation Capacities, 2011- 2016
Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer UNDP Brazil CO, 2005-2011
International Development Advisor, 1995-2004
BIO Ana Rosa Soares, Evaluation Advisor at the IEO, responsible for conducting country, regional and global thematic and programmatic evaluations. She has 18 years of experience in international development, 13 of which have been mostly dedicated to evaluation and national evaluation capacity development. Prior to joining the IEO, she was a Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and expert on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for UNDP in Brazil. Before joining the UN, Ms. Soares was an International Development Advisor at the Centre for International Development of SUNY and other organizations in Brazil, working with bilateral and multilateral cooperation projects in Africa, Europe and Latin America.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Evaluation of Pooled funding and operational services Synthesis of Independent Country Programme Evaluation Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Angola, Chile, Cuba
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Evaluation of Strategic Plan, Global and Regional Programmes Joint Evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness Conference on National Evaluation Capacities in 2011, 2013 and
2015 Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Armenia, Angola,
Costa Rica Evaluation of UNDP Regional Programme for Latin America and
Caribbean
ROBERTO LA ROVERE
EVALUATION ADVISOR COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: ITALY
DEGREE: PH.D. DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4211
LANGUAGE
English Spanish French Italian Arabic (spoken)
WITH IEO SINCE APRIL 2011
15 years evaluation experience and 10 years in research for development and impact
Former Impact and Evaluation coordinator at Consultative Group on Intern. Agricultural Research based in Middle East (Syria), W. Africa (Niger), Mexico and Ethiopia, 2002-2011
Former, academic at Universities of Bologna (IT) and Wageningen (Netherlands), 1995-2001
BIO Roberto La Rovere, PhD, Development Economist and Evaluation Advisor at the IEO of UNDP. He manages country programme and other evaluations, mostly in French and Spanish-speaking countries, and since 2015 has led the process, planning, and methodology of Independent Country Programme Evaluations and their reform. He brings more than 15 years impact assessment and evaluation experience, including in research for development, having worked for a decade in the CGIAR system (research in agriculture and environment for development) based in the Middle East, in Central and Latin America, and in various locations in Africa. He is author of more than 70 publications, half of which are international peer-reviewed journal papers as well as books and book chapters in International Development.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Co-lead Independent Country Programme Evaluations and reform
(2015–May 2017) Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Chile, Cuba,
Guatemala, Mali, Mexico, Paraguay
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Congo, Djibouti, Ivory
Coast, Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea Stryk, R., La Rovere et al., 2016. UNEG Working Paper “Evaluation
Use in the UN System” www.unevaluation.org/use-of-evaluation La Rovere et al. 2013 Potential Impacts of Increasing Average
Yields and Reducing Maize Yield Variability in Africa, Food Policy, vol. 43
RICHARD JONES EVALUATION ADVISOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT
NATIONALITY: UNITED KINGDOM
DEGREE: M.A. IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4204
LANGUAGE
English
WITH IEO SINCE JUNE 2016
17 years of development and evaluation experience
8 years of banking and finance experience
Former local planning and budgeting expert, 2+ years for DFID, UK Equip-Tanzania programme
Former Chief Technical Advisor, 4 years for the DANIDA ARD SPS programme, Vietnam
Former Chief Technical Advisor with UNIDO, Vietnam
10+ years economic and development consultancy in the Indochina region
BIO
Richard Jones, Evaluation Advisor at IEO, UNDP, has taken the lead in support to Decentralised Evaluation since joining IEO in 2016. This has included a revision of the quality assessment system as well as analysis of the UNDP decentralized evaluation plans and training of country office M&E focal points. During his 15 years in development, he has most recently worked as a technical advisor in local governance for DANIDA in Vietnam and DfID in Tanzania, developing planning, budgeting and M&E systems for local governments. In addition to his work in systems strengthening, he has undertaken numerous programme/project and country office evaluations for a number of organisations.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Annual Report on Evaluation 2017 Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Philippines, Kuwait, Sierra
Leone Quality Assessment of Decentralized Evaluations
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Annual Report on Evaluation, 2016 Fossil Fuel Fiscal Policies and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Vietnam,
UNDP, May 2012 Vietnam’s poverty reduction policies and projects: A mapping exercise
of the Vietnamese government’s current policies and projects for poverty alleviation. UNDP and the Vietnamese National Assembly, November 2009
