Senior evaluation, research and learning professional with more than 30 years of international development experience, combining global portfolio leadership with deep expertise in evidence, strategy and institutional strengthening.
I work at the intersection of evaluation, research, strategy and institutional strengthening. My focus is on helping organisations clarify what success looks like, assess what is working and why, identify risks and gaps, and translate findings into decisions on programme design, policy, financing, adaptation and scale.
Education is my principal sector, spanning out-of-school children, inclusion, teacher education, education in emergencies, education systems, EMIS and digital transformation. I have applied the same evidence and systems expertise across health, governance, gender and public services in development, humanitarian, fragile and post-conflict contexts.
My professional practice combines global portfolio leadership with deep research experience, including large-scale social audits and surveys, mixed methods, qualitative inquiry, GIS-supported analysis, outcome harvesting and experimental research.
Explore the areas where I have developed and applied technical and strategic expertise across sectors and contexts.
Evaluation strategy and governance, applied and implementation research, mixed methods, impact and sustainability studies, outcome harvesting, evidence synthesis and research ethics.
Theory of change, results frameworks, indicator design, portfolio monitoring, data quality, verification, organisational learning and adaptive management.
Evidence-based planning, strategic planning, institutional capacity strengthening, partner performance, policy dialogue and knowledge translation.
Out-of-school children, teacher education, inclusion, education in emergencies, education systems, EMIS and learner-level data.
Maternal and child health, health-service access, social audits, service delivery, evidence-to-action and public accountability.
Local governance, citizen participation, gender-based violence, accountability, community monitoring and institutional learning.
EMIS interoperability, child-level data, dashboards, early-warning approaches and data quality for more inclusive systems.
Whole-of-system digital transformation, DHIS2 for Education, responsible data use and evidence needs for AI-enabled education.
Thought-leadership frameworks, thematic studies, technical guidance, publications and knowledge products linked to policy and practice.
Leads the Evaluation and Learning pillar within EAA's centralised M&E Directorate, covering evaluation and applied research, evidence synthesis, portfolio learning, knowledge products and management use of findings.
Led programme-level M&E across 113 projects with 51+ partner organisations in 58+ countries, strengthening results architecture, monitoring, data quality, evaluation, research and partner capability.
Spearheaded an evidence-led framework and knowledge suite spanning system transformation, inclusion, Zero OOSC, sustainability, capacity strengthening, digital transformation and results measurement.
Contributed to approaches linking learner-level data, EMIS interoperability, dashboards and early-warning analysis to better identify and support children who are out of school or at risk of exclusion.
Led repeated national and subnational social audits and linked surveys across 100+ districts and 50,000+ households per cycle, supported by extensive focus groups and key-informant inquiry.
Led monitoring, evaluation and research for major USAID teacher-education programmes, supporting teacher policy, institutional reform, early-grade learning and education-management data systems.
Directed Cross River State research and evidence-to-action work using repeated social audits, participatory analysis, scorecards and institutional capacity strengthening linked to planning and budget processes.
Led mixed-method research on health-service performance and community experience, combining field research with government engagement and evidence-use processes.
EAA/EAC representative in annual meetings, workshops, quarterly exchanges and country engagement, with particular attention to Data and Evidence.
Contributor to co-development of a DTC Strategy Lab on responsible AI-enabled education, including evidence, ethics, accountability, financing and system interdependencies.
Primary author and speaker on data integration for Zero Out-of-School Children, with continued technical engagement on EMIS interoperability and inclusive education data systems.
Presenter and contributor on teacher education, institutional capacity, Liberia's teacher workforce, low/no-tech learning and education recovery, resilience and peace.
I welcome conversations on evaluation and learning, global education, applied research, evidence-informed strategy, institutional strengthening and education data systems.