List of Projects

2022/23 - Country

As a Senior Advisor for Strategic Learning, I closely collaborated with the MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) Director of the BRAC Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI). UPGI operates in six countries, namely Rwanda, South Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan, two states in India, and the Philippines. The primary objective of UPGI is to collaborate with government agencies and develop an holistic approach to government-led extreme poverty reduction initiatives by scaling and adapting the Graduation approach, which BRAC has developed over two decades, especially in Bangladesh. My role was to provide technical expertise and guidance for the development of the Strategic Learning component within the MEL system of the programme. This encompassed the design of the MEL system and facilitating strategic discussions with the country teams. Together, we identified challenges and opportunities within the poverty reduction governance systems across these six countries, and we worked collaboratively to formulate country-specific systems shift strategies. In addition to these responsibilities, I have facilitated conversation with country team to shape the portfolio of country-level projects. These efforts were integral to the broader mission of UPGI, which aims to make a meaningful impact on poverty reduction worldwide (Funder: Ted Foundation)

2022/23 - Country

Senior researcher and team member on a research project for the EdTech Hub programme on the edtech innovation ecosystem in Bangladesh to understand system-level factors and behaviours that enable or constrain edtech innovations to develop and scale. The research projects also aim at testing the use of system thinking. The research involved collaboration with HundrED.org in Finland and a2i in Bangladesh (Funder: FCDO)

2022/24 - Country

Leading the design and implementation of the MEL system of the Addressing the mental health needs of adolescents Tanzania and Viet Nam project. Set up of the MEL tools and processes, programme theory of change and results framework. (Funder: Fondàtion Botnar)

Led the design and implementation of the training and mentoring support on the use of political economy analysis for designing disaster risk financing policy research studies with the team at the Centre for Disaster Protection in the UK (Funder: FCDO).

2022/23 - Country

Led the design and implementation of an Outcome Harvesting exercise to assess the contribution of the KIAT programme to the strengthening of the quality of infrastructure investment enabling environment in Indonesia (Funder: DFAT)

2022/23 - Country

Led the review of the planning, monitoring, and learning system of Fingo, the umbrella organisation of Finnish international cooperation development NGOs (Funder: Fingo)

2021/22 - Country

It continued to support and provide technical advice to develop the Outcome Harvesting part of the MEL system of the EdTech Hub programme. Team member for designing a research proposal on EdTech systems in LMICs as part of the programme’s research portfolio. Led the design and facilitation of a sensemaking workshop with the programme team and external stakeholders to inform the research design (Funder: FCDO)

Led the design and co-facilitation of a portfolio sensemaking workshop to support programming and strategic decisions by the team of the SPARC programme (Funder: FCDO)

Led the design and implementation of the MEL system (esp. the Learning component) and the portfolio sensemaking protocol of the Najahkom youth employment programme in Jordan which is led by Plan International (Funder: Novo Nordisk Fonden)

2021 - Country

Co-author with Luca Gatti and Nora Bateson of a note on Monitoring & Evaluation of Portfolios of Development Options (Funder: UNDP Regional Office Istanbul)

2021 - Country

Led the design of a sectoral political economy analysis including the design and implementation of a Portfolio Sensemaking of the GIZ International Services programmes in Afghanistan (Funder: GIZ International Services)

2020/22 - Country

Learning lead for the co-design and testing of the MEL systems of the Strengthening the Use of Evidence for Development Impact programme. Worked with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad to design and testing of a Portfolio Sensemaking Protocol to strengthen programme coherence and inform strategic decisions (Funder: FCDO)

Led the review of the programme logframe and the design of a Portfolio Sensemaking of the programme (Funder: FCDO)

2019/21 - Country

Led the design of the EdTech Hub programme MEL system, including the programme theory of change and results framework. Also led the design of the political economy analysis framework of evidence uptake of the programme and a 10 country case studies on the impact of COVID-19 on education systems (Funder: FCDO)

Led ODI’s team for a feasibility study for the Swedish International Development Agency on the status of research and higher education in Somalia in collaboration with a national think tank. (Funder: SIDA)

Led ODI’s team for a political economy analysis of the evidence systems in three policy areas: education and employment, child labor, economic policy and planning in Pakistan. The study has been conducted in collaboration with three national think tanks and is part of the initial phase of FCDO’s Strengthening the Use of Evidence for Development Impact (SEDI) project (Funder: FCDO)

2019 - Country

Led revision of the feasibility study concept and report for the Forest Programme V – Support to Social Forestry in Indonesia funded by BMZ and KfW. Study was conducted by the AHT GROUP AG (Funder: KfW)

2019 - Country

Technical assistance and methodological inputs to the design and implementation of a knowledge system for public policy mapping in Cambodia for the DFAT-funded Polonk Chomes: Data and Dialogues for Development in Cambodia project (Funder: DFAT)

Led a team of international and national consultants to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the DFAT-funded Strategic Partnership on Sub-national Governance Program in Nepal (Funder: DFAT)

2019 - Country

Leading the monitoring and learning work of the policy engagement workstream of DFID’s Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disaster (BRACED) programme and led the production of a case study on the programme policy influence in Nepal (Funder: FCDO)

2018/19 - Country

Contributions to the Support to Indonesia’s Climate Change Response – Technical Advice Component Project with funding from EU and implemented by GIZ, SNV and AHT GROUP AG (Funder: EU)

2018/20 - Country

Leading the monitoring and learning work of the policy engagement workstream of DFID’s Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disaster (BRACED) programme (Funder: FCDO)

Strategic advice and participation in the steering committee of Master Card Foundation’s Learning Partnership of the Youth Forward Initiative in Ghana and Uganda which is implemented by ODI, PDA Ghana and DRT Uganda (Funder FCDO)

Lead researcher to conduct an analysis across ten stories of change produced by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation’s Performing and Responsive Social Sciences project (PERFORM) project in Serbia and Albania (Funder: SDC)

2018 - Country

Research and co-production of a discussion paper with the title “State Capability, Policymaking, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Why knowledge systems matter” (Funder: Helvetas)

2018 - Country

Lead researcher for the production of a discussion paper about the experimental approach and meaning of ‘impact’ of the data innovation lab Pulse Lab Jakarta (Funder DFAT)

2018 - Country

Team leader of a problem-driven political economy analysis of the security and justice sector in Honduras for the Unidos por la Justicia project (Funder: USAID)