DEQA IBRAHIM MUSA EVALUATION ADVISOR COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: SOMALIA
DEGREE: M.SC. PUBLIC POLICY & MANAGEMENT, SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4262
Language
English Amharic Somali Urdu Arabic French
WITH IEO SINCE APRIL 2015
20 years of experience in international development assistance/cooperation programme design, monitoring and evaluation
Former Planning, M&E Specialist:
UNICEF Indonesia UNICEF Bangladesh UNICEF Eritrea UNICEF Somalia
BIO Deqa Musa has extensive experience in international development assistance/cooperation programme design, monitoring and evaluation. Prior to joining the IEO, she worked in the United Nations system at the country level in complex and diverse policy environments in Africa and Asia, including Somalia, Eritrea, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Between 1999 and 2014, as M&E Specialist for UNICEF she managed M&E units, and was responsible for strengthening internal and external (host country) M&E capacities. She managed large programmes, for example, with the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics aimed at strengthening capacities to collect, analyze and disseminate strategic data on the MDGs. Some of this work resulted in the modernization of national household survey systems. She also worked with planning ministries in different countries on strengthening national evaluation capacities. She has successfully advocated for the separation of programme management and evaluation in UNICEF country offices she worked in. At the IEO, she is responsible for conducting country level evaluations.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Kuwait, Namibia,
Tunisia, Timor-Leste, Sierra Leone
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Jordan, Ethiopia,
Somalia
OANH NGUYEN EVALUATION SPECIALIST COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: VIETNAM
DEGREE: MBA IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND M.A IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4219
LANGUAGE:
English French Vietnamese
WITH IEO SINCE MAY 2014
10 years of evaluation experience
Former Evaluation Officer of Independent Office of Evaluation of International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007-2014
BIO Oanh Nguyen is responsible for managing and conducting independent country-level evaluations, assessing UNDP’s contribution to development results at country level. She also served as the Executive Coordinator ad interim for the United Nations Evaluation Group from September 2014 to April 2015. Prior to joining IEO, she worked for more than 7 years at the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome, Italy, where she was involved in numerous project-level, country-level and corporate-level thematic evaluations, as well as evaluation syntheses.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Comoros, Madagascar,
Togo, Congo Republic, Philippines, Yemen
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Albania, Kyrgyzstan,
Sao Tome and Principe
YOGESH BHATT EVALUATION SPECIALIST CORPORATE EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: UNITED KINGDOM
DEGREE: MASTER OF ENGINEERING - CIVIL (WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND FLOOD CONTROL)
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4263
Language:
English Hindi Nepali
WITH IEO SINCE DECEMBER 2016
20 years of evaluation and development experience
Former Head of Evaluation at Commonwealth Secretariat, London
Former Evaluation and Impact Coordinator at International Water Management Institute (CGIAR), South Africa and Sri Lanka
Former Manager – Design Monitoring and Evaluation at CARE International, India
BIO Yogesh has over 20 years of international development experience in leading and managing evidence-based policy, program, country and performance evaluations, research studies and impact assessments. Prior to joining IEO, Yogesh led the evaluation programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London contributing to planning and policy decisions, organisational learning and change at the Secretariat. Earlier at the International Water Management Institute (CGIAR) - in South Africa and Sri Lanka - he was responsible for evaluation and impact assessment of agriculture and natural resource development projects in Africa. At CARE International in India, he established the Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Organisational Learning Unit providing strategic, advisory and technical support to all country programs. Yogesh enjoys working on collaborative programs in multi-cultural settings and has lived in India, Sri Lanka, South Africa and UK, and worked with partner organisations in over fifty countries in Asia, Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Evaluation of Pooled funding and operational services Independent Country Programme Evaluations: Rwanda, Namibia,
Timor-Leste, Tunisia
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Compendium of ADRs/ICPEs Evaluation of Strategic Plan, Global and Regional Programme (South-
South and Triangular Cooperation) Institutionalizing Strategic Results Framework to evaluate the impact
of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in promoting democratic governance to strengthen the institution of parliament and rule of law. Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, London, UK, 2016.
