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Thirty years of evaluation, research and monitoring-system assignments — for governments, bilateral agencies, multilateral funds and international NGOs, across West, East and Southern Africa.

30+years of assignments
13countries
USAID · World Bank · Global Fund · AfDB · USDAprincipal donors

Recent assignments

PMO framework and monitoring & evaluation reference system

2025 – 2026

Port Autonome de Dakar · through Deloitte Senegal · Senegal

Scoping and launch of the arrangement, assessment of the existing setup, definition of the target operating model, roadmap and M&E reference system. Implementation support and training of SNPAD's monitoring and evaluation focal points.

M&E expert PMO Port infrastructure

Project M&E system and annual PEFA assessment

2022 – 2025

USAID Public Financial Management Senegal · Senegal

Led the project's monitoring and evaluation system and adaptive management: design and rollout of the AMELP plan (indicators and targets), data collection and reporting including the baseline, learning agenda, annual planning, contributions to USAID reporting, and delivery of the annual PEFA assessment.

Senior M&E Lead PEFA Public finance AMELP

HIV viral load study

2021 – 2022

USAID / PEPFAR — EpiC project, FHI 360 · Dakar and Mbour districts, Senegal

Led the study: research protocol and ethical submission in both the United States and Senegal, instrument design, supervision of data collection, analysis, report writing and presentation of findings.

Lead consultant Public health HIV/AIDS Research

Global Fund Prospective Country Evaluation (PCE)

2020 – 2021

The Global Fund · ISED / Cheikh Anta Diop University · Senegal

Coordinated the prospective country evaluation team across the Senegalese sub-teams, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, and PATH. Produced quarterly reports and technical notes.

Coordinator Prospective evaluation Health

Impact evaluation of soybean oil monetisation (USDA)

2018 – 2019

Shelter For Life International · USDA Food for Progress programme · Senegal

Team leader for the impact evaluation: establishment of the cooking-oil market baseline, monitoring of prices and volumes, and final evaluation.

Team leader Impact evaluation Food security Markets

M&E plan for the Multisectoral Strategic Nutrition Plan 2018-2027

2018 – 2019

Nutrition International · Burkina Faso

Audit of the national nutrition M&E system, development of the strategic plan's monitoring and evaluation manual, and training of national stakeholders.

Team leader Nutrition M&E system audit

Earlier assignments

Strategic information — USAID HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis component

2011 – 2016

FHI 360 Senegal · USAID · Senegal

Member of the management team and head of the Strategic Information Unit (research and evaluation), six staff and consultants. Support to the National AIDS Council, the Ministry of Health and nineteen civil-society partners: planning, technical assistance, monitoring, evaluation, research and reporting, plus staff training in ArcGIS, SharePoint and M&E.

Senior Technical Officer HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis Capacity building

Randomised impact evaluation of the indoor residual spraying programme (malaria)

2011

RTI International · President's Malaria Initiative · Senegal

Planning and delivery of the randomised impact evaluation of the IRS malaria control programme. Managed a team of fifteen field officers and a database manager, supervised qualitative and quantitative data collection, and produced periodic reports in French and English.

M&E specialist Randomised trial Malaria

Evaluation assignment

2010

Veco · The Gambia

Team leader.

Team leader The Gambia

Market Information System — Rumpi Area Participatory Development Project

2006 – 2008

IBI — International Business Initiatives · African Development Bank · Cameroon

Chief of Party and information systems expert. Design and rollout of the market information system: overall supervision, organisation of data collection, drafting of the user manual and team training on the FAO-AgriMarket tool.

Chief of Party Information systems Participatory development

Programmes for street children and HIV/AIDS orphans

2002 – 2004

Alliance for Youth Achievement (AYA), Inc. · Kenya, Uganda, South Africa

Regional coordination of activities: project development, monitoring and evaluation, database design and drafting of the M&E manual.

Area Coordinator East and Southern Africa Child protection

Monitoring and evaluation for the West Africa Regional Office

1998 – 2001

The Rodale Institute · Senegal and West Africa

Head of the Monitoring & Evaluation Unit: project development, database design, training of staff and partners in M&E methods, and drafting of technical and financial proposals.

Head of M&E unit Agriculture Training

National monitoring system for food-insecure zones and groups

1992 – 1998

Food Security Commission, Office of the Prime Minister · Senegal

Deputy head of the Studies and Information Unit and national coordinator of the ZAR system, covering thirty-one districts. Market and price monitoring, monthly bulletins, design of the market information system and early warning system databases. National focal point for the CILSS / AGRHYMET integrated early warning system.

National coordinator Early warning Food security Public policy

From field experience to a tool

These thirty years of assignments had one direct consequence: they shaped the design of MELR, our monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning platform. The PEFA, ex-ante, OECD-DAC and early-warning modules are not methodological abstractions — they reproduce arrangements we set up ourselves in the field.

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