Institutional Strengthening of Credit Union Sector in The Bahamas. Impact Assessment Series, No. 1. Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK, 2015
Strengthening Debt Management in Jamaica. Impact Assessment Series, No. 2. Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK, 2015
JESSICA XIAOJIE GUO EVALUATION SPECIALIST CORPORATE EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: CHINA
Degree: M.A. International Studies (development economics)
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4200
LANGUAGE
English Chinese
WITH IEO SINCE SEPTEMBER 2017
18 years of evaluation and development experience
Former staff member of UN
Secretariat (several Departments)
Former economic affairs officer in Regional Commission in Asia and the Pacific
Former programme manager, UNDP China
BIO Jessica is the Evaluation Specialist in the Corporate Section at the UNDP IEO. She is currently working on an initiative to promote the implementation of evaluation recommendations through a more interactive tracking system. She will join the evaluation teams of IEO to conduct country programme and corporate thematic evaluations. Prior to joining the UNDP, Jessica worked in the areas of development policy analysis, programme monitoring and evaluations with the UN Secretariat. She also has experience working with the Regional Commission in Asia and the Pacific and UNDP country office in China.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent Country Programme Evaluations: Afghanistan, Yemen Evaluation of UNDP Support to Poverty Reduction and Social Protection in the Least
Developed Countries
RECENT IEO PUBLICATIONS Evaluation of the UN Global Effort to promote women police in peacekeeping
operations 2017 Evaluation of the Provision of Rations to the Uniformed Personnel in UN PKOs 2015 Evaluation of the Start-up Phase of United Nations Support Mission in Libya. 2013 Thematic Evaluation of DPKO/DFS cooperation with regional organizations 2011
NATALIA ACOSTA EVALUATION SPECIALIST COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: HONDURAN DEGREE: MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MANAGEMENT, POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF ITALY, ITALY
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4273
Language:
English Spanish French
EVALUATION EXPERIENCE 8 YEARS
WITH IEO SINCE NOVEMBER 2017
BIO Natalia Acosta is a management and international development specialist with over 8 years of experience with international organizations focused on sustainable development, poverty reduction and agriculture. Prior to joining UNDP IEO as an Evaluation Specialist, Natalia served as an Evaluation Officer with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN where she managed and conducted project and country programme evaluations in all regions. During this time, she managed five project evaluations, carried out four country programme evaluations and one thematic evaluation. In addition, she also contributed to the preparation of the Office of Evaluation’s Guidance document for country programme evaluations, and convened the inter-agency team responsible for the United Nations Evaluation Group’s (UNEG) work on principles for stakeholder engagement. Previously, she served as a Human Resources Assistant for the United States Department of State in Honduras where she managed the performance management plan and the health and benefits plan for US Government staff. She holds a Master degree in International Relations Management.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent UNDP Country Programme Evaluations in Latin America
and the Caribbean
RECENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent FAO Country Programme Evaluations: Guatemala,
Honduras Independent FAO project evaluations: Mid-term evaluation of the “Capacity Development for Agricultural
Innovation Systems” project Final evaluation of the “Strategies for Trawl Fisheries Bycatch
Management” project
AMANUEL ZARIHOUN EVALUATION SPECIALIST CORPORATE EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: FRENCH MASTER IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL STUDIES OF LYON, FRANCE BACHELOR IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, LYON, FRANCE
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4274
Language:
French English Amharic
EVALUATION EXPERIENCE 7 YEARS
WITH IEO SINCE DECEMBER 2017
BIO Amanuel Zerihoun is a management and international development specialist with about 7 years of experience working with international organizations in the field of evaluation. Prior to joining UNDP IEO as an Evaluation Specialist, Amanuel served as an Evaluation and Inspection Officer for the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations System, where he conducted and contributed to UN system-wide evaluations and reviews. During this time, he contributed, among other things, to the pilot implementation of the Independent System Wide Evaluation policy mandated by the General Assembly through the QCPR, and to the conduct of 4 system-wide reviews around the theme of evidence informed decision making (RBM, Evaluation function, and statistical capacity building). Amanuel previously held positions in different UN evaluation offices at headquarters including experience at the decentralized level at country level. Throughout his experiences, Amanuel has been involved in the conduct and commissioning of projects/programmes and policy level evaluations, and contributing to strategic planning activities including the development of RBM systems and trainings. He holds a Master in political science, with a specialization in evaluation of public policy
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Corporate evaluation of UNDP’s contribution to poverty
reduction and social protection in the LDCs Independent UNDP Country Programme Evaluation of Tunisia
ANDSON NSUNE EVALUATION ANALYST CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
NATIONALITY: GAMBIA DEGREE: M.SC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4271
Language:
English Swahili
WITH IEO SINCE NOVEMBER 2017
Evaluation Experience 12 years
Monitoring and Evaluation
Analyst, UNDP Zambia, 2009 -2017
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, LandO’Lakes Zambia 2007 – 2009
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, World Vision Zambia-RAPIDS Programme 2006 - 2017
BIO Andson Nsune, Evaluation Analyst at IEO, works with the Evaluation Advisor and the Chief in the Capacity Development Section. Before joining IEO in November 2017, Andson worked for 12 years developing and implementing results based monitoring and evaluation systems in World Vision, LandO’Lakes International Development and Eight (8) years at UNDP Zambia, as well as capacity development of Project, UNDP and Government staff in Results Based Management and M&E. Andson has considerable hands-on experience having worked at project, programme and country programme levels in different sectors which include Agriculture, Poverty Reduction/Rural Development, Governance and Environment & Climate Change Projects.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Quality Assessment of 2017 Decentralised Evaluations Annual Report on Evaluations 2017 Oversight of the Evaluation Resource Centre Revision of Evaluation guidelines and training needs for M&E focal
points
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Has co-managed and contributed to the following:
Final Evaluation of the Project on Building Resilience in Southern and Western Zambia through Community Based Livestock Production and Marketing (2013).
Final Evaluation of the LandO’Lakes Zambia Title II DAP Dairy Development Programme FFP for Vulnerable Populations in Zambia (2009).
Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children affected by AIDS; using community -generated definitions to explore patterns of children’s vulnerability in Zambia (2007).
MAR GUINOT EVALUATION ANALYST COUNTRY PROGRAMME EVALUATION
NATIONALITY: SPAIN DEGREE: MASTERS IN FOOD SECURITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & MASTERS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CONTACT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 646 781 4200
Language:
English Spanish French Italian Portuguese
EVALUATION EXPERIENCE 5 YEARS
WITH IEO SINCE NOVEMBER 2017
BIO Mar join IEO in November of 2017. She is responsible for supporting independent country portfolio evaluations and systematizing and strengthening the related research capacity. Prior to joining IEO, she worked as evaluation analyst in Evaluation Office of world food programme, supporting the planning, selection and implementation of country portfolio evaluations and corporate evaluations. She brings experience on the international development arena from different UN agencies and NGOs.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS Independent Country Programme Evaluation: Guatemala, Angola,
